Word: aegina
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Then, in a startling about-face, the regime announced that it had decided to spare the 30-year-old deserter. Instead of death, he faced a long term in a prison on the island of Aegina. What had happened...
...Scott, daughter of an American Negro and a Russian mother) were unknown to the West. They were drawn from the corps de ballet on the theory that they would be less hidebound by classical technique than the older dancers (an exception: famed Soloist Maya Plisetskaya, dancing the courtesan Aegina). Lavishly supported by the government, the Bolshoi currently has some 250 regular dancers and mimes, including what is probably the most brilliant collection of soloists in the world...
...ancient Greek doctor named Paul of Aegina treated patients for arthritis by stewing them in wolf broth. He made the broth by boiling whole wolves in oil. Today the standard treatment for arthritis still includes heat. Instead of hot wolf oil, doctors use electric pads and artificial fever machines. About the cause & cure of most arthritis they know little more than did Paul of Aegina...
...Alpha Delta Phi Society has recently presented to the Classical Museum a chariot, which was used at the Greek Play last June. Professor A. A. Howard '82 gave an ancient Greek strigil from Aegina and a bit of mosaic from the vase of Chalydon. A collection of native terra cottas from the neighborhood of Rome was received from Dr. A. S. Pease, and several specimens of Roman building stone were given by the Mineralogical museum. Mr. George S. Pfeiffer donated a number of photographic negatives...
Plato, the son of Ariston, said Professor Goodwin, was born in Aegina about 427 B. C. He became a pupil of Socrates and, after the death of his instructor, opened an academy in an olive grove north of Athens, near which he owned a house and garden. Among his pupils were Demosthenes, Lycurgus and Aristotle...
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