Word: dionysius
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...variety. "Earth Moods? by Hervey Allen surveys the world from its creation in a large and hearty manner and then continues in pleasant detail to recite further history including the Norse discovery of America. Maurice Baring's poems have been issued in a collected edition. E. A. Robinson's "Dionysius in Doubt" and Robert Hillyer's "Halt in the Garden" are well known and have been so well reviewed in the CRIMSON that I need add no comment. "The Pot of Earth" by Archibald...
...lectures on "Greek Religious Thought from Homer to the Triumph of Christianity," by Professor Clifford H. Moore, will be given at the Lowell Institute, 491 Boylston street, Boston, this evening at 8 o'clock. The specific subject of this lecture will be "The Mystery Religions of the Sixth Century: Dionysius and Demeter...
...inferences which it seemed could be drawn from from ruins of Greek theatres. In 1890 Dr. Wilhelm Dorpfeld, the noted authority on Greek antiquities and first secretary of the German Archaeological Institute at Athens, published his conclusions, the results of a careful architectural study of the theatre of Dionysius at Athens, which were to the effect that the proscenium which had generally been considered the front wall of the stage was really the support of the scenery and furnished a background for both actors and chorus who played in the orchestra. The announcement of such results attained by a trained...
...traces of votin slabs and statues to the number of fifteen. The most important of these is a life-size statue of a male, supposed to be the statue of the Sanctuary, at which so many offerings were made. Another theory is that it is the statue of the Dionysius, which stood in the Temple of Icaria. The prevalence of slabs containing the inscription "Dionysius" would tend to show that the latter theory is correct...
...American School at Athens has been engaged in making some highly important excavations in Attica and the surrounding country with great success. Mr. Earle, of Columbia, '86, appointed by the director of the schools to superintend the excavations at Sikyon, has lately discovered a broken Sikyonian statue, representing Dionysius; also several coins of great historic value. Moreover, he discovered an inscription dating back to about...