Word: delphic
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Lawton has gone to the western cities to ask subscriptions to the fund for the excavation of Delphic...
...Lawton is well known to Cambridge people. He is a graduate of Harvard, and is at present actively engaged as agent of the Institute and secretary of the Delphic committee, in furthering the good work that is going...
DEAR SIRS.- We trust that you may kindly grant us space to call attention to the project of the Archeacological Institute, to buy and excavate the site of the Delphic oracle and temple. There is no other work of the kind remaining to be done in Greek lands, at all comparable with this in importance and interest. Like the Attis at Olympia and the Acropolis of Athens, the Delphic temenos was an art museum of a national character. How many of the three thousand statues to be seen there in Pliny's time still lie buried beneath the cottages...
...Delphic Literary Society, Swarthmore, gave an operetta in two acts called "The Bohn of Contention," recently...
...evolutions of the chorus, and still further towards the audience sat the band. The tragedy was shortened, being divided into a prologue and three acts, for each of which there was a separate scene. On the stage were represented in turn a terrace looking towards the abode of the Delphic Oracle, the shrine of a Doric temple with the Furies lying about asleep, the temple of Pallas built in the Ionic style, and the summit of the Areopagus. The scenery is said to have been on the whole, very effective...