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Shadows create the sense of gloom for the entire film, damping even a victory celebration. Darkness pervades the alleys where gleeful soldiers cavort with Cyprian women. The transition of Othello's mind from conscientious administrator to maddened husband is reflected in the darkening of the weather as the Moor's thoughts plummet...

Author: By Charles S. Wittman, | Title: Othello | 12/10/1963 | See Source »

Satan Back to Heaven? In his treatise De Mortalitate, written probably in A.D. 252 to comfort Christians during the ravages of a plague, Cyprian summed up the solaces with which men have long made do in the face of death: the fact that all the great and brave have suffered the same fate, the thought of death as a rest from labor and a surcease from sorrow, the idea that the good die young. But his main argument was that death for a Christian means "to be changed and reformed to the image of Christ and to the dignity...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Shape of Death | 1/20/1961 | See Source »

...previously thought. The early, proto-geometric style of pottery design was so abundant in the Lydian potter's shop that chronology of native Lydian pottery may have to be begun at an earlier date. Further, the Lydian potters seem to have been more strongly influenced by Southwest Asian and Cyprian artisans than was previously thought...

Author: By Ian Strasfogel, | Title: Harvard Professor Directs Excavations To Unearth Important Relics at Sardis | 11/7/1959 | See Source »

...other way around. For 30 centuries before the birth of Christ, much of the copper known to the Mediterranean world came from Cyprus, where clumps of almost pure metal once lay loose on the ground. Agamemnon was said to have sailed for Troy carrying a brand-new sword of Cyprian copper. The weapon Alexander the Great brandished against his enemies was the gift of a Cypriot king...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CYPRUS: Copper Island | 3/12/1956 | See Source »

Roman know-how, spreading to Cyprus in 58 B.C., managed to squeeze a rich payload out of Cyprian ore bodies for at least four centuries more, leaving behind slag heaps of exhausted ore that are still standing today. Then, for close to 1,500 years, the world forgot the copper that made Cyprus famous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CYPRUS: Copper Island | 3/12/1956 | See Source »

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