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  Schulers Books (Hypatia - 31/97)
Philammon thought the latter part of the theory open to question, but he had by no means stopped eating when he rose, and his mouth was much too full of fish to argue.
Philammon thanked him heartily for the offer, though he shrank from accepting it; and in ten minutes more found himself at the door of the very house which he had been watching the night before.
Philammon gazed curiously at these symbols of a science unknown to him, and wondered whether the day would ever come when he too would understand their mysteries; but his eyes fell again as he saw the youths staring at his ragged sheepskin and matted locks with undisguised contempt.
www.schulers.com /books/ch/h/Hypatia/Hypatia31.htm   (1273 words)

  
 Schulers Books (Hypatia - 18/97)
Philammon stooped, and lifted from the ground a comely negro-woman, weeping, and shivering in a few tattered remnants of clothing.
Philammon, flushed with victory, took advantage of the confusion, and before the worthy pair could recover, dealt them half a dozen blows which, luckily for them, came from an unpractised hand, or the young monk might have had more than one life to answer for.
As it was, they turned and limped off, cursing in an unknown tongue; and Philammon found himself triumphant and alone, with the trembling negress and the prostrate ruffian, who, stunned by the blow and the fall, lay groaning on the pavement.
www.schulers.com /books/ch/h/Hypatia/Hypatia18.htm   (1532 words)

  
 Delphi, Greek Mythology Link.
Philammon was son of Apollo by either Chione 2, Leuconoe 3 or Philonis, though others have called him son of Hephaestus.
Philammon was killed by an armed force of Phlegyans that marched against the sanctuary at Delphi.
The third contest was won by Thamyris 1, son of Philammon and the Nymph Argiope 3.
homepage.mac.com /cparada/GML/Delphi.html   (3742 words)

  
 "Hypatia", Charles Kingsley, 1928
Now Philammon believed most utterly in the devil, and night and day devoutly prayed to be delviered from him; so he crossed himself, and ejaculated, honestly enough, "Lord turn away mine eyes, lest they behold vanity!".
Philammon, like every one else, loved Aufugus; and when the abbot retired and left the two alone together, he felt no dread or shame about unburdening his whole heart to him.
Philammon flung himself at the old men's feet, and besought, with many tears, their forgiveness and their blessing.
www.polyamory.org /~howard/Hypatia/Kingsley_chapter_01.html   (3039 words)

  
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Philammon flung himself at the old men's feet, and besought, with many tears, their forgiveness and their blessing.'We have nothing to forgive.
All was activity and excitement; and it was no wonder if Philammon's curiosity had tempted him to drift down almost abreast of the barge ere he descried, peeping from under a decorated awning in the afterpart, some dozen pairs of languishing fl eyes, turned alternately to the game and to himself.
Philammon quietly submitted--if submission have anything to do with that state of mind in which sheer astonishment and novelty have broken up all the custom of man's nature, till the strangest deeds and sufferings are taken as matters of course.
www.gutenberg.org /dirs/etext04/hypta10.txt   (15895 words)

  
 New Haven Road Race 1999 | Running... Away From Home   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Philammon Hanneck has always loved the competition of running.
The Hannecks have put off having children until Philammon settles down in the American circuit, which he says is three or four years ahead of him.
But Kenyan Margaret Kagiri, one of the top women running in The New Haven Road Race, has a child growing up in Kenya who she is apart from for many months of the year.
old.newhavenadvocate.com /articles/roadrace99d.html   (1114 words)

  
 That day find me where I long to be, in - Asfour Blog - asfour.kazankamall.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Later in the day, after he had presented himself to Archbishop Cyril, Philammon learnt from an old priest, and from a fanatical monk named Peter, that the very name of Hypatia was enough to rouse the clergy to a fury of execration.
It seemed that Orestes, the Roman governor of the city, although nominally a Christian, was the curse of the Alexandrian Church; and Orestes visited Hypatia, whose lectures on heathen philosophy drew all the educated youth of the place.
Philammon flung himself at the old men's feet, and besought their blessing and their forgiveness.
asfour.kazankamall.com /entry/11210310151947   (538 words)

  
 Etext » books
Philammon, like everyone else, loved Aufugus; and when the abbot retired and left the two alone together, he felt no dread or shame about unburdening his whole heart to him.
Philammon, not understanding the language in which he was addressed, could only shake his head--though if he had known what its import was, he could hardly in honesty have said, No.
Philammon misinterpreted the intense interest of her tone, and if he did not shrink back, gave some involuntary gesture of reluctance.
etext.teamnesbitt.com /books/etext/etext04/hypta10.txt.html   (16412 words)

  
 "Hypatia", Charles Kingsley, 1928
An old grizzled warrior at the stern, with a rudder in either hand, kept the boat's head continually towards the monster, in spite of its sudden and frantic wheelings; and when it dashed madly across the stream, some twenty oars flashed through the water in pursuit.
All was activity and excitement; and it was no wonder if Philammon's curiosity had tempted him to drift down almost abreast of the barge, ere he descried, peeping from under a decorated awning in the after-part, some dozen pairs of languishing fl eyes, turned alternately to the game and to himself.
The awning was raised, and lying luxuriously on a soft mattress, fanned with peacock's feathers, and glittering with rubies and topazes, appeared such a vision as Philammon had never seen before.
www.polyamory.org /~howard/Hypatia/Kingsley_chapter_03.html   (1525 words)

  
 Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, page 367 (v. 1)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
her murder; they broke into the house of Phi­lammon, and killed him together with his son and wife.
She was present with her husband at the battle of Raphia (b.
217), in which Antiochus, the Great, was defeated; but her profligate husband was induced towards the end of his reign, by the intrigues of Sosibius, to order Philammon to put her to death.
ancientlibrary.com /smith-bio/0376.html   (849 words)

  
 Greek Mythology: APOLLON & HERMES LOVES: KHIONE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Later on she spoke too haughtily against Diana [Artemis] in the hunt, and so was slain by her arrows.
Her womb fulfilled its time and to the wing-foot god a wily brat was born, Autolycus, adept at tricks off every kind, well used to make fl white, white fl, a son who kept his father’s skill.
To Phoebus there was born (for she had twins) Philammon, famed alike for song and lyre.
www.theoi.com /Erotes/Apollon+Hermes+Khione.html   (680 words)

  
 Chione - Acadine Archive   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
She was so beautiful that Hermes and Apollo fell in love with her.
She was the mother of twins, Autolycus and Philammon, sons of Hermes and Apollo respectively.
She compared herself for beauty to Artemis, and was thereupon slain by the incensed goddess.
www.acadine.org /w/Chione   (95 words)

  
 Creek Running North: Argiope trifasciata
(Philammon was another writer, the son of Apollo, who indulged in an outdoor dalliance with the nymph Argiope.
Six to eight weeks later, the story goes, when Argiope brought him a bit of interesting news regarding their impending offspring, Philammon turned his back on her.
Rejected, she left Parnassus for Thrace, where their son Thamyris was born.
www.faultline.org /place/pinolecreek/archives/000482.html   (500 words)

  
 All words on Walter Forward
At last the heavy tramp of footsteps was heard coming down the while Peter rushed downstairs to heat the large coppers, having some moon glittered on a long line of helmets and cuirasses.
The prisoners, and the men who took them.' In a few minutes Philammon found himself, with some twenty others, quietly, small notes on slips of paper.
'Here is the youth who helped me to pursue the murderer, and having clean from blood, I thank the Lord!' 'Three set on me with daggers,' said Philammon, apologetically, 'and others with it.' Cyril smiled, and shook his head.
www.allwords.org /wa/walter-forward.html   (615 words)

  
 Greek Mythology: THE LOVES OF APOLLON   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
She was seduced by Apollon whilst hunting and bore him two offspring: Aristaios and Idmon.
She lay with both him and the god Hermes on the same night and bore twins: Apollon's child was named Philammon.
PHILAMMON A King and Bard of Phokis (in Central Greece).
www.theoi.com /Erotes/ApollonLoves.html   (6017 words)

  
 Out, "It is false, - Trends Blog - trends.irtyshshopping.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Several of the most valiant began to scramble over the benches up to him, and Philammon was congratulating himself on the near approach of a glorious martyrdom, when Hypatia's voice, calm and silvery, stifled the noise and tumult in a moment..
Let him sit here quietly, and perhaps we may be able to teach him otherwise." And, without even a change of tone, she continued her lecture.
Philammon sprang up the moment that the spell of her voice was taken off him, and hurried out through the corridor into the street.
trends.irtyshshopping.com /entry/11210308035736   (296 words)

  
 Philammon, Hypatia - Trends Blog - trends.irtyshshopping.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
And she sprang from the platform into his arms, and then, covering her face with both her hands, sank down among the bloodstained sand.
Philammon was hurried away by the attendants, and Pelagia, her face still hidden by her hands, walked slowly away and.
For Venus was his sister, long parted from him in childhood, and only in the last few days had he learnt of his relationship to Pelagia, the lady who had consented to act the part of the Goddess of Love, and who was betrothed to Amal, the leader of the band of Goths.
trends.irtyshshopping.com /entry/11210308036099   (375 words)

  
 Fathers of the Second Century (iii.ii.xli)
Demodocus and Phemius lived at the very time of the Trojan war; for the one resided with the suitors, and the other with the Phœacians.
Thamyris and Philammon were not much earlier than these.
Thus, concerning their several performances in each kind, and their times and the record of them, we have written very fully, and, as I think, with all exactness.
www.ccel.org /ccel/schaff/anf02.iii.ii.xli.html   (320 words)

  
 Bertonneau - Like Hypatia before the Mob
In the latter, the climactic moment occurs after the learned woman, described significantly by Kingsley as a person "of the fancy and the religious sentiment, rather than of reason and the moral sense" (289), has been dragged from the Library to a nearby basilica, or church.
Hypatia's student Philammon witnesses the sparagmos, for that is what it is, and Kingsley describes it from his (Philammon's) point of view:
Her lips were opened to speak; but the words that should have come from them reached God's ear alone; for in an instant Peter [her main tormentor] struck her down, the dark mass closed over her again.
www.humnet.ucla.edu /humnet/anthropoetics/ap0101/boston.htm   (10129 words)

  
 Autolycus
Chione bore two sons--Philammon to Apollo and Autolycus to Hermes.
Philammon inherited Apollo's talent for music, and Autolycus inherited Hermes' skill at trickery.
Aside from his relation to Odysseus, Autolycus is chiefly remembered for his many thefts, including the cattle of Eurytus and a helmet eventually worn by Odysseus at Troy.
www.pantheon.org /articles/a/autolycus.html   (202 words)

  
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Subsequent mythological genealogies explain how his great-great-grandfather was Eurytus, father of Deione, who gave birth to Philonides, whose union with Apollo generated Philammon, father of the singer.
The bow was replaced by the string instrument as the rules of competition were passed down through generations, first to Philammon, then to his son Thamyris, who also possessed the knowledge received from his mother, the nymph Argiope.
Not only is the competitive motif a constant feature in the ritual dances of the Nymphs devoted to Artemides, but it is also duplicated in the contest between Pierides and the Muses and even multiplied ad infinitum in the continuous challenges launched by the Sirens - sometimes described as the daughters of Terpsichore (
www.provincia.venezia.it /levi/ma/index/number2/restani/dona3.html   (775 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
There was nothing which that river did not do.
Philammon, seated, looked him calmly in the face....
Philammon turned away his eyes from beholding vanity; but only to meet fresh vanity wheresoever they fell.
isis.library.adelaide.edu.au /pg/etext04/hypta10.txt   (15895 words)

  
 Philammon Sources   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Thamyris, son of Philammon by Argiope, fell in love with Hyacinth;
Apollo and Mercury [Hermes] in the same night had sex with Chione or, as other poets say, with Philonis, daughter of Daedalion; she bore Philammon to Apollo and Autolycus to Mercury [Hermes];
Hermes one day, and Apollo that night, had sex with Chione; Chione bore Autolycus to Hermes and Philammon to Apollo;
www.csulb.edu /~dbouvier/SourceFiles/i1243Sources.htm   (63 words)

  
 Sisyphus
SISYPHUS, son of Aeolus, married ATLAS' daughter Merope the Pleiad, who bore him Glaucus, Ornytion, and Sinon; he owned a fine herd of cattle on the Isthmus of CORINTH.
Near him lived Autolycus, son of Chione, whose twin brother Philammon was begotten by APOLLO, although Autolycus himself claimed Hermes as his father.
Now, Autolycus was a past master of theft, HERMES having given him the power of metamorphosing whatever beasts he stole from horned to unhorned, fl to white, and contrariwise.
www.homestead.com /MWSresearch/files/Sisyphus.htm   (837 words)

  
 Apollo (Olympian god)
Apollo once loved the goddess-nymph Cyrene and by her fathered the god Aristaeus.
Both he and his half-brother Hermes, the speedster-god mated with the mortal Chione who bore Hermes Autolycus and to Apollo, Philammon.
One of Apollo's most famous mortal lovers was Queen Hecuba, the wife of Priam, the last king of Troy.
www.marvunapp.com /Appendix/apolloph.htm   (1869 words)

  
 HB Family 24
Her daughter Dagmar won the Kildare Hunt Cup at Puncestown at age six, and placed second in it at age eight.
Her son Mickey won five steeplechases and a hurdle race; The Dane won two flat races for hunters, a hurdle race and a steeplechase; Duchess won a small steeplechase, and Castlenock, by the Solon son Philammon won nine races, including the Carlington Handicap, the Drayton Handicap, and the Croxteth Cup.
Castlenock, a sixteen hand bay, was later a sire of good hunters, and won a silver medal at London in 1894.
www.tbheritage.com /HistoricDams/HBMares/HB24.html   (573 words)

  
 Patience, and humility, and, above all, his - Asfour Blog - asfour.kazankamall.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
The doubts and temptations of his own generation, soon drew around him all whose sensitiveness or waywardness had made them unmanageable in the neighbouring monasteries.
Never was the young Abbot Philammon heard to speak harshly of any human being, and he stopped, by stern rebuke, any attempt to revile either heretics or heathens.
One thing was noted, that there mingled always with his prayers the names of two women.
asfour.kazankamall.com /entry/11210980116209   (281 words)

  
 Art & Architecture: The Art - Vol II. / "Pelagia and Philammon" (Image)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
Art & Architecture: The Art - Vol II.
"The English painter has found his subject for this painting in the last pages of Kingsley's 'Hypatia.' Philammon, the Greek disciple of the cruelly murdered daughter of Theon, after this event became a hermit in the desert, and was later made, for his piety, abbot of the monastery of Scetis.
Every night in his prayers, according to an extract which the author gives from "an unpublished fragment of the Hagiologia Nilotica of Gradiocolosyrtus Tabbeniticus," he interceded for two women by name - 'a heathen and a harlot' - Hypatia and Pelagia.
columbus.gl.iit.edu /artarch/00264042.html   (185 words)

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