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US
/məˈnɝvə, mɪˈnɝvə/
]
NOUN
- (Roman mythology) goddess of wisdom; counterpart of Greek Athena
How To Use Minerva In A Sentence
- Some Indian Ceres or Minerva must have been the inventor and bestower of it; and when the reign of poetry commences here, its leaves and string of nuts may be represented on our works of art.
- Minerva has noticed a growing enthusiasm for using infant bath seats in adult bathtubs.
- One of the stars of the collection is the Diana and Minerva commode of 1773, so called for the inlaid roundels representing the goddesses of the hunt and the arts, respectively.
- Embroidery_, mentions 'Arachne', it is obvious that he does not expect the reader to think of the daring challenger of Minerva's art, or the Proserpine and Midas
- The actor was recently seen at the Minerva Theatre in Chichester playing William Shakespeare in the Edward Bond play Bingo. Pink is the New Blog | Everybody's Business Is My Business » Blog Archive » Patrick Stewart Knighted By Queen Elizabeth II
- This year, the firm has found another work by the artist - a depiction of Minerva, the goddess of wisdom and patroness the arts.
- These temples would have housed the cult statue of the deity, for example the head of Minerva found at Bath, and were not used for congregational worship.
- The centerpiece depicts the empress enthroned under a baldachin and surrounded by figures of Hercules, Minerva, Mars, and other gods celebrating her military achievements.
- The Romans identified her with Minerva, a goddess of the household and of craftsmen.
- Note 13: In the first passage of De pictura, Alberti borrows a Ciceronian proverb (from De amicitia 5.16) concerning the "coarse senses of Minerva" to distinguish the sensate knowledge of a painter from a mathematician's abstract mensurations (see Kemp, "Introduction," 12). Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro