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Synostosis
Synostosis Syn`os*to"sis, n. [NL.] Same as Synosteosis.

Meaning of Nostos from wikipedia

- Nostos (Ancient Gr****: νόστος, romanized: nostos) is a theme used in Ancient Gr**** literature, which includes an epic hero returning home, often by sea...
- Nostos: The Return (Italian: Nostos: Il ritorno) is a 1989 Italian adventure drama film directed by Franco Piavoli, starring Luigi Mezzanotte [it] and...
- Ulysses is a modernist novel by the Irish writer James Joyce. Partially serialized in the American journal The Little Review from March 1918 to December...
- heroic battle. Yet Achilles must choose only one of the two rewards, either nostos or kleos. In Book 9 (9.410–16), he poignantly tells Agamemnon's envoys—Odysseus...
- (Ancient Gr****: νόστος, nostos) is a central theme of the Odyssey. Anna Bonafazi of the University of Cologne writes that, in Homer, nostos is "return home from...
- Prabhu Nosto Ho Jai (English: Lord, I Am Rotting Away) is a 2007 Bengali film directed and produced by Agnidev Chatterjee. The entire movie was shot in...
- nostalgia is a learned formation of a Gr**** compound, consisting of νόστος (nóstos), meaning "homecoming", a Homeric word, and ἄλγος (álgos), meaning "pain"...
- translit. mêtis, lit. "cunning intelligence"). He is most famous for his nostos, or "homecoming", which took him ten eventful years after the decade-long...
- The poem comprised five books of verse in dactylic hexameter. The word nostos means "return home". Both the date of composition of the Nostoi and the...
- battlefields of Troy while the Odyssey is the ten-year quest of Odysseus' nostos (or return journey). Telemachus fears that he has been deprived of kleos...