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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Equus, genus Equusnoun

    type genus of the Equidae: only surviving genus of the family Equidae

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  1. equus

    Equus is a genus of mammals under the family Equidae, which includes modern horses, donkeys, and zebras. The term "equus" is Latin for 'horse'. It is the only recognized existing genus in the family and includes both domestic and wild species. The genus was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1758.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Equusnoun

    a genus of mammals, including the horse, ass, etc

  2. Etymology: [L., horse.]

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  1. Equus

    Equus is a play by Peter Shaffer written in 1973, telling the story of a psychiatrist who attempts to treat a young man who has a pathological religious fascination with horses. Shaffer was inspired to write Equus when he heard of a crime involving a 17-year-old who blinded six horses in a small town near Suffolk. He set out to construct a fictional account of what might have caused the incident, without knowing any of the details of the crime. The play's action is something of a detective story, involving the attempts of the child psychiatrist, Dr. Martin Dysart, to understand the cause of the boy's actions while wrestling with his own sense of purpose. The stage show ran in London between 1973 and 1975: later came the Broadway productions that starred Anthony Hopkins as Dysart, and from the London production, Peter Firth as Alan. The Broadway production ran for 1,209 performances. However, numerous other issues inform the narrative. Most important are religious and ritual sacrifice themes, and the manner in which character Alan Strang constructs a personal theology involving the horses and the supreme godhead, "Equus". Alan sees the horses as representative of God and confuses his adoration of his "God" with sexual attraction. Also important is Shaffer's examination of the conflict between personal values and satisfaction and societal mores, expectations and institutions. In reference to the play's classical structure, themes and characterization, Shaffer has discussed the conflict between Apollonian and Dionysian values and systems in human life.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Equus in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Equus in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

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    [He had] no issue doing the scene whatsoever, his only question was, ‘Just so I know, how naked do you want me to be — movie-naked or Equus-naked?’ I said, ‘I hate when people block sex scenes in order to play hide-the-genitalia — that feels so forced. So let’s just block it, and if it falls into frame, we’ll shoot it’.

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