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What does Athos mean?

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Proper noun
  1. (Greek) one of the Gigantes
  2. A peninsula in Greece containing Mount Athos
Name
  1. A male given name of Greek origin.
    1. (meaning, history) An alternative name for Zeus, the ruler of the heavens.
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Athos felt that he was called upon to give an explanation of what was passing.
They feared that the Greeks might use the name dispute as an excuse for expelling all the Russians from Athos.
In the Hesychast controversy he took the side of the monks of Athos, but refused to agree to the theory of the uncreated light.
However, my dear Athos, you have only to speak, to tell me what you want.
Caught in a passing glance, Mount Athos rises in the distance and Ithaca is depicted as an alien landscape of jagged rocks before an endless horizon.
The Hesychasts were, in the Eastern Church, supporters of the ascetic mysticism propagated by the monks of Mount Athos in the XIVth Century.

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