How to pronounce“aegis”in English
the the other main challenge is the Russian ballistic and cruise missile threat. NATO's air defense umbrella is known as
Aegis ashore. Given the numbers that have been fired at Ukraine in recent months, do you still think that system is fit for
purpose to defend Europe? >> So, it depends what we fight. Um, in
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A mythological shield associated with the Greek deities Zeus and Athena (and their Roman counterparts Jupiter and Minerva) shown as a short cloak made of goatskin worn on the shoulders, more as an emblem of power and protection than a military shield. The aegis of Athena or Minerva is usually shown with a border of snakes and with the head of Medusa in the center.
“The goat Amalthea, which had suckled Jove, being dead, that god is said to have covered his buckler with the skin thereof, whence the appellation Aegis, from αιξ, αιγις, a she-goat. Jupiter afterwards restoring the goat to life, covered it with a new skin, and placed it among the stars. This buckler, which was the work of Vulcan, he gave to Minerva, who having killed the Gorgon Medusa, nailed her head to the middle of the Aegis, which henceforth possessed the faculty of converting to stone all who beheld it, as Medusa herself had while alive.”
Guidance, protection; endorsement, sponsorship.
“under the aegis”
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