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  DIDASKALIA: Ancient Theater Today
The androgynous Danaos and his daughters implored the Argives to protect them from the pursuing sons of Aigyptos who were determined to marry them.
At the end of the dream sequence, Pelasgos returned with the news that the Danaids could have sanctuary, whereupon the sons of Aigyptos were sighted approaching.
A battle commenced, with the sons of Aigyptos carrying flaming torches and the women cowering behind their suitcases.
www.didaskalia.net /issues/vol3no3/wilmer.html   (826 words)

  
 Coexisting With Islam - Walter Gottesman
The reports in the Western press of Pope Shenouda's plight were, for some readers, their first acquaintance with the existence of one of Christianity's oldest branches, the Egyptian church.
The word 'Copt' is from the Arabic Qibt, which in turn is derived from the Greek word Aigyptos, meaning Egypt.
Aigyptos is the Greek form of the ancient Egyptian ptah, which originally referred to the local creator deity of Memphis, an old capital of Egypt, then later came to mean Egypt itself.
www.worldandi.com /specialreport/1987/March/Sa12756.htm   (302 words)

  
 introduction
The AIGYPTOS database was specifically created to enable the search for Egyptological publications by means of an elaborate subject indexing.
Due to the limited time that was available for the creation of the English version, it has not been possible to translate the contents of all the searchfields into English, so that the entries in several fields, e.g.
AIGYPTOS was developed as a tool to enable a quick and precise search for Egyptological publications.
www.aigyptos.uni-muenchen.de /Hilfe/introduction_n.htm   (2307 words)

  
 AIGYPTOS-Aenderungen
From November 2002 to September 2005 AIGYPTOS has been sponsored by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).
So, with the end of the current project (September 2005) the overwhelming part of the egyptological literature since 1978 will be searchable in AIGYPTOS.
During the progress of this work the english user settings you could formerly choose before logging in are temporarily unavailable.
www.aigyptos.uni-muenchen.de /Hilfe/AIGYPTOS-changes.htm   (493 words)

  
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Subject: anenews AIGYPTOS - A database for Egyptological publications AIGYPTOS - A database for Egyptological publications Dear ANE-members, We are pleased to announce the online start of AIGYPTOS - a database which was created as a tool for quick and precise search for Egyptological publications.
AIGYPTOS can be found at: http://www.aigyptos.uni-muenchen.de or via the home page of the Institute of Egyptology in Munich: http://www.fak12.uni-muenchen.de/aegyp The database was developed from 1990 onwards at the Institute of Egyptology in Munich, Germany and was available only locally for a number of years.
At a time when the number of publications in our field of research increases with every year it is more and more necessary to have access to the latest bibliographical data by means of a detailed retrieval.
oi.uchicago.edu /OI/ANE/ANENEWS-DIGEST/2001/v2001.n024   (620 words)

  
 aigyptos   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
It was created in 1995 in order to coordinate the work and enthusiasm of Slovak graduate students of Egyptology (Charles University) and volunteers from the whole of Slovakia.
The objectives of The AIGYPTOS Foundation derive from its statutes and their realization is regulated by the Foundations's authorities:
The AIGYPTOS Foundation, Safárikova 63, 953 03 Zlaté Moravce 3, Slovakia.
www.iae.lmu.de /iae/aigyptos.html   (425 words)

  
 About Us   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
The word Copt is derived from the Greek word aigyptos, which means Egyptian.
The modern use of the term Coptic  describes Egyptian Christians.
We look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the coming age.
www.studentgroups.ucla.edu /coptic/index_files/Page349.htm   (170 words)

  
 J. G. Manning
Charles E. Jones, Research Archivist, The Oriental Institute in The University of Chicago).
Aigyptos A databank of Egyptological literature, from the Universities of Munich and Heidelberg
The American Research Center in Egypt is a private, nonprofit organization founded in 1948 by a consortium of educational and cultural institutions to support research on Egyptian history and culture, foster broader knowledge about Egypt among the general public, and promote and strengthen American-Egyptian cultural ties.
www.stanford.edu /~jmanning/content/research/egyptology.htm   (318 words)

  
 The Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt,   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
While there are numerous other sects in the Middle East I will foucus this paper on the Coptic Orthodox Church of Egypt, Christianity was introduced to Egypt in a limited form early in the faith's history.
The Coptic Orthodox Church is based on the teachings of Saint Mark who traveled to Egypt in 61 A.D. The name Copt comes from the early Greek name for Egypt, Aigyptos.
While the Coptic Church has flourished and spread around the world, it does maintain its own Papal Leadership separate from that of Rome and is often categorized as one of the Eastern Orthodox faiths.
www.radessays.com /viewpaper.php?nats=MTAxMzoyOjE&request=19587   (265 words)

  
 argos1.html
When Agenor sent his sons to look for their missing sister, one of them, Kadmos, eventually arrived in Greece and started the city of Thebes.
Meanwhile Belos had twin sons, Aigyptos and Danaos.
Danaos had fifty daughters, and Aigyptos had fifty sons, who were commanded by their father to marry their fifty cousins.
www.greecetravel.com /greekmyths/argos1.htm   (610 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
Copt is the European pronunciation of the Arabic Qubt which is a corruption of the Greek Aigyptos.
Aigyptos is supposedly a corruption of the Egyptian word for Memphis which is Hak-Ka-Ptah.
Here nationalism, ethnicity and religion bring further definition, some would say further corruption.
www.thematthewshouseproject.com /religion/coptic1.htm   (974 words)

  
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Does >> anyone know what the the origin of this term is? Gonzalo Rubio replied: >Andrew, it comes from Greek Aigyptos (in Alexandrian times, probably >pronounced somehow like /egiptos/, with stress on the first syllable).
BTW, Don Redford mentioned to me last week that there is a Linear B version of Aigyptos as well (a-i-ku-pu-ti-jo) (sorry I don't have any other information or a cite).
Subject: Re: ane The origin of the term Gebtz - Aigyptos On Wed, 26 Mar 1997, Isidoros wrote: > >Actually, the Linear B spelling is ai-ku-pi-ti-jo, "Egyptian", obviously, > >as you pointed out, from Eg.
oi.uchicago.edu /OI/ANE/ANE-DIGEST/1997/v1997.n079   (1515 words)

  
 Coptic Egypt
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The term Copt or Coptic is a corruption of the Greek word "Aegyptios" (or Aigyptos) meaning Egyptian.
Aigyptos derived from the Ancient Egyptian "Ha-ka-Ptah" meaning "the house of the Ptah".
www.egyptologyonline.com /coptic_egypt.htm   (651 words)

  
 BBC News | MIDDLE EAST | Who are Egypt's Christians?
But the country also has the largest and oldest Christian community in the Middle East.
Egyptian Christians are known collectively as 'Copts', a word derived from the Greek word 'Aigyptos', meaning 'Egypt'.
They trace their history to the first century AD when St Mark introduced Christianity to Egypt.
news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/middle_east/653574.stm   (602 words)

  
 We The Copts WHO ARE WE?
The word "Coptic" was derived from the word Aigyptos, which meant "Egypt" in Greek.
The word was corrupted by the Arabs who invaded Egypt in 641 AD.
The same church has a bright future in serving the Word of God.
www.geocities.com /Athens/Acropolis/4606/history.html   (1634 words)

  
 Act Like an Egyptian - Encyclopedia FunTrivia
The word "Aigyptos" is the root from which the Western name for Egypt originated, but what did the Egyptians themselves call their land?
Aigyptos is Greek and is actually derived from the Egyptian name for the city of Memphis, Hiku-Ptah.
Send the author a thank you or compliment
www.funtrivia.com /en/subtopics/Act-Like-an-Egyptian-219112.html   (843 words)

  
 Coptic Orthodox Church
This appealed to me because of its Egyptian background and I am very interested in Ancient Egypt, the Pyramids and so forth.
The actual word Copt comes from the Greek word ¡§aigyptos¡¨ which was the name for the first capital of Ancient Egypt.
Today the word Coptic describes Christian Egyptians, they way they live, their language, their believes, their script and their art and architecture.
www.radessays.com /viewpaper.php?nats=MTAxNjoyOjE&request=27761   (270 words)

  
 Ebla Forum: View topic - interpolations in the classics?
Then he was exiled from Egypt and fled for refuge to his brother Aigyptos.
He emigrated and reached the land of the Greeks.
Fleeing from his brother Aigyptos, he reached Greece, where he gained power in Argos and ruled over the Argives.
www.eblaforum.org /main/viewtopic.php?t=1060   (2627 words)

  
 Cyprus News Agency: News in Greek (AM), 00-08-10
Opws anefere sto KYPE ekproswpos ths kypriakhs Presbeias sthn Aigypto shmera to prwi episkefqhkan thn Maria stis fylakes toy Port Saint, oi goneis ths, enw leitoyrgoi ths Presbeias briskontai se synexh epafh me ton ekei dikhgoro ths 19xronhs.
Oyte shmera ekdoqhke telika h apofash toy Genikoy Eisaggelea ths Ismailias anaforika me to aithma ths 19xronhs Marias Antwniadoy, poy krateitai stis fylakes toy Port Saint gia ypoqesh katoxhs narkwtikwn, na afeqei eleyqerh me eggyhsh mexri thn ekdikash ths ypoqeshs ths.
Parolo poy h apofash arxika anamenotan shmera, telika, opws ekproswpos ths kypriakhs presbeias sthn Aigypto anefere sto KYPE anamenetai na ekdoqei "entos twn hmerwn".
www.hri.org /cgi-bin/brief?/news/cyprus/kype/2000/00-08-10.kype.html   (765 words)

  
 Greek Mythology: CALIADNE KALIADNE Naiad Nymph of the River Nile in Egypt
KALIADNE was a Naiad Nymph of the River Nile in Egypt, and a wife of the Egyptian king Aigyptos.
EURYLOKHOS, PHANTES, PERISTHENES, HERMOS, DRYAS, POTAMON, KISSEUS, LIXOS, IMBROS, BROMIOS, POLYKTOR, KHTHONIOS (by Aigyptos) (Apollodorus 2.19)
"The twelve sons of a Naias Nymphe named Kaliadne [and Aigyptos] drew lots for the daughters of Polyxo, also a Naias [and Danaus].
www.theoi.com /Nymphe/NympheKaliadne.html   (136 words)

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