Word: dionysus
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...delivery of a lecture each year on "The Immortality of Man," and for its publication after delivery. Thus far five lectures have been given: "Immortality and the New Theodicy," by Rev. George A. Gordon '81; "Human Immortality: Two Supposed Objections to the Doctrine," by Professor William James M.'69; "Dionysus and Immortality," by President Benjamin I. Wheeler, of the University of California; "The Conception of Immortality." by Professor Josiah Royce; and in 1900, "Life Everlasting," by Dr. John Fiske...
...performance of the adventures of the god by a chorus of satyrs, who danced and sang rude songs. Soon the subject broadened into other fields and the dramatic element increased at the expense of the choral element. But the conservation of the stage and perhaps of the priests of Dionysus preserved in the satyr play an interesting memorial of earlier days. Each tragic poet presented at the feast of the patron-god four plays; the last of these was the satyr play, which was really neither tragedy nor comedy, but a tragedy of the old type with all the rudeness...