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Modern mythographers have seen the story of Orion as a way to access local folk tales and cultic practices directly without the interference of ancient high culture ; several of them have explained Orion , each through his own interpretation of Greek prehistory and of how Greek mythology represents it . There are some... |
There was a movement in the late nineteenth century to interpret all the Boeotian heroes as merely personifications of the constellations ; there has since come to be wide agreement that the myth of Orion existed before there was a constellation named for him . Homer , for example , mentions Orion , the Hunter , and O... |
The 19th @-@ century German classical scholar Erwin Rohde viewed Orion as an example of the Greeks erasing the line between the gods and mankind . That is , if Orion was in the heavens , other mortals could hope to be also .
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The Hungarian mythographer Karl Kerényi , one of the founders of the modern study of Greek mythology , wrote about Orion in Gods of the Greeks ( 1951 ) . Kerényi portrays Orion as a giant of Titanic vigor and criminality , born outside his mother as were Tityos or Dionysus . Kerényi places great stress on the variant ... |
In Dionysus ( 1976 ) , Kerényi portrays Orion as a shamanic hunting hero , surviving from Minoan times ( hence his association with Crete ) . Kerényi derives Hyrieus ( and Hyria ) from the Cretan dialect word ὕρον - hyron , meaning " beehive " , which survives only in ancient dictionaries . From this association he tu... |
Joseph Fontenrose wrote Orion : the Myth of the Hunter and the Huntress ( 1981 ) to show Orion as the type specimen of a variety of grotesque hero . Fontenrose views him as similar to Cúchulainn , that is , stronger , larger , and more potent than ordinary men and the violent lover of the Divine Huntress ; other heroe... |
In The Greek Myths ( 1955 ) , Robert Graves views Oenopion as his perennial Year @-@ King , at the stage where the king pretends to die at the end of his term and appoints a substitute , in this case Orion , who actually dies in his place . His blindness is iconotropy from a picture of Odysseus blinding the Cyclops , ... |
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The ancient Greek and Roman sources which tell more about Orion than his being a gigantic huntsman are mostly both dry and obscure , but poets do write of him : The brief passages in Aratus and Vergil are mentioned above . Pindar celebrates the pancratist Melissus of Thebes " who was not granted the build of an Orion ... |
Cicero translated Aratus in his youth ; he made the Orion episode half again longer than it was in the Greek , adding the traditional Latin topos of madness to Aratus 's text . Cicero 's Aratea is one of the oldest Latin poems to come down to us as more than isolated lines ; this episode may have established the techn... |
Orion is used by Horace , who tells of his death at the hands of Diana / Artemis , and by Ovid , in his Fasti for May 11 , the middle day of the Lemuria , when ( in Ovid 's time ) the constellation Orion set with the sun . Ovid 's episode tells the story of Hyrieus and the three gods , although Ovid is bashful about t... |
Statius mentions Orion four times in his Thebaïd ; twice as the constellation , a personification of storm , but twice as the ancestor of Dryas of Tanagra , one of the defenders of Thebes . The very late Greek epic poet Nonnus mentions the oxhide story in brief , while listing the Hyrians in his Catalogue of the Boeot... |
References since antiquity are fairly rare . At the beginning of the 17th century , French sculptor Barthélemy Prieur cast a bronze statue Orion et Cédalion , some time between 1600 and 1611 . This featured Orion with Cedalion on his shoulder , in a depiction of the ancient legend of Orion recovering his sight ; the s... |
Nicolas Poussin painted Paysage avec Orion aveugle cherchant le soleil ( 1658 ) ( " Landscape with blind Orion seeking the sun " ) , after learning of the description by the 2nd @-@ century Greek author Lucian , of a picture of Orion recovering his sight ; Poussin included a storm @-@ cloud , which both suggests the t... |
In Endymion ( 1818 ) , John Keats includes the line " Or blind Orion hungry for the morn " , thought to be inspired by Poussin . William Hazlitt may have introduced Keats to the painting — he later wrote the essay " On Landscape of Nicholas Poussin " , published in Table Talk , Essays on Men and Manners ( 1821 @-@ 2 )... |
Science fiction author Ben Bova re @-@ invented Orion as a time @-@ traveling servant of various gods in a series of five novels . In The Blood of Olympus , the final volume of a series , Rick Riordan depicts Orion as one of the giant sons of the Earth Goddess Gaea .
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Italian composer Francesco Cavalli wrote the opera , L 'Orione in 1653 . The story is set on the Greek island of Delos and focuses on Diana 's love for Orion as well as on her rival , Aurora . Diana shoots Orion only after being tricked by Apollo into thinking him a sea monster — she then laments his death and searche... |
The twentieth @-@ century French poet René Char found the blind , lustful huntsman , both pursuer and pursued , a central symbol , as James Lawler has explained at some length in his 1978 work René Char : the Myth and the Poem . French novelist Claude Simon likewise found Orion an apt symbol , in this case of the writ... |
= Yours Truly ( Ariana Grande album ) =
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Yours Truly is the debut studio album by American singer Ariana Grande . It was released on August 30 , 2013 , by Republic Records . Incorporating R & B , Yours Truly was influenced by Whitney Houston , Amy Winehouse , Christina Aguilera and Mariah Carey , amongst other of Grande 's greatest idols . Grande describes t... |
Yours Truly was promoted with live renditions of the album 's songs during The Listening Sessions Tour . The album was preceded by the release of the lead single , " The Way " , featuring American rapper Mac Miller . It became a top @-@ ten hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart , peaking at number nine . The second ... |
Yours Truly debuted at number one on the U.S. Billboard 200 selling 138 @,@ 000 copies in its opening week . Grande became the first female artist in three and a half years to have her debut record in the peak position since Animal by Kesha in January 2010 , and the fifteenth female artist overall . Internationally , ... |
= = Background and conception = =
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Yours Truly is the result of three years of work . The project underwent significant conceptual and sonic changes throughout that time . Grande began working on the album in August 2010 while she was filming Victorious and formally started to work on it with a record label after she was signed to Republic Records on A... |
In 2013 , Grande met up with her label and expressed dissatisfaction with the direction the album was taking . In several interviews during 2013 , she admitted to having completely disliked her debut single " Put Your Hearts Up " and not having an interest in pursuing music of that genre . She expressed a desire to ma... |
The album is inspired by a variety of different artists , ranging from Amy Winehouse and Christina Aguilera to Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston . Grande describes the album 's first half is a " throwback " to the R & B music of the 1990s , and the second half is she describes as " something that is very unique and ver... |
= = Release and promotion = =
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To promote her debut single " The Way " , Grande visited various radio stations , including : Y @-@ 100 Miami , 93 @.@ 3 FM , Z100 , KIIS @-@ FM , and 99 – 7 Now . Grande performed " The Way " at several concerts produced for Top 40 radio stations , including KIIS @-@ FM 's Wango Tango concert on May 11 , 2013 in Los ... |
On August 1 , 2013 , Grande revealed the official artwork for Yours Truly , which features her kneeling on a bed of roses in front of a pink background . Due to fan criticism , she quickly unveiled a new cover , which simply featured the singer standing beneath a spotlight in a black @-@ and @-@ white image . On Augus... |
Grande performed " The Way " and " Baby I " at the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards ' Preshow on August 25 , 2013 . During the album 's release week Grande also performed " The Way " with Mac Miller on the Today Show along with " Tattooed Heart " on September 3 , 2013 , she also performed the latter at the 2013 Style Award... |
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Grande embarked on her first solo concert tour titled The Listening Sessions in support of Yours Truly . Pre @-@ sale tickets went on sale on July 18 , 2013 . Regular tickets went on sale on July 19 . Pre @-@ sale tickets had to be taken down early , as they were selling at such a fast rate that the tour was almost so... |
= = Singles = =
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" The Way " was released to digital retailers through Republic Records in the United States on March 26 , 2013 as the album 's official lead single . It was written by the song 's producer Harmony Samuels , alongside Amber Streeter , Al Sherrod Lambert , Jordin Sparks , Brenda Russell and Mac Miller , who is also feat... |
" Baby I " was released to digital retailers by Republic Records on July 22 , 2013 , as the second single from the album . It was written and produced by Kenneth " Babyface " Edmonds , Antonio Dixon and Patrick " J. Que " Smith . The song sold 141 @,@ 000 copies in its first week and debuted at number 21 on the Billbo... |
" Right There " featuring Big Sean , was released to digital retailers by Republic Records on August 6 , 2013 , as the third and final single from the album . It was written by Grande , Carmen Reece , Lonny Bereal , James " J @-@ Doe " Smith , Trey Starxx , Al Sherrod Lambert , Sean Anderson , Jeff Lorber , and Harmon... |
= = Critical reception = =
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At Metacritic , which assigns a weighted average score out of 100 based on ratings and reviews from mainstream critics , the album received an average of 81 , based on 9 reviews , indicating " universal acclaim " . At AllMusic , Matt Collar rated the album four stars out of five , saying that Yours Truly was " surpris... |
Writing in his track @-@ by @-@ track review Jason Lipshutz from Billboard rated the album an eighty @-@ six out of 100 , saying that " Yours Truly carries the expectations of a young singer who has already proven herself on the pop charts , and even if the songs on her debut could not equal the quality of " The Way ,... |
= = Commercial performance = =
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On September 4 , 2013 , Billboard reported that Yours Truly would most likely sell between 110 @,@ 000 and 120 @,@ 000 copies in its first week in the United States by the end of September 11 , 2013 . After Yours Truly was released , the album went to number one on the iTunes Store charts in over 30 countries , includ... |
Yours Truly also debuted in the top ten in several other countries , including Australia , where it debuted at number 6 , the United Kingdom , where it debuted at number 7 , Ireland , where it debuted at number 6 , and the Netherlands , where it debuted at number 5 . It also debuted just outside the top ten on New Zea... |
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^ [ a ] denotes a co @-@ producer
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^ [ b ] denotes a vocal producer
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^ [ c ] denotes an additional producer
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^ [ d ] denotes a remixer
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" Right There " features a prominent sample of the 1979 jazz instrumental song " Rain Dance " by The Jeff Lorber Fusion
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" Lovin ' It " embodies portions of " Real Love " performed by Mary J. Blige , written by Mark Morales , Mark C. Rooney , Kirk Robinson , Nat Robinson Jr . , and Roy Hammond .
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" The Way " interpolates the piano melody from Russell 's " A Little Bit of Love " and lyrics from Big Pun 's " Still Not a Player " .
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" Popular Song " is a cover , based on the song " Popular " from the Broadway musical Wicked .
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Adapted from AllMusic and album liner notes .
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= Russian battleship Sevastopol ( 1911 ) =
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Sevastopol ( Russian : Севастополь ) was the first ship completed of the Gangut @-@ class battleships of the Imperial Russian Navy , built before World War I. The Ganguts were the first class of Russian dreadnoughts . She was named after the Siege of Sevastopol during the Crimean War . She was completed during the win... |
She was recommissioned in 1925 , and refitted in 1928 in preparation for her transfer to the Black Sea the following year . Parizhskaya Kommuna and the cruiser Profintern ran into a severe storm in the Bay of Biscay that severely damaged Parizhskaya Kommuna 's false bow . They had to put into Brest for repairs , but r... |
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