Wooden vs Xoanon - What's the difference?
wooden | xoanon |
Made of wood.
* , chapter=12
, title= (label) As if made of wood, moving awkwardly, unmoving.
(historical) A wooden statue used as a cult image in Ancient Greece.
* 1913', E. A. Gardner, "Reviews: Catalogue of the Acropolis Museum", ''The Classical Review'', ' 27 , page 196
* 1993 , Joan V. O'Brien, The Transformation of Hera: A Study of Ritual, Hero, and the Goddess in the Iliad, page 19
* 2009 , Peter Wilson, "Thamyris the Thracian: the archetypal wandering poet?", in'' Richard Hunter & ?Ian Rutherford (editors), ''Wandering Poets in Ancient Greek Culture , page 73
As an adjective wooden
is made of wood.As a noun xoanon is
(historical) a wooden statue used as a cult image in ancient greece.wooden
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* (l) (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs, […], and all these articles […] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.}}
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* English adjectives ending in -enxoanon
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(wikipedia xoanon)Noun
(xoana)- In the case of 679, the well-known female figure of xoanon shape, it is often asserted that we see a more or less archaistic survival;
- Callimachus' description of the Samian xoanon'' as a ''sanis''—a flat board or plank regularly used for doors or wooden tablets—and specifically as "not carved by chisels" (''gluphanôn axoos sanis ) clearly indicates an aniconic Hera of Samos.
- On Carlo Brillante's convincing interpretation, Thamyras is here attempting not simply to display his musical virtuosity, but to animate with his song this chorus of nine female xoana , his own personal substitutes for the nine real Muses
