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A small and poor community in a place that seems devastated by an atomic bombing. Even though in february 2009 the uranium mine was officially decommissioned and the entire area entered in a environmental program, as an irony of the faith, the uranium comes back home as radioactive waste.
The Children of Uranium by Saskia Boddeke and Peter Greenaway, music by Andrea Liberovici, was the inaugural event of the the Center for the Arts contemporary in 2005. 2005 is the World Year of Physics, the European Year of Scientists, the 100th anniversary of Einstein's first declaration of the principle of relativity, the 50iest anniversary of Einstein's death, and 60 years after the Hiroshima bomb.
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orthorhombic ( oS4) Uranium is a chemical element; it has symbol U and atomic number 92. It is a silvery-grey metal in the actinide series of the periodic table. A uranium atom has 92 protons and 92 electrons, of which 6 are valence electrons. Uranium radioactively decays, usually by emitting an alpha particle.
- The Cyclopes
- The Hecatonchires
- The Erinyes
- The Elder Muses
- The Gigantes
- The Telchines
- The Meliae
- The Curetes
- Aphrodite
- Uranus
These fearsome one-eyed giants helped the gods against the Titans. Their names were Arges, Brontes, and Steropes. The three of them crafted weapons for the gods, including Zeus’s thunderbolt.
Known as the Hundred Handed Ones, these three-headed, hundred-arms giants sided with the gods against the Titans. Their names were Cottus, Briareus, and Gyges. They were imprisoned by Uranus and freed by Zeus.
Also known as the Furies, Alecto, Megaera, and Tisiphone were agents of vengeance in the Underworld. Their job was to punish oath breakers, murderers, liars, and others who deserved their wrath. Sometimes they were instead the children of Hades and/or Nyx.
Before the Nine Muses, the original triad of muses consisted of Mneme (memory), Aoide (song), and Melete (contemplation)
These giants were born from the blood of Uranus’s sheared genitals sprinkled on Gaia’s soil. They were enemies of the Olympians and warred with them often. The named Gigantes were: 1. Agrius 2. Alcyoneus 3. Alektos 4. Aristaeus 5. Clytius 6. Damysus 7. Enceladus 8. Ephialtes 9. Euryalus Eurymedon 10. Eurytus 11. Gration 12. Hopladamus 13. Hippolytu...
These were the original inhabitants of Rhodes. Their father was Pontus, not Uranus, or they were born from the blood of Uranus’s genitals. Occasionally, they were the children of Poseidon, or of Tartarus and Nemesis. Their names were: 1. Damon 2. Lycus 3. Antaeus 4. Megalesius 5. Hormenius 6. Damnameneus 7. Skelmis 8. Mylas 9. Atabyrius 10. Mimon 1...
These were tree nymphs, specifically of the ash tree. Like the giants, they were formed from drops of Uranus’s blood. The Meliae were the nursemaids of Zeus while the child was being hidden from Kronos, helping to raise him to manhood. They were companions of the goat Amalthea and helped her to feed the child her milk along with honey. The Meliae w...
The legendary forebears of the Aeotolians who fought over the Calydonian Boar. This was a tribe, and not related to the Curetes who worshipped the Titaness Rhea and were associated with the Korybantes. Aetna A nymph, she was also a consort of Zeus or Hephaestus. Her father is sometimes also listed as Briareus or Oceanus. She was Sicilian and she se...
The Olympian goddess of love, sex, and beauty, Aphrodite was born from the blood of Uranus’s shorn genitals which fell in the sea. Her mother was not Gaia, but Thalassa, the personification of the ocean. In other accounts, Aphrodite is the daughter of Zeus and Dione.
Uranus himself was Gaia’s son before he was her husband, born by parthenogenesis. In other versions of the myth, he is the son of Aether and Hemera, Elium and Beruth, or simply by Nyx.
The old people from Baita-Plai, retired from the uranium mine nearby remember how many decades ago the Russians came and shortly thereafter they developed a small city and proceeded with the massive exploitation of the ore.
Jun 21, 2024 · Uranium, radioactive chemical element of the actinoid series of the periodic table, atomic number 92. It is an important nuclear fuel. It is a dense, hard metallic element that is silvery white in color. It is ductile, malleable, and capable of taking a high polish. Learn more about uranium in this article.
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For The Children of Uranium, Greenaway has created an installation based on the 92 elements of the periodic table, a scenography with original music by Andrea Liberovici, for a series of performances dedicated to Isaac Newton, founder of modern science; Joseph Smith, founder of the Mormon religion, who was looking for gold and instead found uranium; Madame Curie, victim of the powers of radiation; Einstein, who discovered relativity; Oppenheimer, who developed the atomic bomb; Khrushchev ...
- Saskia Boddeke, Peter Greenaway
