Manes (disambiguation)
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Manes may refer to:
  • Manes
    Manes
    In ancient Roman religion, the Manes or Di Manes are chthonic deities sometimes thought to represent the souls of deceased loved ones. They were associated with the Lares, Genii, and Di Penates as deities that pertained to domestic, local, and personal cult...

    , the souls of deceased loved ones in Roman mythology

People

  • Manes (king), the first king of Maeonia
  • Manes, a slave of Diogenes of Sinope
    Diogenes of Sinope
    Diogenes the Cynic was a Greek philosopher and one of the founders of Cynic philosophy. Also known as Diogenes of Sinope , he was born in Sinope , an Ionian colony on the Black Sea , in 412 or 404 BCE and died at Corinth in 323 BCE.Diogenes of Sinope was a controversial figure...

    , who abandoned him after moving to Athens
    Athens
    Athens , is the capital and largest city of Greece. Athens dominates the Attica region and is one of the world's oldest cities, as its recorded history spans around 3,400 years. Classical Athens was a powerful city-state...

    . Manes was a common name in ancient Greece for Lydia
    Lydia
    Lydia was an Iron Age kingdom of western Asia Minor located generally east of ancient Ionia in the modern Turkish provinces of Manisa and inland İzmir. Its population spoke an Anatolian language known as Lydian....

    n slaves. Manes was also a fictional slave to Pisthetaerus in The Birds
    The Birds (play)
    The Birds is a comedy by the Ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes. It was performed in 414 BCE at the City Dionysia where it won second prize. It has been acclaimed by modern critics as a perfectly realized fantasy remarkable for its mimicry of birds and for the gaiety of its songs...

     by Aristophanes
  • Mani (prophet)
    Mani (prophet)
    Mani , of Iranian origin was the prophet and the founder of Manichaeism, a gnostic religion of Late Antiquity which was once widespread but is now extinct...

     (Latin: Manes), the founder of Manichaeism
  • Pablo Curatella Manes
    Pablo Curatella Manes
    Pablo Curatella Manes was a prolific Argentine sculptor.-Life and work:Born in La Plata in 1891 to Clara Manes, a Greek Argentine immigrant, and Antonio Curatella, from Italy, Curatella Manes first acquired an interest in sculpture during his frequent childhood visits to the newly-inaugurated La...

     (1891 - 1963), an Argentine painter; (fr)
  • Antonín Mánes
    Antonín Mánes
    Antonín Mánes was a Czech painter. The only pupil of Austrian painter Karl Postl, he was active as a landscapist. He was much influenced by painters of the Dutch Golden Age, such as Jacob van Ruisdael; he was also exposed to the work of Caspar David Friedrich and Johan Christian Clausen-Dahl,...

     (1784 - 1843), Czech painter; (cs)
  • Donald R. Manes (1934 - 1986), borough president of Queens
    Queens
    Queens is the easternmost of the five boroughs of New York City. The largest borough in area and the second-largest in population, it is coextensive with Queens County, an administrative division of New York state, in the United States....

    , New York
    New York
    New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

  • Édouard Manès
    Édouard Manès
    Édouard Manès was Governor General for Inde française in the Second French Colonial Empire under Third Republic.-Titles Held:...

     (1835 - 1898), governor general of French India; (fr)
  • Gina Manès
    Gina Manès
    Gina Manès was a French film actress.She appeared in the silent film Coeur fidèle , directed by Jean Epstein and played the title role in the film Thérèse Raquin directed by Jacques Feyder.A long career and lifeline Manes starred in some 90 films between 1903 and...

     (1893 - 1989), French film actress
  • Guillaume (also William) Manès (1798 - 1881), a French geologist, engineer; (fr)
  • Josef Mánes
    Josef Mánes
    Josef Mánes was a Czech painter.He was taught by his father, Antonín Mánes , who was a landscape painter and the professor of arts; in addition, he was the nephew of Václav Mánes, and brother of Quido Mánes and Amalie Mánesová, all of whom were also painters...

     (1820 - 1871), Czech painter
  • Philipp Manes (1875 – 1944), German fur trader, amateur author; (de)
  • Quido Mánes
    Quido Mánes
    Quido Mánes was a Czech painter. He was the son of Antonín Mánes, nephew of Václav Mánes, and brother of Josef Mánes and Amalie Mánesová, all of whom were also painters. Some of his work may today be seen in the collections of the National Gallery in Prague.-Reference:*Naděžda Blažíčková-Horová,...

     (1828 - 1880), Czech painter; (cs)
  • Amálie Mánesová
    Amalie Mánesová
    Amalie Mánesová was a Czech painter. She was the daughter of Antonín Mánes, niece of Václav Mánes, and sister of Josef and Quido Mánes, all of whom were also painters. Some of her work may today be seen in the collections of the National Gallery in Prague.-Reference:*Naděžda Blažíčková-Horová, ed...

    , a Czech painter
  • Manes Meckenstock (born 1961), Kabarettist; (de)
  • Joseph Manes Österreicher
    Joseph Manes Österreicher
    Joseph Manes Österreicher , Hungarian physician; born at Óbuda 1759; died at Vienna, December 14, 1831.He studied medicine, but could not practise until after the promulgation of the edict of toleration by Emperor Joseph II in 1781. He received his medical diploma in 1782...

     (1759-1831), Hungarian physician
  • Manès Sperber
    Manès Sperber
    Manès Sperber was an Austrian-French novelist, essayist and psychologist. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Jan Heger and N.A. Menlos....

     (1905 - 1984), a Polish Jewish writer

Places

  • Manes, Missouri
    Manes, Missouri
    Manes is an unincorporated community in Wright County, Missouri, United States, about 12 miles northeast of Hartville. Located on Route 95, several houses are located here, and at one time the town had a post office , though mail is now served by Mountain Grove.Manes takes its name from a Baptist...

  • Alaverdi
    Alaverdi
    Alaverdi formerly Manes, is a city situated in the northeast of the Armenian province of Lori, not far from the border with Georgia. This mining and industrial city with approximately 16,500 inhabitants -down from 26,300 of the 1989- situated at the bottom of the Debed river gorge, is one of the...

    , Armenia, formerly called Manes
  • Manvo
    Manvo
    Manvo is a town in the Lori Province of Armenia....

    , Armenia, formerly called Manes

Other uses

  • Manes (band)
    Manes (band)
    Manes was a band from Trondheim, Norway, formed in 1993. They started out as a two-piece band composed of Sargatanas and Cernunnus . They have been signed to Candlelight Records, Hammerheart Records and the Italian experimental label Code666...

    , a band from Trondheim, Norway
  • Manes (tribe)
    Manes (tribe)
    Manes is a Jat community of the Punjab region of northern India and Pakistan.- Origin :The Manes is mainly a Jat Muslim tribe. However,some are Sikhs or Hindus. They regard themselves as Rajputs, claiming descent from...

    , a Jatt tribe
  • Mánes Union of Fine Arts
    Mánes Union of Fine Arts
    The Manes Association of Fine Artists was an artists' association and exhibition society founded in 1887 in Prague and named after the painter Josef Mánes....

    , Czech arts organization named after Josef Mánes
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