eidolon
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The most famous eidolon appeared in Greek literature as the likeness of another Helen - Helen of Troy.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 27, 2017
Helen doesn’t ask anyone at Prime Space to explain her mission’s name, Eidolon, but if she’d checked Wikipedia, she would have learned that an eidolon is a phantom in human form.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 27, 2017
Contrast the Belvedere with the Venus de Milo, the very eidolon of the female form, the Queen of the Loves; the head too small for great intellect but big enough for the greatest love.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then again, only four days ago he had been controlled by an eidolon and almost killed Percy Jackson.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
“Sorry for what? It was the eidolon who attacked—” “Not about that.”
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
At the close of the prescribed period they are reunited, and their fortunate lover, who has hitherto been distracted between the twelve eidola, is blessed with the compound Rosanie.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by George Saintsbury
Among his eidola of the den, the tribe, the forum, the theatre, etc.,
From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 1 January 1848 by Robert Taylor Conrad
She was laughing now, but with all the gay coquetry of youth, not merely the eidola of her own.
From Mrs. Balfame A Novel by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
The strong imagination which perceives definitely and realises vividly will not tolerate that obscurity so dear to all those who worship the eidola of the cave.
From Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. by Standish O'Grady
They gathered around the dining table, and Piper explained what had happened at Topeka 32—their conversation with Bacchus, the trap sprung by Gaea, the eidolons that had possessed the boys.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
He wondered if the eidolons might just leave those bodies behind, seep underground, and possess one of them instead.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
After their experience with the eidolons, she didn’t like the idea of approaching a ghost, especially one that changed people with bad news or prophecies.
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
She’d made the eidolons appear, but what now?
From "The Mark of Athena" by Rick Riordan
He scanned the crowds of tourists, wondering if they were regular mortals or monsters in disguise, like those eidolons who’d chased them in Rome.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
