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...Greek but is resolutely planning a cram course for this summer, will spend next school year learning his job under Davis. The school that he will take over in September 1960 now has 1,050 students, a healthy endowment of $1.6 million (contributed mostly by Greek-Americans, partly by Athenian Greeks), and a spectacular, 35-acre mountain campus. Teaching, done mostly in Greek, follows roughly the curriculum prescribed by the nation's Ministry of Education, including instruction in the Greek Orthodox religion. But the school is not an austere learning factory, as most Greek academies are. President Davis...
Diana's worship at Vraona had a special feature: little girls dressed as bears. According to an ancient legend, a couple of Athenian juvenile delinquents killed Diana's holy bear, and she sent a pestilence to punish their city. To square themselves with Diana, the citizens agreed to send five-to ten-year-old girls of noble families to Vraona to substitute for the murdered bear. No one seems to know whether these noble nymphets took part in the orgies mentioned by Aristophanes. Dr. Papadimitriou doubts it. They appear to have been housed, and perhaps chaperoned...
...Classical proportion. In this way, Berenson looks dubiously upon both primitive art and on the creations of the modern idiom, the more naive frescoes of the twelfth century as the sophisticated manner of the modern French. Yet, what Berenson loves he loves well and completely. To the sphere of Athenian refinement, of what he calls "tactile values," he has given much...
...woman herself. Thirteen centuries before Christ, when ancient Egypt's Queen Nefertete was the ideal of beauty, Egyptians placed cones of scented unguents on their heads to melt and thus perfume their faces. The Greeks used makeup and perfume, prized a fine appearance so highly that Athenian magistrates fined sloppy women. In Imperial Rome, women blackened their eyelids, whitened their skins with chalk or white lead, used animal fat and eggs of ants to treat their skin. Ovid scolded his mistress: "Did I not tell you to leave off dyeing your hair? Now you have no hair left...
...story of how 10.000 Greeks fled the trap is told in a third-person narrative by the man who led them out of the trap: Xenophon, a 30-year-old Athenian, who was a friend of Socrates and the world's first war correspondent; he accompanied the expedition as a curious observer, not a soldier. This modern translation by the late Professor William H. D. Rouse (the Iliad and the Odyssey) marks another important addition to the ancient classics that are being turned into briskly readable, contemporary English by such able writers as Robert Graves (The Golden...