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Archonte-roi

English translation: the King Archon

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French term or phrase:archonte-roi
English translation:the King Archon
Entered by: Polly McDonnell

21:22 Dec 12, 2002
French to English translations [PRO]
Art/Literary - Folklore / Greek mythology
French term or phrase: Archonte-roi
Avait lieu ensuite, au sanctuaire appelé le Boukoleion, une hiérogamie, union de l’Archonte-Roi et de sa femme représentant l’union de Dionysos et de la Basilinna, l’ancienne reine d’Athènes.
Polly McDonnell
France
Local time: 13:16
"king Archon" or "King Archon" or "king-archon"
Explanation:
Mission: Critical (Notes for "Euthyphro") - [ Traduire cette page ]
... porch of the King Archon: an outer room or hall of a building. ... In the Parthenon, some
parts of the frieze represent battles of Greek mythology, as portrayed on ...
www.sjsu.edu/depts/itl/graphics/apps/euthnote.html

... Greek mythology hardly admitted of the distinction between ... in which the popular representations
of mythology are denounced ... SCENE: The Porch of the King Archon. ...
tanaya.net/Books/uthph10/index1.html -

... and Socrates are represented as meeting in the porch of the King Archon. ... Greek mythology
hardly admitted of the distinc- tion between accidental homicide and ...
www.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/plato/euthyphr.pdf

afterworld - [ Traduire cette page ]
... Day 2: king archon (a city official ... 2) Discuss how the iconography of Demeter
and Persephone/Kore relates to their mythology and Greek marriage and/or ...
www.utexas.edu/courses/nestor/outline_2-24.html - 9k - En cache - Pages similaires

AREOI - [ Traduire cette page ]
... On receiving the accusation the king-archon by se oclamation warned the accused to keep ... to ARES, in ancient Greek mythology, the god of war, or rather th battle ...
87.1911encyclopedia.org/A/AR/AREOI.htm -
Selected response from:

Francis MARC
Lithuania
Local time: 14:16
Grading comment
I'll use "The King Archon", based on the various references you provided me with, and keeping in mind Yolanda's advice concerning the article. Thankyou for your help.
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
4 +2Archon-King
João Carlos Pijnappel
5 +1the King Archon
Yolanda Broad
5Expanding on Yolanda's
Christopher Crockett
4"king Archon" or "King Archon" or "king-archon"
Francis MARC


  

Answers


3 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
Archon-King


Explanation:
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João Carlos Pijnappel
Local time: 08:16
Native speaker of: Portuguese

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Lucien Marcelet
1 hr
agree  Yolanda Broad: Note that "the King Archon" is not a "name," but a designation, which is why the article "the" is used. 575 Google hits, vs 8 for "Archon King"!
6 hrs
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17 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
"king Archon" or "King Archon" or "king-archon"


Explanation:
Mission: Critical (Notes for "Euthyphro") - [ Traduire cette page ]
... porch of the King Archon: an outer room or hall of a building. ... In the Parthenon, some
parts of the frieze represent battles of Greek mythology, as portrayed on ...
www.sjsu.edu/depts/itl/graphics/apps/euthnote.html

... Greek mythology hardly admitted of the distinction between ... in which the popular representations
of mythology are denounced ... SCENE: The Porch of the King Archon. ...
tanaya.net/Books/uthph10/index1.html -

... and Socrates are represented as meeting in the porch of the King Archon. ... Greek mythology
hardly admitted of the distinc- tion between accidental homicide and ...
www.hn.psu.edu/faculty/jmanis/plato/euthyphr.pdf

afterworld - [ Traduire cette page ]
... Day 2: king archon (a city official ... 2) Discuss how the iconography of Demeter
and Persephone/Kore relates to their mythology and Greek marriage and/or ...
www.utexas.edu/courses/nestor/outline_2-24.html - 9k - En cache - Pages similaires

AREOI - [ Traduire cette page ]
... On receiving the accusation the king-archon by se oclamation warned the accused to keep ... to ARES, in ancient Greek mythology, the god of war, or rather th battle ...
87.1911encyclopedia.org/A/AR/AREOI.htm -


Francis MARC
Lithuania
Local time: 14:16
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 8
Grading comment
I'll use "The King Archon", based on the various references you provided me with, and keeping in mind Yolanda's advice concerning the article. Thankyou for your help.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  João Carlos Pijnappel: Archon-King is more appropriate, King Archon looks like a king whose name was Archon
4 mins
agree  Yolanda Broad: Note that this is not a "name," but a designation, which is why the article "the" is used. 575 Google hits, vs 8 for "Archon King"!
5 hrs
neutral  Christopher Crockett: Of your three possibilities,only "king-archon" can be correct. As João notes, "King Archon" implies a king named "Archon," obviously not the case at all. Further to Yolanda's point :"The king-archon." Even so, some supplemental explanation could be added.
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6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): +1
the King Archon


Explanation:
Note that I have included the article in my answer...

My "disagree" to the first answerer seems to have switched itself to an "agree." Not my intention! In fact, the nine "Archons," including the "King Archon," are discussed at length in numerous texts on the Internet. Francis has given you some. You might want to take a look at some others at the following Google search results URL:


    Reference: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=%22the+ki...
Yolanda Broad
United States
Local time: 07:16
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Christopher Crockett: Yes, though I prefer a hyphen, "The King-Archon" if we are to capitalise "archon." Anything to clarify the ambiguity. Definitely NOT a king named "Archon."
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17 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
Expanding on Yolanda's


Explanation:
On the history (mythological and otherwise) of the institution of the archons, see :

http://plato-dialogues.org/tools/loc/athens.htm#institutions

(Halfway down the page, the section on the last legendary king, Codrus.)

As Robert Graves points out (perhaps too frequently) in his _The Greek Myths_, virtually all proper names from Greek "mythology" had a more or less specific meaning, in and of themselves.

Thus, there was no more a king named "Archon" than there was an "ancienne reine d’Athènes" named "Basilinna" (Basileus being Greek for "king").

Or, for that matter, Christian saints named "Christopher" [_Christophoros_ = "Christ-carrier"], "Longinus" [="spear"], "Foi" [_fides_="faith"], etc.

Christopher Crockett
Local time: 07:16
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
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