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Trapani (US: /ˈtrɑːpəni/ TRAH-pə-nee; Italian: [ˈtraːpani] ; Sicilian: Tràpani [ˈʈɽaːpanɪ]) is a city and muni****lity (comune) on the west
coast of Sicily...
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Drepane is a
genus of
marine and
brackish water ray-finned fishes,
known commonly as the sicklefishes. It is the only
genus in the
monotypic percomorph...
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Drepane punctata, the butterfish, concertinafish, jetto, peppercorn, sickle-fish,
silver moonfish,
spotted batfish,
spotted sicklefish,
sicklefish or...
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Drepane longimana,
commonly known as the
concertina fish,
barred sicklefish, or
banded sicklefish, is a fish
native to the Indo-Pacific and
northern Australia...
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since antiquity for its sickle-like shape, and gave it its
ancient name,
Drepane ("sickle").
While Hesiod seems to
imply Cronus never set them free to begin...
- The
African sicklefish (
Drepane africana) is a
species of ray-finned fish
belonging to the
family Drepaneidae, the sicklefishes. This fish is
found in...
- round-dancing. The
significant prize of the
competitions was an iron
sickle (
drepanē)
indicating that
Orthia was a
goddess of vegetation.
Sparta on the road...
- the Argonauts,
Alcinous is
represented as
living with his wife
Arete on
Drépané island. The Argonauts, on
their return from Colchis, came to his island...
- lies off the
coast of Thesprotia, Greece. Its
shape resembles a
sickle (
drepanē, δρεπάνι), to
which it was
compared by the ancients: the
concave side,...
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Apollonius Rhodius, who
composed Argonautica, only
refers to the
island as
Drepane but he does
mention its
connection with
Macris and Demeter.
Modern Scholars...
