Word: grecian
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...incompatibility of Greek and barbarian nature is the theme of the play and the source of all the sorrows of Jason and Medea. Jason has married Medea, but the Greeks ostracize him because of his barbarian wife. Medea affects in vain the Grecian dress and Grecian accomplishments: she remains hopelessly barbarian. Finally Medea, despised by her husband, repudiated by her children, and exiled by the country, becomes possessed with jealousy and fury, sets the palace aflame, kills her children and departs. The fifth act is an epilogue. The cast of the play is as follows: Kreon, Mr. Adolph Winds Kreusa...
...LECTURES ON ANCIENT GREEK UNIVERSITY LIFE. II. Historical Survey of University Education in Grecian lands during the first five centuries of the Christian Era. Dr. John W. H. Walden. Harvard...
...LECTURES ON ANCIENT GREEK UNIVERSITY LIFE. II. Historical Survey of University Education in Grecian lands during the first five centuries of the Christian Era. Dr. John W. H. Walden. Harvard...
February 29--Historical survey of university education in Grecian lands during the first five centuries of the Christian...
...panel in tempera, representing St. Jerome and two other figures, by Fra Filippo Lippi, and a panel of the Madonna and Child, bearing the signature of John Bellini, both of which are good examples of the schools to which they respectively belong, and both are in excellent condition. A Grecian marble statue of Narcissus, the gift of the same donor, is a worthy companion to the beautiful Meleager and Aprodite before acquired. The figure, like most others of Greek antiquity that have lately been brought to light, is badly injured by the loss of important parts. The nose, both legs...