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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Eidolon \Ei*do"lon\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? image. See Idol.]
An image or representation; a form; a phantom; an apparition.
--Sir W. Scott.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1801, "a shade, a specter," from Greek eidolon "appearance, reflection in water or a mirror," later "mental image, apparition, phantom," also "material image, statue, image of a god, idol," from eidos "form, shape" (see -oid). By 1881 in English as "a likeness, an image."
Wiktionary
n. 1 An image or representation of an idea; a representation of an ideal form; an apparition of some actual or imaginary entity, or of some aspect of reality. 2 A phantom, a ghost or elusive entity.
n. (alternative spelling of eidolon English)
Wikipedia
Eidolon may refer to:
- Eidolon (apparition), a spirit-image of a living or dead person in ancient Greek thought
In business:
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Eidolon Publications, a small press publisher based in North Perth, Western Australia
- Eidolon (magazine), a speculative fiction magazine published by Eidolon Publications
- Eidolon Books, the book publishing arm of Eidolon Publications
In music:
- Eidolon (band), a heavy metal band
- Eidolon (album), an album by black metal band Dark Fortress
- "Eidolon", a track and single by Karnivool off the album Asymmetry
In video games:
- The Eidolon, a computer game from the 1980s by Lucasfilm Games
- Eidolons, a type of Summoned monsters in several Final Fantasy games
- Eidolon of the Outer Dark, a raid boss in The Secret World game.
- Death Rally, a computer game from 1996 by Remedy Entertainment has a racing track with this name
Other:
- Eidolon (genus), a genus of bat
- Eidolon I, a 2006 speculative fiction anthology edited by Jonathan Strahan and Jeremy G. Byrne
- James Bond 007: Eidolon, a James Bond comic book by Dynamite Entertainment
In ancient Greek literature, an eidolon (plural: eidola or eidolons) ( Greek εἴδωλον: "image, idol, double, apparition, phantom, ghost") is a spirit-image of a living or dead person; a shade or phantom look-alike of the human form. The concept of Helen of Troy's eidolon was explored both by Homer and Euripides. However, where Homer uses the concept as a free-standing idea that gives Helen life after death, Euripides entangles it with the idea of kleos, one being the product of the other. Both Euripides and Stesichorus, in their respective works concerning the Trojan Horse, claim that Helen was never physically present in the city at all.
The concept of the eidola of the dead was explored in various literature regarding Penelope, who in later works was constantly laboring against the eidola of Clytamnestra and later Helen herself.
Homer's use of eidola also extends to the Odyssey where, after the death of the suitors, Theoclymenos notes that he sees the doorway of the court filled with them.
The Greek concept of an Eidolon and its worldly effects was later used as the subject of Walt Whitman's poem by the same name in 1876.
In Theosophy, the astral double or perispirit or kamarupa after death, before its disintegration is identified with the eidolon.
Eidolon was a Canadian power metal band formed in 1993 by brothers Shawn and Glen Drover (who both went on to become members of Megadeth). The band was signed to Metal Blade Records, but was let go in 2004, in part because of a refusal to tour. Eidolon signed soon after to Escapi Records. The band has released seven studio albums to date. In 2005 Eidolon announced the addition of new vocalist Nils K. Rue ( Pagan's Mind).
In an 2010 interview, founder and drummer Shawn Drover said he had no plans to record another album with the band. "No. Why make another album that nobody buys? We did six records and that band got us [himself and brother Glen] into Megadeth, so I will always be thankful. I’ll never say anything bad about it. Glen and I did that band, but doing six records that didn’t sell and doing another one wouldn’t make any sense...I’ll do something with Glen, but it won’t be that. It would be something totally different because I don’t want to go backwards. I want to keep going forward."
Eidolon is an album by the German melodic black metal band Dark Fortress. This is the first album with Nassos as a real band member. Morean already appeared on Séance as the composer of the song Incide and the arranger of the string section used in the song While They Sleep. The reason he became a member was based on his musical and vocal abilities, his personage and dedication to extreme and dark music. He is responsible for the lyrical concept of Eidolon.
This release is a concept album based on the Greek idea of an astral double, which is similar to the German concept of a doppelgänger.
Usage examples of "eidolon".
Man is essentially an idolater,--that is, in bondage to his imagination,-- for there is no more harm in the Greek word eidolon than in the Latin word imago.
Therein walk only daemons and mad things that are no longer men, and the streets are white with the unburied bones of those who have looked upon the eidolon Lathi, that reigns over the city.
Bandar knew the dark eidolon was not the real Gabbris, was in fact a projected reification of those negative qualities that Bandar rejected in his own makeup.
Among them was the eidolon of Trandilar, great Queen, Goddess of beguilement and passion.
The North Steeple would be left in silence for a season or two, at least until the concentration of revenants, eidolons, and ghosts of the dead ensnared by the architecture grew too dense again, and then North would soldier through in bitter silence until the psychopomp again appeared.
I suppose, for you see I was already fairly well read in modern science, and these old Greek philosophies set me thinking backwards, unwinding and unlearning, and getting at that eidolon which is not to be found in the mechanical heavens of this age.
Around all these autochthons, real and self-imagined, were a score of other figures not less absurd—officers dressed as women and women dressed as soldiers, eclectics as fraudulent as the autochthons, gymnosophists, ablegates and their acolytes, eremites, eidolons, zoanthrops half beast and half human, and deodands and remontados in picturesque rags, with eyes painted wild.
And nobody was shooting at you: instead of a war-torn city, the world in the Eidolon goggles was a sort of playroom with toys, like a bouncing ball you could toss or bat around, and a magic mushroom that, if you poked at it, made violets and dandelions sprout up out of the floor.
I told you it had padded mechanically toward me out of the narrow passage and had stood sentry-like at the entrance between the frightful eidola of Yig and Tulu.
They have been poisoned, driven mad by the pursuit of those hypocritical eidolons: generosity and love for their fellowman.
And while the Amnan claimed that the blue lights sometimes seen floating amongst the ruins below the peel-house were wights, the eidolons of the restless dead, Zakiel said that they were no more than wisps of burning marsh gas.