15-522: Camilla Patrizia " Milly " Carlucci (born 1 October 1954) is an Italian television presenter, actress and singer. Carlucci played the role of Urania in the 1985 film The Adventures of Hercules . In 1996 she became a Goodwill ambassador for UNICEF . Since 2005 she has been the sole host of Ballando con le Stelle ("Dancing with the Stars"), the Italian version of Strictly Come Dancing . In 2009 she became
30-505: A little staff, and depicted in modern art with stars above her head. She is able to foretell the future by the arrangement of the stars. Those who are most concerned with philosophy and the heavens are dearest to her. Those who have been instructed by her she raises aloft to heaven, for it is a fact that imagination and the power of thought lift men's souls to heavenly heights. Urania, o'er her star-bespangled lyre, With touch of majesty diffused her soul; A thousand tones, that in
45-517: Is a biographical dictionary of classical antiquity , edited by William Smith and originally published in London by Taylor , Walton (and Maberly) and John Murray from 1844 to 1849 in three volumes of more than 3,700 pages. It is a classic work of 19th-century lexicography . The work is a companion to Smith's Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities and Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography . The work lists thirty-five authors in addition to
60-480: Is also said to have been a son of Urania. Urania is often associated with Universal Love. Sometimes identified as the eldest of the divine sisters, Urania inherited Zeus' majesty and power and the beauty and grace of her mother Mnemosyne . Urania dresses in a cloak embroidered with stars and keeps her eyes and attention focused on the Heavens . She is usually represented with a celestial globe to which she points with
75-559: Is missing, especially more recent discoveries (such as Aristotle 's Constitution of the Athenians or the decipherment of Linear B ) and epigraphic material. More seriously, the context in which ancient evidence is viewed, analysed, reconciled, and understood has changed considerably in the intervening centuries. Modern theories and reconstructions of events are also not present, if only because they were published decades and centuries after Smith's Dictionary . Citations Sources Also
90-511: The Oxford Classical Dictionary – itself hailed in its first edition in 1949 as "the new Smith" – called it: Still surprisingly useful over factual matters that depend more or less exclusively on ancient literary sources, where its entries tend to be both thorough and accurate. Smith's dictionary, however, does have substantial flaws. Troy and Knossos , for example, "the editors still regarded... as minstrels' fantasies". Much
105-490: The muse of astronomy and astrology . Urania is the goddess of astronomy and stars, her attributes being the globe and compass . The muse Urania is sometimes confused with Aphrodite Urania ("heavenly Aphrodite ") because of their similar name. Urania was the daughter of Zeus by Mnemosyne and also a great-granddaughter of Uranus . Some accounts list her as the mother of the musician Linus by Apollo or Hermes or Amphimarus , son of Poseidon . Hymenaeus
120-549: The articles on the Ptolemies in Dr. Smith's "Dictionary of Classical Biography." They were all written by E. H. Bunbury with the help of my "History of Egypt," and with-out any acknowledgment, though he even borrowed the volume from my brother Dan for the purpose. The work is now in the public domain , and is available in several places on the Internet. A 2013 review of the fourth edition of
135-515: The breast inspire, Exalted feelings, o er the wires'gan roll— How at the call of Jove the mist unfurled, And o'er the swelling vault—the glowing sky, The new-born stars hung out their lamps on high, And rolled their mighty orbs to music's sweetest sound. —From An Ode To Music by James G. Percival During the Renaissance , Urania began to be considered the Muse for Christian poets. In
150-495: The depth and detail of the individual articles, but in the copious and specific citations to individual Greek and Roman writers, as well as modern scholarship from the Renaissance to the mid-nineteenth century. The articles frequently note variant traditions, disagreements among the authorities, and the interpretations of modern scholars. However, due to the variable numbering systems used in different editions of classical works, and
165-537: The difficulty of recognizing typographical errors in citations, the original sources should still be checked. Many of the Dictionary's articles have been referred to in more recent works; Robert Graves has been accused of cribbing his impressive-looking source references from it when writing The Greek Myths . Samuel Sharpe thought Edward Bunbury had plagiarised his work, as he wrote of in his diary entry on 3 September 1850: I certainly felt mortified on reading
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#1733092764877180-610: The editor, who was also the author of the unsigned articles. The other authors were classical scholars, primarily from Oxford , Cambridge , Rugby School , and the University of Bonn , but some were from other institutions. Many of the mythological entries were the work of the German expatriate Leonhard Schmitz , who helped to popularise German classical scholarship in Britain. With respect to biographies, Smith intended to be comprehensive. In
195-643: The first woman to host the Miss Italia beauty pageant. She is considered one of the most important women of Italian television and she's a top presenter of Rai 1 . This Italian biographical article related to television is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Urania Urania ( / j ʊəˈr eɪ n i ə / yoor- AY -nee-ə ; Ancient Greek : Οὐρανία , romanized : Ouranía ; modern Greek shortened name Ράνια Ránia ; meaning "heavenly" or "of heaven") was, in Greek mythology ,
210-570: The invocation to Book 7 of John Milton 's epic poem Paradise Lost , the poet invokes Urania to aid his narration of the creation of the cosmos, though he cautions that it is "[t]he meaning, not the name I call" (7.5) [REDACTED] This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Smith, William , ed. (1870). " Urania 1. ". Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology . Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology The Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
225-635: The preface, he writes: The biographical articles in this work include the names of all persons of any importance which occur in the Greek and Roman writers, from the earliest times down to the extinction of the Western Empire in the year 476 of our era, and to the extinction of the Eastern Empire by the capture of Constantinople by the Turks in the year 1453. Much of the value of the Dictionary consists not only in
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