Word: colonus
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...about two months by the reading and interpretation of inscriptions contained in Hicks's Manual of Greek Historical Inscriptions. Evening readings were held once each week during three months, at which members of the school read and expounded a set portion of the Acharnians and of the Oedipus at Colonus. From the beginning of the year until March the school held a weekly session, at which reports were made. These reports included items of archaeological news, reviews of new books, the discussion of topics suggested by reading, and the presentation of brief papers on set themes. A great variety...
Mendelssohn's music to Sophocles "$CEdipus at Colonus" will be given at the Philadelphia Academy of Music, May 2d, with a male chorus of nearly two hundred voices, and the full German orchestra. George Riddle, of Cambridge, Mass. who has made so marked a success in representations of this description, says Progress, will assist...