Word: dionysus
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...sort of box under the stage. A similar plan has been followed in Sanders, where the curtain which has been made falls on the Roman principle. The scene painted upon it is a copy of the famous relief in the British Museum in which the god of the theatre, Dionysus, comes with his train to supper with a dramatic poet. The whole forms an admirable work...
...theory as to the matter, in which case Professor White proposes to re-establish it in an open meeting of the American School. Among the interesting discoveries made in the recent excavations there, is one by Dr. Dorpfeld, who thinks that he has discovered the much discussed sanctuary of Dionysus in the Marshes, southwest of the Acropolis, a place where it has never been looked for before...
...with almost as much as the religion of Israel has. While Israel has given Christianity the idea of an all powerful and omniscient god-head, the Greek religion has contributed divine love, grace and purity. Mercy is the predominating quality of all Greek gods and goddesses, of Apollo, Aesculpius, Dionysus, and Demeter. The religion is polytheistic, but its polytheism is more monotheistic than monotheism, for each state in Greece was independent, and each one having its pet divinity, each divinity was all-powerful in its homes. Everything was disorganized; there was a great lack of method. Questions as to prerogatives...
Professor White lectured in the Jefferson Physical Laboratory yesterday afternoon on the Greek theatre. He said that the site of the theatre of Dionysus at Athens remained unknown until a recent date, and the excavations which have given us most of our present knowledge of it were made by German archaeologists. The theatre is now known to have been just south of the Acropolis and the slope of this eminence made a natural amphitheatre...
...semi-circular passageway or "Diazoma." The upper rows of seats were hewn from the stone of the hillside, the lower were of limestone from the Peiraeus. The front row consisted of sixty-seven "thronoi," heavy stone seats with backs, the middle one being used by the chief priest of Dionysus. The orchestra was the open place for the acting. There was probably no raised stage, but actors and chorus stood on the same level. The stage buildings were at first merely rough structures in which the actors could change their dress, but they were much elaborated later, and a screen...