单词 | kore |
释义 | Koren. 1. Ancient Greek Mythology. The daughter of Zeus and Demeter, known as Persephone when she married Hades. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [noun] > other classical deities Plutoc1330 Herculesc1369 Proteusa1425 Tellusc1425 chaosa1522 grace1538 terminus1565 victory1569 Hymena1593 harvest queen1598 Hades1599 aurora1610 puffer1615 Egeria1624 hour1637 Hygeia1737 Kore1844 Nike1846 vintage-god1873 1844 L. Schmitz in W. Smith Dict. Greek & Rom. Biogr. & Mythol. I. 852/1 Core..the maiden, a name by which Persephone is often called. 1849 L. Schmitz in W. Smith Dict. Greek & Rom. Biogr. & Mythol. III. 204/2 In the mysteries of Eleusis, the return of Cora from the lower world was regarded as the symbol of immortality. 1885 Encycl. Brit. XIX. 824/1 Proserpine herself was commonly known as the daughter (Core). 1916 E. Pound Lustra 18 Korè is seen in the North Skirting the blue-gray sea. 1930 E. Pound Draft of XXX Cantos xvii. 79 Koré through the bright meadow, with green-gray dust in the grass. 1968 Encycl. Brit. XVII. 644/2 One of the variants of the name Persephone is..a form with a pre-Hellenic suffix that suggests that she was a pre-Hellenic deity..a goddess of the dead. If this is so, her connection with Demeter came later, when she was identified with Kore (the Greek word for ‘maiden’)..daughter of Demeter; Demeter and Kore were the leading goddesses in the Eleusinian mysteries. 2. Ancient Greek Sculpture. (Often with lower-case initial.) A statue of a draped maiden. ΚΠ 1920 Q. Rev. July 28 There are, in our Archaic Room, good examples both of the Kore and her male companion the Kouros. 1934 Burlington Mag. Jan. 46/1 The archaic bronzes include..an Ionian kore..and a warrior. 1950 H. L. Lorimer Homer & Monuments vi. 356 This arrangement can be plainly seen on a Kore from the Acropolis. 1971 Ashmolean Mus. Rep. Visitors 1970 18 A terracotta scent vase in the form of a standing kore, Rhodian, late 6th century b.c. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1844 |
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