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Deposition. References. External links. Leontia ( Greek: Λεοντία, fl. 610) was an empress of the Eastern Roman Empire as the wife of Phocas . Empress. Maurice reigned in the Byzantine Empire from 582 to 602. He led a series of Balkan campaigns and managed to successfully re-establish the Danube as a northern border for his state ( Limes Moesiae ).
Leontia. Name Related Ratings Comments. 64% Rating. Save. Gender Feminine. Usage Ancient Greek [1] Scripts Λεοντία ( Ancient Greek) Meaning & History. Expand Links. Feminine form of Leontios. This name was used among Byzantine royalty. Related Names. Family Tree Details. Leon, Leontios, Leontius.
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Leontia. rate this name. 4.5. Origin: greek. Name Root: léōn > Leóntios. Meaning:* This name derives from the Ancient Greek name “Leóntios (Λεόντιος),“ from “léōn (λέων),” meaning “lion.” In turn, the name means “like a lion, belonging to Leontius.”
Themes and influences. Flynn has written about family and psychological inheritance, as well as about her father's Alzheimer's disease. [3] Her poems also sometimes address technology. She has described the sonnets in Drives as ‘wikipedia poems’.
Leontia Flynn was born in County Down in 1974, and completed a Ph.D. at Queen's University, Belfast. In 2001 she won an Eric Gregory Award. Her first collection, These Days (2004), won the Forward Poetry Prize (Best First Collection of the Year) in 2004, and was shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Award.
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Born in County Down, northern Irish poet Leontia Flynn earned an MA at Edinburgh and a PhD in English on the poetry of Medbh McGuckian at Queen’s University Belfast. Influenced by Philip Larkin, Flynn often makes use of received formal structures as she studies the scaffold of a life with dark…
In Leontia Flynn's "The Furthest Distances I've Travelled," a speaker recalls the thrill of backpacking across the world and wonders how they ended up settling down into a more ordinary life. But even though their globetrotting days are behind them, the speaker's life is still filled with adventure: building close relationships, the poem ...
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