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Euphrosyne

Euphrosyne (yo͞ofrŏsˈənēˌ): see Graces.

Euphrosyne

(religion, spiritualism, and occult)

Euphrosyne, asteroid 31 (the 31st asteroid to be discovered, on September 1, 1854), is approximately 270 kilometers in diameter and has an orbital period of 5.5 years. Euphrosyne, whose appellation means cheerfulness or joy, was named after one of the three Graces (the other two are Thalia and Aglaja). Euphrosyne was a daughter of Zeus and Eurynome. Like its mythological namesake, the asteroid confers the “grace” of joy to natives in whose chart it is prominent.

Sources:

Kowal, Charles T. Asteroids: Their Nature and Utilization. Chichester, West Sussex, UK: Ellis Horwood Limited, 1988.

Room, Adrian. Dictionary of Astronomical Names. London: Routledge, 1988.

Schwartz, Jacob. Asteroid Name Encyclopedia. St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 1995.

Euphrosyne

[yü′fräz·ən·ē]

(astronomy)

An asteroid with a diameter of about 154 miles (248 kilometers), mean distance from the sun of 3.15 astronomical units, and B-type (C-like) surface composition.

Euphrosyne

one of the Graces; epitome of beauty in joy. [Gk. Myth.: Brewer Dictionary, 481]

See: Beauty

Euphrosyne

one of Graces; name means ‘festivity.’ [Gk. Myth.: Kravitz, 96]

See: Joy

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(5) The Voyage Out's Clarissa Dalloway echoes this sentiment from the decks of the Euphrosyne: "One thinks of all we've done, and our navies, and the people in India and Africa, and how we've gone on century after century, sending out boys from little country villages...it makes one feel as if one couldn't bear not to be English" (42).

H.M.S. Orlando: The Metamorphosing, Imperial Vessel

'The educational effect of catechetical instruction in the fourth century A.D.', Euphrosyne 7 (1972) 249-271.

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Miletus Michael Wildman Ismene Tracy Ifeachor Aglaea Aicha Kossoko Euphrosyne Pamela Nomvete Thalia Joy Richardson Haemon Simon Manyonda Tiresias Bruce Myers Antigone Vinette Robinson Talthybia Jacqueline Defferary Phaex Ferdinand Kingsley With: Jessie Burton, Daniel Fine, Karlina Grace, Irma Inniss, Alexia Khadime, Cornelius Macarthy, Clare Perkins, Victor Power, Daniel Poyser, Zara Tempest Waiters.

Welcome to Thebes

The trek up the mountain elicits a commentary that recalls the earlier vision aboard the Euphrosyne: "Higher and higher they went, becoming separated from the world.

Voyaging out: the Woolfs and internationalism

The author, an enterprising scientific instrument maker called Benjamin Martin, revamped the Greek mode of teaching through dialogue by setting up imaginary conversations between two fictional characters: Euphrosyne, thirsty for knowledge, and her brother Cleonicus, who comes back home from university and expounds to his sister (rather condescendingly) on all the exciting subjects he has studied--optics, electricity, astronomy--while she has been consigned to spending her days singing, dancing and sewing.

Elizabeth Tollet and her scientific sisters: though lacking opportunities to be taken seriously, bright women from the 17th century onwards were developing their interest in science. Patricia Fara investigates the life and work of one such woman, Elizabeth Tollet, whose poetry reflects a passionate engagement with natural philosophy and a firm grasp of Newtonian ideas

Keefer, Euphrosyne. "Clock." Canadian Music Centre, 1990.

Finding North: noteworthy Canadian Women Composers' contributions to vocal compositions for mezzo, contralto, or unspecified voice

Knight's rendition of Phrosyne's death might well have inspired the various descriptions of female encirclement--both in terms of fabrics and of bodies--that surround Euphrosyne, a beautiful woman in the anonymously published novel of Thomas Hope, Anastasius; or, Memoirs of a Modern Greek (1819), which Murray published and Byron admired.

Jousting for the honour of Greece and 'a certain Miss Phrosyne': Baron Byron and Gally Knight clash over costume, correctness, and a princess

Rowland ("Melville Answers" 9) notes that the image of the congregation's "sprightly nods and becks" is borrowed from lines 25-30 of Milton's L'Allegro in which the poet invokes the spirit of mirth, Euphrosyne, who is one of the Three Graces.

Christian typology and social critique in Melville's "The Two Temples"

number of the versions of the Life of the transvestite Saint Euphrosyne

The centrality of margins medieval French genders and genres reconfigured

Another example, from mid-eighth-century Byzantine Italy, is Euphrosyne, deaconess and abbess of the women's monastery of SS.

Female deacons in the Byzantine Church (1)

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