Word: dorians
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...discussion of old comedy necessarily begins with its origin. According to Aristotle, comedy had its origin in the processions in honor of Dionysos. Slow in its growth, comedy attained a perfect form much later than did tragedy. Comedy thrived especially in the Dorian race. Megara in Greece and in Sicily became celebrated as the homes of comedy. Susarion, a Megarian, wandering to Attica with a band of players, established himself at Icaria and thus gave the first impulse to Attic comedy...
...become a fossil, contained gold plate and coins which weighed 100 pounds and whose value was $25,000. Dr. Schlieman opened in all 6 tombs and found many valuable relics of gold, silver and bronze. These tombs are all thought to belong to the mythical age before the Dorian invasion of the Peloponnesus. Tiryns like Mycenae was at its height during the heroic age and was the home of many great demagogues. After the Dorian invasion Tiryns and Mycenal were both subjects of Argos. Dr. Schlieman found ruins of large palaces, at Tiryns and Mycenae, which so resemble the ruins...