Source The Secrets of AlchemyLawrence M. Principe
Source Wikipedia, "Homeric Hymns"Wikipedia contributors
Ancient Greek carried the epics, hymns and inscriptions of the religion.
Source Greek ReligionWalter Burkert
Source Hellenistic Philosophy: Stoics, Epicureans, ScepticsA. A. Long
Source Greek ReligionWalter Burkert
Source The Secrets of AlchemyLawrence M. Principe
Cedar, Plants Cedar is from Greek kedros through Latin cedrus, a name the ancients spread across several unrelated aromatic woods, so that cedar has never meant one tree.
Source The Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd editionOxford University Press
The body is named for Cheiron, the centaur of Greek myth, following the convention that gave the classical planets their names from the same mythology.
Source A History of Western AstrologyNicholas Campion
Chrysanthemum is from Greek khrysanthemon, golden flower, from khrysos, gold, and anthemon, flower, describing the wild yellow species the Greeks knew.
Source The Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd editionOxford University Press
Source The Secrets of AlchemyLawrence M. Principe
Source The Secrets of AlchemyLawrence M. Principe
The botanical name Celosia is Greek for burning, reading the crested head as a flame; the English cockscomb reads the same head as a rooster's comb.
Source The Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd editionOxford University Press
Source The Secrets of AlchemyLawrence M. Principe
Date is from Greek daktylos, a finger, for the shape of the fruit. With palm from the Latin, two body parts name one tree.
Source The Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd editionOxford University Press
Source Hellenistic Philosophy: Stoics, Epicureans, ScepticsA. A. Long
Source The Secrets of AlchemyLawrence M. Principe
Source The Secrets of AlchemyLawrence M. Principe
Source Greek ReligionWalter Burkert
Source Hellenistic Philosophy: Stoics, Epicureans, ScepticsA. A. Long
Source The Secrets of AlchemyLawrence M. Principe
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
Source A History of Western AstrologyNicholas Campion
Source Numerology: Or, What Pythagoras WroughtUnderwood Dudley
Hades, Realms Source Greek ReligionWalter Burkert
Source Hellenistic Philosophy: Stoics, Epicureans, ScepticsA. A. Long
Source Wikipedia, "Hermeticism"Wikipedia contributors
Hibiscus is from Greek hibiskos, which named the marsh mallow, a related but different plant; Linnaeus moved the old word to the showy tropical mallows.
Source The Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd editionOxford University Press
Source Divinity Atlas Entity Records, First Edition
Source Divinity Atlas Entity Records, First Edition
Source Divinity Atlas Entity Records, First Edition
Source The Oxford Classical Dictionary, 4th editionSimon Hornblower, Antony Spawforth and Esther Eidinow (eds.)
Hydrangea is from Greek hydor, water, and angeion, a vessel, for the little cup-shaped seed capsules, not, as is often said, for the plant's thirst.
Source The Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd editionOxford University Press
Source The Oxford Classical Dictionary, 4th editionSimon Hornblower, Antony Spawforth and Esther Eidinow (eds.)
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
Source Virtue Ethics (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry)Rosalind Hursthouse and Glen Pettigrove
Lotus, Plants Lotus is from Greek lotos, a name the Greeks used for several unrelated plants at once, the Egyptian water lily, the fruit of the Homeric lotus-eaters and a clover, so the one English word inherits a confusion.
Source The Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd editionOxford University Press
Source Hellenistic Philosophy: Stoics, Epicureans, ScepticsA. A. Long
Source Virtue Ethics (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry)Rosalind Hursthouse and Glen Pettigrove
This edge names one proposed source language rather than a contested claim in its own right. Metatron's own name-origin facts already carry the dispute over a Greek or Latin metator derivation against the Second Temple Enoch-tradition reading, in full.
Source The Enoch-Metatron TraditionAndrei A. Orlov
Source Wikipedia, "Plotinus"Wikipedia contributors
Source The Secrets of AlchemyLawrence M. Principe
Source The Orphic Hymns: Text, Translation, and NotesApostolos N. Athanassakis and Benjamin M. Wolkow
Source A History of Western AstrologyNicholas Campion
Source A History of Western AstrologyNicholas Campion
Source A History of Western AstrologyNicholas Campion
Source A History of Western AstrologyNicholas Campion
Source A History of Western AstrologyNicholas Campion
Source A History of Western AstrologyNicholas Campion
Source A History of Western AstrologyNicholas Campion
Source A History of Western AstrologyNicholas Campion
Source A History of Western AstrologyNicholas Campion
Source A History of Western AstrologyNicholas Campion
Source A History of Western AstrologyNicholas Campion
Source A History of Western AstrologyNicholas Campion
Source A History of Western AstrologyNicholas Campion
Source A History of Western AstrologyNicholas Campion
Source A History of Western AstrologyNicholas Campion
Source A History of Western AstrologyNicholas Campion
Source Hellenistic Philosophy: Stoics, Epicureans, ScepticsA. A. Long
Source Hellenistic Philosophy: Stoics, Epicureans, ScepticsA. A. Long
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
Source Wikipedia, "Golden Verses"Wikipedia contributors
Source The Secrets of AlchemyLawrence M. Principe
Why this is disputed. Sandalphon's name is usually explained as Greek, from syn, together with, and adelphos, brother, read as co-brother or twin, a fitting name for the angel paired with Metatron as his twin in Jewish mystical literature. Other scholars are unconvinced by any Greek derivation and treat the name's origin as unresolved, since no Hebrew or Aramaic root accounts for it either.
Source The Enoch-Metatron TraditionAndrei A. Orlov
Source The Secrets of AlchemyLawrence M. Principe
The books were Greek hexameter oracles read at Rome. That they were foreign material, in a foreign language, admitted into the state cult and consulted only by decree of the Senate through a dedicated priesthood, is much of what made them what they were.
Source Sibyls and Sibylline Prophecy in Classical AntiquityH. W. Parke
Source Virtue Ethics (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry)Rosalind Hursthouse and Glen Pettigrove
Source Hellenistic Philosophy: Stoics, Epicureans, ScepticsA. A. Long
Sycamore is from Greek sykomoros, fig-mulberry, the Levantine tree of that name, later fastened in Britain onto a maple and in America onto a plane.
Source The Oxford English Dictionary, 3rd editionOxford University Press
Source TheogonyHesiod
Source The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, 3rd revised editionF. L. Cross and E. A. Livingstone (eds.)
Why this is disputed. The Pella curse tablet is written in a Northwest Greek dialect, but the classification of ancient Macedonian itself, the language or dialect the tablet is sometimes taken as evidence for, is the actual argument among historical linguists. Some treat Macedonian as a Greek dialect closely related to Northwest Greek varieties like the one this tablet shows; others argue for a separate, sister branch of Hellenic that shared vocabulary and contact with Greek without being a Greek dialect proper, and Emily Voutiras's study of the tablet's own context is itself part of a literature that has not settled the classification either way.
Source Dionysophontos Gamoi: Marital Life and Magic in Fourth Century PellaEmmanuel Voutiras
Source The Oxford Classical Dictionary, 4th editionSimon Hornblower, Antony Spawforth and Esther Eidinow (eds.)