Word: delphi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the dirt four feet below street level. Archaeologists came on the run, uncovered a bronze Apollo, almost perfectly preserved, and worthy of the legendary sculptor Antenor, who lived in the 6th century B.C. The sculpture has much the same severity and grace that mark the bronze Charioteer at Delphi. It is a relic of the greatest moment in Greek art, when the archaic mold, adapted mainly from Egypt, began turning into the tender naturalism of the classical...
...central character, played by John Colicos, is King Leontes, who unjustly believes himself cuckolded and proceeds to wreak his jealousy on everyone around, even defying the oracle of Delphi. Of Shakespeare's three great studies of jealousy--Leontes, Othello, and Ford--this is the most realistic. Leontes is a neurotic with high blood pressure and fits of paranoia. Whereas Othello's jealousy builds up in a steady crescendo, Leontes' bursts out in white heat at the outset and, feeding on itself, stays at the same level...
...Delphi Museum there is a bronze statue of a charioteer made about 470 B.C. Jockeys don't seem to have changed much over the centuries-compare Chapin's Hartack with his ancient counterpart...
...Delphi he finds a creature like himself-a being cursed by the old gods as he has been cursed by the new. She is an aged Pythian priestess who lives on a mountainside with only goats and her idiot son for company. The Wanderer asks the priestess for guidance, and her narrative is the main part of the book. Like most allegories, the story suffers from the sometimes near-ludicrous clash of the concrete and the symbolic. It is a measure of Novelist Lagerkvist's great narrative powers that he manages to keep his story alive in the strange...
Footprints in the Snow. The old woman's story runs thus: she was once a simple, pious country girl who was groomed for the role of prophetess at Delphi's prosperous temple. There she was clothed in a bridal robe, learned to get along with the temple snakes, eat the sacred laurel and become the ecstatic "bride" of the god who emanated from the cleft of a rock in the depth of the earth. As a Pythia she was alone, a social outcast, feared and avoided by the plain people of Delphi. She was totally filled with...