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    Martin Persson Nilsson (Stoby, Kristianstad County, 12 July 1874 – Lund, 7 April 1967) was a Swedish philologist, mythographer, and a scholar of the Greek...
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    University Press. ISBN 978-0-8014-2473-1. p. 64. M. Reinhold, The Generation Gap in Antiquity, 349 Martin P. Nilsson (1927) The Minoan-Mycenaean Religion and...
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  • and called them after their own names (Rome, Antium, and Ardea). Martin P. Nilsson speculates that this foundation story became an embarrassment as Rome...
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    East, p. 514. American Historical Association. Martin Nilsson (1967). Die Geschichte der griechischen Religion. Vol. 1. C. F. Beck, Munich, p. 499 f...
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    Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-19-530805-1. Martin P. Nilsson, Greek Popular Religion, 1940. Sacred-texts.com Nilsson Martin P. Die Geschichte der Griechieschen...
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  • football player Malin Nilsson (born 1973), Swedish freestyle swimmer Magnus Nilsson (born 1984), Swedish chef Martin P. Nilsson (1874–1967), Swedish philologist...
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    owl are uncertain. Some mythographers, such as David Kinsley and Martin P. Nilsson, suggest that she may descend from a Minoan palace goddess associated...
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    Harry Edward Nilsson III (June 15, 1941 – January 15, 1994), sometimes credited as Nilsson, was an American singer-songwriter who reached the peak of...
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    Retrieved 6 July 2012. Martin Nilsson (1967) Vol I, pp. 473–474. As in Burkert, Greek Religion (Harvard, 1985) p. 160. Martin Nilsson, Greek Popular Religion...
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  • Nilsson Schmilsson is the seventh studio album by American singer Harry Nilsson, released by RCA Records on November 11, 1971. It was Nilsson's most commercially...
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    Trees, Έλένα Δενδρῖτις); she was a vegetation or a fertility goddess. Martin P. Nilsson has argued that the cult in Rhodes has its roots to the Minoan, pre-Greek...
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  • long ago by Martin P. Nilsson)." Palaeolexicon. "di-wo-nu-so". Nilsson 1967, Volume I, pp. 565–568. Nilsson 1967, Volume I, p. 215. Nilsson 1967, Volume...
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    earlywritings.com, 2023) Pausanias, Description of Greece, viii. 36. § 3 Martin P. Nilsson, Greek Folk Religion. (Columbia University Press), 1981:33, 70, 73...
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    hunters' goddess," observes Martin P. Nilsson, "Fire-Festivals in Ancient Greece", The Journal of Hellenic Studies 43.2 (1923:144-148) p.144 note 2; Pseudo-Apollodorus...
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  • considered by everybody who studies ancient Greece. The philologist Martin P. Nilsson, who represented a rivaling approach where cult was placed at the...
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    Cambridge University Press, 1914, I, figs 397, 398. Dietrich 1973, noting Martin P. Nilsson, Minoan-Mycenaean Religion, and Its Survival in Greek Religion 1950:551...
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    Chicago Press 1946. pp. 105–106 Nilsson, Vol I, p. 470 Nilsson, Vol I, pp. 474, 475 Nilsson, Martin P. Greek Popular Religion "The Religion of Eleusis"...
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    strictly a virgin". (p 262); compare Wolfgang Fauth, Der Kleine Pauly (1954), s.v. "Athena"; a contrasting view is Martin P. Nilsson, Geschichte der Griechischen...
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    Romos, a son of Odysseus and Circe, was the one who founded Rome. Martin P. Nilsson speculates that this older story was becoming a bit embarrassing as...
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    Pelasgian myth of creation refers to snakes as the reborn dead. However, Martin P. Nilsson noticed that in the Minoan religion the snake was the protector of...
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  • Mithraic scholars such as Cumont, Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff, Martin P. Nilsson, and Walter Burkert do not identify the text as a Mithraic liturgy...
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    Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1983. ISBN 0-8078-4194-3. Martin P. Nilsson, Greek Popular Religion, 1940. Mark William Padilla, (editor), "Rites...
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    age-equivalent stratigraphic markers are, therefore, not applicable. In 1927, Martin P. Nilsson compared the style of the female figurine of Plate Α with those on...
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  • high cultures of Greek civilization: Minoan, Mycenaean and Hellenic. Martin P. Nilsson, Professor of Classical Archaeology, worked on the structure, origins...
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  • which is attested in other Greek calendars as well. According to Martin P. Nilsson, the Macedonian calendar is formed like a regular Greek one and the...
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  • Sigfrid Edström, Rolf von Heidenstam, Ivar Holmquist, Anton Johanson, Martin P. Nilsson, Torsten Tegnér, and Bertil Uggla. Martti Jukola was editor for Finland...
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  • Jump into the Fire (category Harry Nilsson songs)
    scene in Martin Scorsese's 1990 gangster thriller Goodfellas. Nilsson performs the song in the 1974 Apple film Son of Dracula, which stars Nilsson in the...
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  • from Elis, the so-called Iamidai". For the cultural context, see Martin P. Nilsson, Cults, Myths, Oracles and Politics in Ancient Greece (Lund) 1951...
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    Birgit Nilsson (17 May 1918 – 25 December 2005) was a Swedish dramatic soprano. Although she sang a wide repertoire of operatic and vocal works, Nilsson was...
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  • Nilsson Sings Newman is the fifth studio album by American singer-songwriter Harry Nilsson, released in February 1970 on RCA Victor. It features songs...
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