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...diments, to the observation of the true Phenomena. They are those two great and ancient fortresses, which have served, and do serve, as a refuge and... ...forth seek to enter into and unite themselves with her. “Where there is neither Greek nor Jew, circumcision, nor uncircumcision, Barbarian, Scythian... ...e children of faithful Abraham; amongst whom there is no distinction of Jew and Greek, of Barbarian and Scythian, of bond and free, for the same Lor... ...postle, are all the believers of every nation, without any difference of Jew or Greek, of free or bond. Therefore the said promises are directed to ... ..., in the least reflection, you will not fail to recollect, that this same thing anciently happened to the Jewish doctors, when they came to the expl... ...lection, that this, and a thousand other things more minute, were already, from ancient time, entered and announced to the whole house of Jacob ... ... consequence are the seed of that woman. And by this alone do you see the whole theatre or present aspect of our earth changed; you see here the tru... ...unt Nebo, situated in the land of Moab, shall be as it were a new and admirable theatre, where all those prodigies shall be renewed, which heretofor... ...he forty hours, there was erected with all wonted magnificence, a most spacious theatre, set off with artificial lights; of which the effect is to au...

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...In Sappho’s Journal, the author brings the famous Greek poet Sappho back to life in a finely crafted novel that reveals her sense of beauty, her loves, her reflections, her inner world. Based on a careful study of ancient Greece and Sappho’s surviving fragments of poetr...

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...SAPPHO’S JOURNAL: In Sappho’s Journal, the author brings the famous Greek poet Sappho back to life in a finely crafted novel that reveals her ... ... her loves, her reflections, her inner world. Based on a careful study of ancient Greece and Sappho’s surviving fragments of poetry, Bartlett recre... ... "A historical novel that recounts the life, thought, and times of the Greek poet Sappho of Lesbos, based on a study of ancient Greece and Sap... ...ght, and times of the Greek poet Sappho of Lesbos, based on a study of ancient Greece and Sappho's surviving fragments of poetry"--Provided by... ...le task of reconstructing the personality of Sappho and her background in ancient Lesbos. To my happy surprise he did so, in a work which is at once... ...he most distant to the most recent they are: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci; Shakes- peare; and Abraham Lincoln. F... ...ve on my bedroom walls seem less clever than they appeared years ago. Our theatre, too, has changed through the years, become more mediocre. Yester... ...ning his wife who was strolling behind us with her friends and servants. Theatre! P Villa Poseidon Atthis, Gyrinno, Anaktoria and I went swimming... ...wings and more wings, bearing me away. P Sometimes, we troop to our old theatre, lost in its bowl of cypress and over- grown with grass and weeds, ...

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... many creations, he often succeeds to polish little gems in poetry, prose and theatre. Frankly and simply in expression, he becomes, not only once,... ...Paradoxism At the beginning of 1980’s, a well-known playwright and man of theatre, the Frenchman Jacques Sarthou from Theatre de l’Ile de France... ...ary historian outlines the history of paradox on periods, in a few countries (ancient India, ancient China and Japan) and analyses the paradox in sci... ...marandache himself finds out - in his play Antique Tragedy - paradoxes in the Greek philosophy, without fear or other resentments. The debate among t... ...highest or the oddest fields of the existence” and he “would believe like the ancient Midas that anything could enter the area of the paradox” 4) . T... ...le dramatic jewel is Antique Tragedy, in what the three sacred monsters of the Greek theatre, Eschyl, Eurypide and Sofocle are brought in the same pe... ...atic jewel is Antique Tragedy, in what the three sacred monsters of the Greek theatre, Eschyl, Eurypide and Sofocle are brought in the same period an... ...deation and language. The author proves an excellent knowledge of the antique Greek theatre and reality and of the socratian heuristic method and, m... ...amare Ghita”etc. In other place an interjectional dialogue reminding of a pre-ancient times of the human language, is presented as an “onomatopoeic ...

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...om the Odyssey that the author used are from the renowned translation from Greek to Italian done by Rosa Calzecchi Onesti, Published by Einaudi. I h... ...ranslated these passages, instead of utilizing a renowned translation from Greek to English, because there seems to be no translation from Greek int... ... live on bread alone but on bread and…. Beauty”. A.M. PART ONE The Greek gods nourished themselves with nectar and ambrosia and I am firmly ... ...dered objects we can work with creatively. In Cosmo-Art, we face our most ancient traumas and most terrible conflicts so we can transform them into... ...of any other type. However, a language can also become poetry, song, and theatre, and then its content becomes artistic. It begins to possess a ne...

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...: I had better explain why, in this little piece d?occasion, written for a performance in aid of the funds of the project for establishing a National Theatre as a memorial to Shakespear, I have identified the Dark Lady with Mistress Mary Fitton. First, let me say that I do not contend that the Dark Lady was Mary Fitton, because when the case in Mary?s favor (or against her...

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...rformance in aid of the funds of the project for estab- lishing a National Theatre as a memorial to Shakespear, I have identified the Dark Lady with M... ...s three favorite pessimists. He tried his hand occasionally at deciphering ancient inscriptions, reading them as people seem to read the stars, by dis... ...ion.” He even describes Jonson’s description of his “little Latin and less Greek” as a sneer, whereas it oc- curs in an unmistakably sincere eulogy of... ... his actual social position as a penni- less tradesman’s son taking to the theatre for a livelihood, and his own conception of himself as a gentleman ... ...r their art. When Shakespear was forced to write popular plays to save his theatre from ruin, he did it mutinously, calling the plays “A s You Like It...

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...uggle of Athens and Persia, perhaps in some degree also of the wars of the Greeks and Carthaginians, in the same way that the Persian is prefig- ured ... ...roduced the Egyptian priests to give verisi- militude to his story. To the Greek such a tale, like that of the earth-born men, would have seemed perfe... ...owers first of all, giving to Athens the precedence; the various tribes of Greeks and barbarians who took part in the war will be dealt with as they s... ...e…. And the armed image of the goddess which was 5 Plato dedicated by the ancient Athenians is an evidence to other ages that men and women had in th... ...ere endowed with intelligence and the love of beauty. The Acropolis of the ancient Athens extended to the Ilissus and Eridanus, and included the Pnyx,... ...to and from the royal palace which they built in the centre is- land. This ancient palace was ornamented by successive generations; and they dug a can... ...o him. And now, friend Critias, I will announce to you the judgment of the theatre. They are of opinion that the last performer was wonderfully succes... ...ther by So- lon, I doubt not that I shall satisfy the requirements of this theatre. And now, making no more excuses, I will proceed. Let me begin by o...

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...conflicted with consonants of the desert as harsh as the jackal’s cry. The Greek might be recognised by his slender figure, the Egyptian by his elevat... ...ver seen a lobster, tore their faces with its red prickles. But the shaven Greeks, whiter than marble, threw the leavings of their plates behind them,... ...golden spatulas to one another across the tables. They gulped down all the Greek wines in their leathern bottles, the Campanian wine enclosed in ampho... ...ative land. She now, carried away by the memories of Carthage, sang of the ancient battles against Rome; they applauded. She kindled at the gleaming o... ...foli- age of the columns, or amid the branches of a palm tree. Some of the Ancients were posted on the platform of the towers, and people did not know... ... surprised, Hanno told them that, their accounts being very difficult, the Ancients had not had leisure to examine them. Meanwhile they had sent them ... ...e who had been born in towns recalled the resounding streets, the taverns, theatres, baths, and the barbers’ shops where there are tales to be heard. ...

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...nce upon subsequent thought. They lay down a prin- ciple which governs all Greek thought about human life, viz. that it is only intelligible when view... ...intelligible when viewed as directed towards some end or good. This is the Greek way of expressing that all human life involves an ideal element—somet... ...t is not yet and which under certain conditions it is to be. In that sense Greek Moral Philosophy is essentially idealistic. Further it is always assu... ...ption of the argument. The subject-matter of them was a favourite topic of ancient writers, and the treatment is smoother and more orderly than elsewh... ...our account is a good one, at least according to this opinion, which is of ancient date, and accepted by those who profess philosophy. Rightly too are... ...t we vary it with another: people, for instance, who eat sweetmeats in the theatre do so most when the performance is indifferent. Since then the prop...

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...nd in his writings. And more than any other Platonic work the Sympo sium is Greek both in style and subject, having a beauty ‘as of a statue,’ while ... ... his Dialogues, Plato is emancipated from former philosophies. The genius of Greek art seems to triumph over the traditions of Pythagorean, Eleatic, o... ...of language and of my thology was that of gender; and at a later period the ancient physicist, anticipating modern sci ence, saw , or thought that h... ...ches lightly upon a difficulty which has troubled the moderns as well as the ancients in music, and may be extended to the other applied sciences. Tha... ...remarks that personal attachments are inimical to despots. The experience of Greek history con firms the truth of his remark. When Aristophanes decla... ...ny after discord; to his common sense, as to that of many moderns as well as ancients, the identity of contradictories is an absurdity . His notion of... ...be exhibited, and you came upon the stage with the actors and faced the vast theatre 60 Plato s Symposium altogether undismayed, if I thought that yo... ...riends. Do you think, Socrates, said Agathon, that my head is so full of the theatre as not to know how much more formidable to a man of sense a few g... ...that of the many. But then we, having been a part of the foolish many in the theatre, cannot be regarded as the select wise; though I know that if you...

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...mself into it with enthusiasm, and Latin antiquity was not enough for him. Greek, a study discountenanced by the Church, which looked on it as dangero... ...riendship of Pierre Amy and of the celebrated Guillaume Bude. In fact, the Greek letters of the latter are the best source of information concerning t... ...cy furnished by literature as well as by the popular taste. Was it not the Ancients that began it? Aristophanes, Catullus, Petronius, Martial, flew in... ... Aretino must not be forgotten, nor the licence of the whole Italian comic theatre of the sixteenth century. The Calandra of Bibbiena, who was afterwa... ... from his ancestor Esormon, Prince of Achaia, 2139 B.C., who was surnamed (Greek), that is to say the Fortunate and the Well-beloved. A Gascon could n... ...ent that Rabelais only collected popular tra- ditions and gave new life to ancient legends is said to be proved by the large number of megalithic monu... ...larity of his novel. No one has ever yet produced a written passage or any ancient testimony to prove the existence of the name before Rabelais. To pl... ...the barriers or lists for tournaments, the hippodrome or riding-court, the theatre or public playhouse, and natatory or place to swim in, with most ad... ... was acted at Saint Maxents, I had no sooner entered within the pit of the theatre, but that forthwith, by the virtue and oc- cult property of it, on ...

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...eat of the British Empire, and the chamber of the English kings. This most ancient city is the the county of Middlesex, the fruitfullest and wholesome... ...e nation, or parliament, is held. The government of the city is lodged, by ancient grant of the Kings of Britain, in twenty-four aldermen—that is, sen... ...y of Sir Christopher Hatton, son of William, grandson of John, of the most ancient family of the Hattons; one of the fifty gentlemen pensioners to Her... ...tters: Thomas Linacre, physician to King Henry VIII., a man learned in the Greek and Latin languages, and particularly skilful in physick, by which he... ...ord Russell, son of the Earl of Bedford, whose lady composed the following Greek and Latin verses, and had them engraved on the marble:- How was I sta... ...wing things worthy of observation:- I. The Royal Library, well stored with Greek, Latin, Italian and French books; amongst the rest, a little one in F... ...a week, corn, wool, cloth, fruits, and the like. Without the city are some theatres, where English actors represent almost every day tragedies and com... ...he excessive applause of those that are present. Not far from one of these theatres, which are all built of wood, lies the royal barge, close to the r... ...red from the weather. There is still another place, built in the form of a theatre, which serves for the baiting of bulls and bears; they are fas- 22...

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...without many words. We find, then, in Goethe, an Art- ist, in the high and ancient meaning of that term; in the mean- ing which it may have borne long... ... the high vocation of the poet; on this ground of universal hu- manity, of ancient and now almost forgotten nobleness, to take his stand, even in thes... ...ss, we can here say nothing. But in every department of Literature, of Art ancient and modern, in many provinces of Science, we shall often meet him; ... ...le which, in the hands of a master, compels a language which is as rich as Greek to be also as musical. The spring of 1773, which witnessed the public... ...n my gable-room; while the persons managing and performing, as well as the theatre itself as far as the proscenium, found a place in the room adjoinin... ...hes. I made gestures, and leaped, as I had seen the dancers do at the fair-theatre. In the midst of this I looked in the glass, and saw by chance the ... ...ttiest sight in the world; and I was on the point of sending all the other Greeks after him, when suddenly hissing waters spurted at me on all sides, ... ...exclusively for the citizens of Frankfort, a botanic garden, an anatomical theatre, a chemical laboratory, a considerable library, and a house for the... ...lly into a small academy, in which every thing necessary, and at last even Greek and Latin, were taught. The extensive connections of Frankfort caused...

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...omething in me to be credible or intelligible. We, as we read, must become Greeks, Romans, Turks, priest and king, martyr and executioner; must fasten... ...e same character! Observe the sources of our information in respect to the Greek genius. We have the civil history of that people, as Herodotus, Thucy... ... sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon and the remains of the earliest Greek art. And there are compositions of the same strain to be found in the... ... honor and such lax discipline as great boys have? The costly charm of the ancient tragedy, and indeed of all the old literature, is that the persons ... ...s’s eye. Honor is venerable to us because it is no ephemera. It is always ancient virtue. We worship it to-day because it is not of to-day. We love i... ...al; that in nature nothing can be given, all things are sold. This is that ancient doctrine of Nemesis, who keeps watch in the universe and lets no of... ...oman his mien and manners, if his heart and aims are in the senate, in the theatre and in the billiard-room, and she has no aims, no conversation that... ... is a certain appearance of paltriness, as of toys and the trum- pery of a theatre, in sculpture. Nature transcends all our moods of thought, and its ... ...tion and beauty in modern society are all but dried up. A popular novel, a theatre, or a ball-room makes us feel that we are all pau- pers in the alms...

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...f an Indian warrior, making haste from the high places of the earth to its ancient reservoir. The murmurs of many a famous river on the other side of ... ...Above the petty Province here, And Britain far away; Some hero of the ancient mould, Some arm of knightly worth, Of strength unbought, and f... ...imackRivers the dog. This natural bugle long resounded in the woods of the ancient world before the horn was invented. The very dogs that sullenly bay... ...y to day without the aid of posterity. In how few words, for instance, the Greeks would have told the story of Abelard and Heloise, making but a sente... ... exert so intimate and genial an influence on nature, as many a god of the Greeks. I should fear the infinite power and inflexible justice of the almi... ...truly strange, and heretical, and un popular. To Christians, no less than Greeks and Jews, it is foolishness and a stumbling block. There are, indeed... ...ed, And mighty woods, which did the valley shade, And like a stately theatre it made, Spreading itself into a spacious plain; And in the m... ...ce a constrained and partial and merely well bred man,—a magnifying of the theatre till life itself is turned into a stage, for which it is our duty t... ... city boy, whose toys are pictures and works of art, whose wonders are the theatre and kingly processions and crownings. As the youth studied minutely...

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...Greece no more.’ Plato has seized by anticipation the spirit which hung over Greek literature for a thousand years afterwards. Y et doubtless there we... ...he truth. To understand him, we must make abstraction of morality and of the Greek man ner of regarding the relation of the sexes. In this, as in his... ...f of him when we regard his Dialogues merely as literary com positions. Any ancient work which is worth read ing has a practical and speculative as ... ...ulative as well as a literary interest. And in Plato, more than in any other Greek writer, the local and transitory is inextricably blended with what ... .... Few persons will be inclined to suppose, in the superficial manner of some ancient critics, that a dialogue which treats of love must necessarily ha... ...aedrus). It is the in terval which separates Sophists and rhetoricians from ancient famous men and women such as Homer and Hesiod, Anacreon and Sapph... ...ue. SOCRATES: And if the law is finally approved, then the author leaves the theatre in high delight; but if the law is rejected and he is done out of...

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... ing to get into business and trying to get out of debt, Walden 6 a very ancient slough, called by the Latins aes alienum, another’s brass, for some... ...r too late to give up our prejudices. No way of thinking or doing, however ancient, can be trusted without proof. What everybody echoes or in silence ... ...ave ever Walden 13 lived a more simple and meagre life than the poor. The ancient philosophers, Chinese, Hindoo, Persian, and Greek, were a class tha... ...ife than the poor. The ancient philosophers, Chinese, Hindoo, Persian, and Greek, were a class than which none has been poorer in outward riches, none... ... with Nature herself. I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks. I got up early and bathed in the pond; that was a religious exercis... ...it was then that I lived. The student may read Homer or Aeschylus in the Greek without danger of dissipation or luxuriousness, for it implies that h... ... those who were obliged to look abroad for amuse ment, to society and the theatre, that my life itself was become my amusement and never ceased to be...

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... late, smoking long porcelain pipes, not coming in at night till after the theatre, and haunting cafes. The father-in-law died, leaving little; he was... ...aubert ried man, lying in his bed as but now, and crossing the opera- tion theatre as of old. The warm smell of poultices mingled in his brain with th... ... to mend the linen. Patronized by the clergy, be- cause she belonged to an ancient family of noblemen ruined by the Revolution, she dined in the refec... ...ining beneath arbours in the arms of Bayaderes; Djiaours, T urkish sabres, Greek caps; and you especially , pale 35 Flaubert landscapes of dithyrambi... ...d never had the curiosity , he said, while he lived at Rouen, to go to the theatre to see the actors from Paris. He could neither swim, nor fence, nor... ...wn hall, constructed “from the designs of a Paris architect,” is a sort of Greek temple that forms the corner next to the chemist’s shop. On the groun... ... in a wood, in a field, or even contemplat- ing the eternal vault like the ancients. My God! Mine is the God of Socrates, of Franklin, of Voltaire, an...

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...chool made only the thinnest pre- tence of teaching anything but Latin and Greek. When I went there as a very small boy I knew a good deal of Latin gr... ...t seen a Latin inscription on a tomb that I could translate throughout. Of Greek I can decipher perhaps the greater part of the Greek alphabet. In sho... ...of the school at any moment as their parents are to get up and go out of a theatre where my plays are being performed. Even among my own schoolmasters... ... Cae- sar meant only being set at Virgil, with the culminating hor- ror of Greek and Homer in reserve at the end of that. I pre- ferred Caesar, becaus... ... Mount, and Machiavelli’s Prince, and La Rochefoucauld’s maxims, and Hymns Ancient and Modern, and De Glanville’s apologue, and Dr. Watts’s rhymes, an... ...people miserable by the heathen horrors of mourning, staying away from the theatre because we can- not afford the stalls and are ashamed to go to the ... ...cuted, and can thereby be led to the discovery that Jackson in F and Hymns Ancient and Modern are not perhaps the last word of beauty and propri- ety ... ...- isfying it. Story books are forbidden, picture post cards are forbidden, theatres are forbidden, operas are forbidden, cir- cuses are forbidden, swe... ...put into practice by any State before or since. But the Bible contains the ancient literature of a very re- markable Oriental race; and the imposition...

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...questioned) T olstoy would have thought and taught and quarrelled with the Greek Church all the same. Their creed has been fragmentarily practised to ... ...estion as to how far the gospels are original, and how far they consist of Greek and Chinese interpolations. The record that Jesus said certain things... ...her more than less civilized. The Latin Christian has nothing to offer the Greek Christian that Greek Christianity has not already pro- vided. They ar... ...e for treating history and biography as mere records of the fulfillment of ancient Jewish prophecies. This craze no doubt led him to seek for some leg... ...spear as a college subject may hate Shakespear; and people who dislike the theatre may include Moliere in that dislike without ever having read a line... ...n which Chinese sages, Greek philosophers, Latin authors, and writ- ers of ancient anonymous inscriptions are thrown at our heads 90 Shaw as the sour...

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...ly fair, from lower Egypt; some, much darker, from upper Egypt; with a few Greeks and Jews. Promi- 24 Shaw nent in a group on Ptolemy’s right hand is... ...They shrink back, appalled and disconcerted.) Was he not my son-in-law, my ancient friend, for 20 years the master of great Rome, for 30 years the com... ...; and—what is that building next door? 41 Caesar and Cleopatra RUFIO. The theatre. CAESAR. We will have that too: it commands the strand, for the res... ..., man, what are you dreaming of? Since I came through the lines beyond the theatre there, I have brought my caravan past three sentinels, all so busy ... ... to choose his wine? Sicilian, Lesbian, Chian— RUFIO (contemptuously). All Greek. APOLLODORUS. Who would drink Roman wine when he could get Greek? T r... ...s now almost gone.) Here is the palace (pointing to his plan): here is the theatre. You (to Rufio) take twenty men and pretend to go by THAT street (p... ...e ingredients, my fellow-dramatist, Gilbert Murray, who, as a Professor of Greek, has applied to classical antiquity the methods of high scholarship (... ...sert of savagery. Savagery, they think, became barbarism; barbarism became ancient civilization; ancient civilization became Pauline Christian- ity; P... ...mitate humanity as I know it. Nobody knows whether Shakespear thought that ancient Athenian joiners, weavers, or bellows menders were any different fr...