Translation for '
Pirithous' from English to Bulgarian
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Usage Examples English
- The battle took place during the wedding of the King of the Lapithae, Pirithous, and his wife Hippodamia.
- Also a subspecies of butterflies, "Leptotes pirithous capvertis" has been found near Esponjeiro.
- ... "damazein" "to tame") was the daughter of Atrax or Butes She gave birth to Pirithous's son Polypoetes, but died shortly afterwards.
- This species is rather similar and it can be confused with "Leptotes pirithous and "Cacyreus marshalli" although the pea-blue is significantly larger than both species.
- However, the surviving fragments come from a description of the descent into the underworld of Theseus and Pirithous.
- Asbolus foresaw the Centaurs' battle against the Lapiths at Pirithous' wedding, and unsuccessfully attempted to prevent them from attending.
- According to Ovid, in his "Metamorphoses", Amyntor had a son Crantor, whom he gave to Peleus when he sued for peace, and who died fighting alongside Peleus in the Centauromachy, the battle between the Lapiths and the Centaurs at the wedding feast of Pirithous.
- Theseus's best friend was Pirithous, king of the Lapiths.
- An endemic species of butterflies, "Leptotes pirithous capverti", has been found in the area.
- The opera takes its name from the King Pirithous of Greek mythology.
- The manner of Rilian's confinement to a chair recalls the imprisonment of Theseus and Pirithous in the Underworld when discovered there by Heracles on his twelfth and final labour, the abduction of Cerberus.
- "Leptotes pirithous", the Lang's short-tailed blue or common zebra blue, is a butterfly of the family Lycaenidae.
- According to Homer, Dia had sex with Zeus, who was disguised as a stallion, and gave birth to Pirithous; a folk etymology derived Pirithous' name from "peritheein" (...), because that was what Zeus did to seduce Dia.
- He had three daughters: Hippodamia, wife of Pirithous; Caenis, who transformed into a male, Caeneus; and Damasippe, who was married to Cassandrus of Thrace.
- "Le centaure Eurytion enlevant la fiancée de Pirithoüs". A group in plaster shown at the 1868 Salon.
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