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Alazṓn (Ancient Gr****: ἀλαζών) is one of
three stock characters in
comedy of the
theatre of
ancient Greece. He is the
opponent of the eirôn. The alazṓn...
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Alazon is an
extinct town in Elko County, in the U.S.
state of Nevada.
Alazon was a non-agency
station at the east end of the
combined Southern Pacific...
- Two
ships of the
United States Navy have been
named Alazon Bay for
Alazon Bay in Texas. USS
Alazon Bay (ACV-55), was a Casablanca-class
escort carrier...
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Leiolopisma alazon, also
known as the
Lauan ground skink or Ono-i-Lau
ground skink, is a
species of
skink found on Lau
Islands of Fiji. The
species is...
- The eirōn
usually succeeded by
bringing down his
braggart opponent (the
alazṓn "boaster") by
understating his own abilities. The
eiron lends his name to...
- USS
Lunga Point (CVE-94),
originally named Alazon Bay, was a Casablanca-class
escort carrier of the
United States Navy. It was
named for
Lunga Point on...
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transferred under lend-lease in Casablanca's place. Therefore, she was
renamed Alazon Bay, a
misspelling of
Alazan Bay,
located in
Kleberg County, Texas, as part...
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Acremodontina alazon is a
species of sea snails, a
marine gastropod mollusc in the
family Trochaclididae, the
false top snails. The
height of the s****...
- long-suffering farmer's wife.'"
Stock characters can be
further identified as an
alazon, the "impostor and self-deceiving braggart" in a story, or an eiron, a "self-derogatory...
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buffoon (bômolochus), the
ironist (eirōn), and the
imposter or
boaster (
alazṓn). All
three are
central to Aristophanes' Old Comedy. By the time the Roman...
