Eunuch (6554 bytes)
1: ...was established before [[700 BC]] and accounts of eunuchs are known throughout history.
3: ...eper." This indicates the traditional role of the eunuch—as a reliable keeper of a ruler's [[harem]]...
7: ...nt ceased. The justification of the employment of eunuchs as high-ranking [[civil servant]]s was that, sin...
9: Eunuchs were also known in [[India]] and throughout the ...
15: ...storically, however, they have been refered to as eunuchs, particularly in the West.

Sun Yao-ting (109 bytes)
1: ...ng''' ([[1902]]-[[1996]]) was the last imperial [[eunuch]] of [[Chinese history]].

Li Lianying (156 bytes)
1: ... Lianying''' in [[Chinese]] history was a royal [[eunuch]] during the Qing Dynasty, and was a favorite of ...

Wei Zhongxian (980 bytes)
1: ... of Sun-ning in Anhui province,who made himself a eunuch, and changed his name to Li Chin-chung. Entering ...

Urvasi (1080 bytes)
9: ... bereft of prestige, reputed to be unmanly like a eunuch.” [Mahabharata, Critical Edition, Volume 4, page ...
11: ... to live in disguise, Arjuna chooses to live as a eunuch in the inner apartments of the Queen of King Vira...

Gelding (257 bytes)
3: ''See also:'' [[Eunuch]], [[Ridgeling]]

Abagtha (323 bytes)
1: ...en has also been translated ''chamberlain'' and ''eunuch''. See Esther 1:10.

Dou Xian (316 bytes)
1: ...which engaged in the struggle for power against [[eunuch]]s in the Chinese Eastern [[Han Dynasty]].

207 BC (1507 bytes)
8: ...Dynasty]] of China is assassinated by his chief [[eunuch]] [[Zhao Gao]]. He is replaced by his nephew [[Zi...
21: *[[Zhao Gao]], Chief [[eunuch]] in the service of the Emperors of the [[Qin Dyn...

Ebed-Melech (380 bytes)
1: ...s ''Servant of the King'', was an [[Ethiopia]]n [[eunuch]] who served [[Zedekiah]], the king of [[Judah]]....

Galli (2294 bytes)
4: ...n Asia Minor that ancient authors described as "[[eunuch]]s", such as the priests of [[Atargatis]] describ...
10: ...en borrowed from Asia or Greece, where it meant ''eunuch''.

Tremulant EP (365 bytes)
10: 3. Eunuch Provocateur

Philip the Evangelist (669 bytes)
3: ... met and [[baptism|baptised]] an [[Ethiopian]] [[eunuch]] in [[Gaza]], traditionally marking the start of...

He Jin (4404 bytes)
3: ...the death of Emperor Ling, and struggled with the eunuch faction for power at the imperial court. He Jin's...
11: ...d of Jian Shi (蹇碩), conspicuously a eunuch official.
13: ...Jian Shi plotted to assassinate He and placed the eunuch candidate Liu Xie on the throne. Uncovering the c...
15: ...elayed to Zhang Rang and the increasingly anxious eunuch officials. They quickly organised for He Jin to b...
17: ...l, stormed the imperial palaces and massacred the eunuchs.

Zhao Gao (2339 bytes)
1: ...sty. Note that although he is referred to as a [[eunuch]], he was not [[castrated]] - he was born with a ...

Attis (3604 bytes)
1: ...was both the son and the lover of [[Cybele]], her eunuch attendant and driver of her lion-driven chariot; ...
7: ...dietary law]]s of the Lydian Gauls. In Rome, the eunuch followers of Cybele were known as <em>[[Galli]]</...
9: ...eventually to Rome, the cult of Attis, her reborn eunuch consort, accompanied her. A marble [[bas-relief]]...

Patriarch Fravitta of Constantinople (3663 bytes)
3: ...as given into the [[custody]] of a confidential [[eunuch]], the imperial chamberlain, and the imperial sea...
5: ...ations. Within 4 months he died, and the powerful eunuch was pressing his executors for the promised gold....

Li Shangyin (933 bytes)
6: ...ation with Liu Ben, a prominent opponent of the [[eunuch]]s.

Bagoas (2622 bytes)
1: ...s like Bagadata, "given by God," often used for [[eunuch]]s.
3: A eunuch, Bagoas, was a favourite of Alexander the Great (...

As-Salih Ismail al-Malik (876 bytes)
1: ...74]]. As-Salih came under the protection of the [[eunuch]] Gumushtugin and was taken to [[Aleppo]], while ...

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