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...numerous photographs, the lecturer showed further that the forms of the columns and the entablature were derived from earlier wooden forms in use in the palaces of the heroic age. The well-known column between the two lions in the Lion's Gate differs but slightly from the earliest extant Doric columns; and in fact quite recently a column with flutings has actually been discovered in one of the ancient beehive tombs in Mycenae...
Provokingly little is known above the life of Aristophanes. Born in 444 B. C., he wrote his first play at the age of seventeen. He continued to write for forty years. Of his comedies eleven are extant besides fragments of thirty-three others. His plays are purely fanciful, as their names suggest. They contain lampoons upon the public men of the day which are sometimes bitter and always witty...
...Morris began by describing the dependence of Latin poets on Greek originals. It is difficult to trace the analogy in tragedy, as merely the scantiest fragments of Roman tragedies are extant; but in comedy the case is quite the reverse, as twenty-six plays of Plautus and Terence are preserved. In poetry the similarity can also be observed. The lyrics of Catullus and Horace were often suggested by those of Archilochus, Sappho, or Alcaeus. In Vergil the analogy is not nearly so apparent...
...round the petty annoyances of our examination system are more enforced upon the minds of all. It would seem that some of these might be done away with by the Faculty. The rule, for instance, which requires students to hand in blue books is one of the biggest nuisances extant, not only to students but to instructors as well. For a week before the examinations begin men are continually admonished that they must have their blue books in before a certain time. In the end some of them forget to get the books in; and then when the morning...
There has long been known a catalogue of Aristotle's works none of whose titles correspond with those of his extant works, and this treatise is unquestionably referred to among that class. This fact, together with the clear style of the present work in contrast to Aristotle's usual technical style supports the theory which has often been advanced that the catalogue referred to is one of Aristotle's popular works...