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- Tryphé (Gr****: τρυφή) – variously glossed as "softness", "voluptuousness", "magnificence" and "extravagance", none fully adequate – is a concept that drew...
- Antiochus XI's portrait was part of the tryphé-king tradition, heavily used by Antiochus VIII. The ruler's portrait express tryphé (luxury and magnificence), where...
- ****ociated with the royal ideal of o****nce and luxury, known in Gr**** as tryphe, which Ptolemy IV wished to cultivate. Several new festivals of Dionysus...
- his argument that luxury leads to catastrophe. This concept was called tryphé and was a po****r belief in his time, at the turn of the 2nd century AD...
- (forgetfulness), Misoponia (laziness), Hedone (pleasure), Anoia (dementia), Tryphe (wantonness), and two gods, Komos (intemperance) and Nigretos Hypnos (heavy...
- This was, however, a conscious image invoking the ****enistic concept of Tryphe - meaning good life, which the last Seleucids strove to be ****ociated with...
- Autocrator. 'Tryphon' referred to the ****enistic royal virtue of tryphe (luxury). Tryphe was sometimes a negative attribute, implying softness, but could...
- Cyrene, Ptolemy VIII attempted to display the ****enistic royal virtue of tryphe (luxury). The main priesthood in Cyrene was the position of the priest of...
- Dialogues Grecs (Five Short Gr**** Dialogues, 1901), under the pseudonym Tryphé. The name came from the works of Pierre Louÿs, who helped edit and revise...
- as a boy took care of geese. His name is derived from the Gr**** τρυφή (tryphe) meaning "softness, delicacy". He acquired fame as a healer, especially...