- monks. The brotherhood's
symbol is the
taphos, a
monogram of the Gr****
letters tau (Τ) and phi (Φ), for the word
taphos (τάφος,
meaning "sepulchre, grave")...
- In
Homeric Greece, the
islands of
Taphos /ˈteɪˌfɒs/ (Τάφος) lay in the
Ionian Sea off the
coast of
Acarnania in
northwestern Greece, home of
seagoing and...
-
founded the city
Taphos on the
island of the same name, and was its king. He also gave his name to the Taphians, a
people that
inhabited Taphos and
nearby islands...
- (epitáphios) 'a
funeral oration'; from ἐπι- (epi-) 'at, over' and τάφος (
táphos) 'tomb') is a
short text
honoring a
deceased person.
Strictly speaking,...
-
brothers who did not die at the
hands of the sons of King
Pterelaus of
Taphos. When
rancorous Alcmena arrived at Thebes, she
declared that she
would not...
-
decomposition is
generally referred to as
taphonomy from the Gr**** word
taphos,
meaning tomb.
Decomposition begins at the
moment of death,
caused by two...
-
dwelling for a time on the mainland, the
Teleboans settled on the
island of
Taphos which was po****ted by
their kinsmen. From the
island the two
tribes led...
-
Dionysus who fled
there from Euboea. Some
scholars have ****erted that
Corfu is
Taphos, the
island of the
Lelegian Taphians.
According to
Strabo (VI, 269), the...
-
preserved in the
paleontological record. The term
taphonomy (from Gr****
táphos, τάφος 'burial' and nomos, νόμος 'law') was
introduced to
paleontology in...
- The wall
behind the
stone is
defined by its
striking blue
balconies and
taphos symbol-bearing red
banners (depicting the
insignia of the
Brotherhood of...
