http://novaroma.org/vici/index.php?title=Maia&feed=atom&action=historyMaia - Revision history2024-03-29T01:37:00ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.17.0http://novaroma.org/vici/index.php?title=Maia&diff=48768&oldid=prevQuintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Postumianus: language bar; long passage; stub; link2013-02-05T13:40:54Z<p>language bar; long passage; stub; link</p>
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</table>Quintus Caecilius Metellus Pius Postumianushttp://novaroma.org/vici/index.php?title=Maia&diff=41426&oldid=prevMarca Hortensia Maior at 04:10, 29 August 20092009-08-29T04:10:35Z<p></p>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>'''Maia''' is the mother of Mercurius<del class="diffchange diffchange-inline">, and the eldest daughter of Atlas and Pleione</del>.</div></td><td class='diff-marker'>+</td><td style="background: #cfc; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div>'''Maia''' is the mother of Mercurius.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"And Maia, the daughter of Atlas, bare to Zeus glorious Hermes, the</del></div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">herald of the deathless gods, for she went up into his holy bed." -</del></div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Hesiod, Theogony 938</del></div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"He [Hermes] was born of Maia, the daughter of Atlas, when she had</del></div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">mated with Zeus, a shy goddess she. Ever she avoided the throng of the</del></div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">blessed gods and lived in a shadowy cave, and there the Son of Kronos</del></div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">used to lie with the rich-tressed nymphe at dead of night, while</del></div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">white-armed Hera lay bound in sweet sleep: and neither deathless god</del></div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">nor mortal man knew it. And so hail to you, Son of Zeus and Maia." -</del></div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Homeric Hymn XVII to Hermes 3</del></div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"The oldest daughter Maia, after her intercourse with Zeus, bore</del></div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Hermes in a cave on Kyllene. Though he was laid out in swaddling-</del></div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">clothes with her winnowing basket for a cradle, he escaped and made</del></div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">his way to Pieria, where he stole some cattle that Apollon was</del></div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">tending...Apollon learned who the thief was by divine science, and</del></div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">made his way to Maia on Kyllene to charge Hermes. Maia, however,</del></div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">showed Apollon the baby in his swaddling-clothes, whereupon Apollon</del></div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">took him to Zeus and demanded his cattle." - Apollodorus, The Library</del></div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">"The Pleiades" was the name given to the seven daughters of Atlas and</del></div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Pleione. Maia was the eldest of the daughters, and said to be the most</del></div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">beautiful. Being shy, she lived quietly and alone in a cave on Mount</del></div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">woman, and fell in love with her. He came to her cave at night, to</del></div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">make love to her away from the jealous eyes of his wife, Hera. As a</del></div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">result, Maia bore Zeus a son, Hermes.</del></div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">When still an infant, Hermes stole some cattle from the god Apollo,</del></div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">and hid them in his mother's cave. When Apollo stormed into Maia's</del></div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">cave, she showed him the tiny baby to prove he could not have been the</del></div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">cattle thief. Apollo was not fooled, however, and angrily appealed to</del></div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Zeus to punish Hermes. Zeus arbitrated by requiring Hermes to give</del></div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">back the cattle. During the feud, baby Hermes played the lyre, and</del></div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
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<tr><td class='diff-marker'>−</td><td style="background: #ffa; color:black; font-size: smaller;"><div><del style="color: red; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">even gave some of the cattle to Hermes, as well as other gifts.</del></div></td><td colspan="2"> </td></tr>
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</table>Marca Hortensia Maiorhttp://novaroma.org/vici/index.php?title=Maia&diff=41377&oldid=prevGnaeus Cornelius Lentulus: correct category2009-08-28T09:48:37Z<p>correct category</p>
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</table>Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulushttp://novaroma.org/vici/index.php?title=Maia&diff=41356&oldid=prevGaius Equitius Cato: New page: '''Maia''' is the mother of Mercurius, and the eldest daughter of Atlas and Pleione. "You ask where I think the name of May comes from? Its origin's not totally clear to me. As a travelle...2009-08-28T03:32:35Z<p>New page: '''Maia''' is the mother of Mercurius, and the eldest daughter of Atlas and Pleione. "You ask where I think the name of May comes from? Its origin's not totally clear to me. As a travelle...</p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Maia''' is the mother of Mercurius, and the eldest daughter of Atlas and Pleione.<br />
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"You ask where I think the name of May comes from?<br />
Its origin's not totally clear to me.<br />
As a traveller stands unsure which way to go,<br />
Seeing the paths fan out in all directions,<br />
So I'm not sure which to accept, since it's possible<br />
To give different reasons: plenty itself confuses.<br />
You who haunt the founts of Aganippian Hippocrene,<br />
Those beloved prints of the Medusaean horse, explain!<br />
The goddesses are in conflict. Polyhymnia begins,<br />
While the others silently consider her speech.<br />
'After the first Chaos, as soon as the three primary forms<br />
Were given to the world, all things were newly re-configured:<br />
Earth sank under its own weight, and drew down the seas,<br />
But lightness lifted the sky to the highest regions:<br />
And the sun and stars, not held back by their weight,<br />
And you, you horses of the moon, sprang high.<br />
But Earth for a long time wouldn't yield to Sky,<br />
Nor the other lights to the Sun: honours were equal.<br />
One of the common crowd of gods, would often dare<br />
To sit on the throne that you, Saturn, owned,<br />
None of the new gods took Ocean's side,<br />
And Themis was relegated to the lowest place,<br />
Until Honour, and proper Reverence, she<br />
Of the calm look, were united in a lawful bed.<br />
From them Majesty was born, she considers them<br />
Her parents, she who was noble from her day of birth." - Ovid, Fast V<br />
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"And Maia, the daughter of Atlas, bare to Zeus glorious Hermes, the<br />
herald of the deathless gods, for she went up into his holy bed." -<br />
Hesiod, Theogony 938<br />
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"He [Hermes] was born of Maia, the daughter of Atlas, when she had<br />
mated with Zeus, a shy goddess she. Ever she avoided the throng of the<br />
blessed gods and lived in a shadowy cave, and there the Son of Kronos<br />
used to lie with the rich-tressed nymphe at dead of night, while<br />
white-armed Hera lay bound in sweet sleep: and neither deathless god<br />
nor mortal man knew it. And so hail to you, Son of Zeus and Maia." -<br />
Homeric Hymn XVII to Hermes 3<br />
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"The oldest daughter Maia, after her intercourse with Zeus, bore<br />
Hermes in a cave on Kyllene. Though he was laid out in swaddling-<br />
clothes with her winnowing basket for a cradle, he escaped and made<br />
his way to Pieria, where he stole some cattle that Apollon was<br />
tending...Apollon learned who the thief was by divine science, and<br />
made his way to Maia on Kyllene to charge Hermes. Maia, however,<br />
showed Apollon the baby in his swaddling-clothes, whereupon Apollon<br />
took him to Zeus and demanded his cattle." - Apollodorus, The Library<br />
3.112<br />
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"The Pleiades" was the name given to the seven daughters of Atlas and<br />
Pleione. Maia was the eldest of the daughters, and said to be the most<br />
beautiful. Being shy, she lived quietly and alone in a cave on Mount<br />
Cyllene, in Arcadia. Zeus, however, discovered the beautiful young<br />
woman, and fell in love with her. He came to her cave at night, to<br />
make love to her away from the jealous eyes of his wife, Hera. As a<br />
result, Maia bore Zeus a son, Hermes.<br />
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When still an infant, Hermes stole some cattle from the god Apollo,<br />
and hid them in his mother's cave. When Apollo stormed into Maia's<br />
cave, she showed him the tiny baby to prove he could not have been the<br />
cattle thief. Apollo was not fooled, however, and angrily appealed to<br />
Zeus to punish Hermes. Zeus arbitrated by requiring Hermes to give<br />
back the cattle. During the feud, baby Hermes played the lyre, and<br />
Apollo was so enchanted by the music that he dropped the charges, and<br />
even gave some of the cattle to Hermes, as well as other gifts.<br />
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Some time later, Maia helped Zeus when Hera had caused the death of<br />
one of his other mistresses, Callisto, who had borne him a son, named<br />
Arcas. Zeus ordered Hermes to give Arcas to Maia to raise as her own,<br />
which she did. Arcas and Callisto were eventually placed in the sky,<br />
becoming the constellations Ursa Major and Ursa Minor (Big and Little<br />
Bear) to escape the wrath of the ever-jealous Hera.<br />
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