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Irene

In Greek mythology, the goddess of peace (Roman Pax). According to Hesiod she was one of the Horae, goddesses of the seasons, and the daughter of Zeus and Themis, the personification of order.

A statue of Irene, on the Acropolis at Athens, depicted her with the infant Ploutus, god of wealth.



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He never joined the resistance and it was in Athens that he first met Makarios who was then deacon of the Irini church.
This was the result of appointing Ummina Irini as the superior of Dair Abu Seifain in Old Cairo.
For example, Prus and Irini (1980), in their ethnographic examination of the transient hotel community, distinguished the identities of hookers, tricks, strippers, bartenders, cocktail waitresses, bouncers, desk clerks, bar patrons, and hustlers.
 
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