Word: decaying
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Professor Charles Zueblin, of the University of Chicago, addressed a large audience in the New Lecture Hall yesterday afternoon, in the third lecture of his series on "A Democratic Religion," taking for his main theme "The Decay of Authority...
...sixth century, said Mr. Murray, the pressure of the Persian army on the Ionic coast, caused the literary, as well as the military, supremacy to pass from Ionia to Attica, and as a result, the authentic recitation of the Iliad was also transferred. About this time the decay of the epic and the birth of tragedy marked the beginning of a new epoch...