Word: doric
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...feet long and one hundred and one wide. The outer colonnade consisted of seventeen columns on the sides and eight on the ends. These columns were about five and one-half diameters, or thirty-four feet in height. Each was ornamented by twenty flutings, which were of the strict Doric style...
...most striking influence of Assyrian as well as Egyptian art can be traced in the archaic sculpture and bas-reliefs of Greece. Greek vases have been found, the figures on which are known to have been copied directly from Egyptian monuments, and the famous Doric Column is but a development of a form common in Assyrian architecture. It was not in the form alone that foreign influence is traced in Greek art; many of the ideas one derived from the Assyrian and Egyptian mythology...
...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...
...disturbed in any way, of chewing the knuckle of his thumb. On one occasion when he had been lecturing on the relations of good and evil of the world, he was asked by some inquisitive divinity student to explain the origin of evil. Replied the president, with a strong Doric accent: - "Well, ye have asked me a vera deeficult question. All the feelosophers of antiquity have tried their hand at it. Sookrates tried it and failed; Plato did no better. Descarites, Spinoza and Leibnitz were obliged to confess it was too much for them. Kant tried it and made...