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...here into a synopsis of the play. Suffice it to say the tragedy retains for an American audience an astonishing interest, and bring vividly before us the fact that in many ways little more than a long term of years separates us from the feeling and spirit of the Grecian time. Save during one or two chorus scenes the listener almost continually found himself so absorbed as to be utterly unconscious that he was listening to a production of more than twenty centuries...
...site of exploration hitherto offered for the investigation of Grecian antiquities compares in promised fertility with Delphi. The French government have had the refusal of the privilege of investigation, but the recent failure of the French Senate to ratify a commercial treaty under negotiation has made its acceptance impossible. Thus the Greek government offers Delphi to the world, to be sold to the highest bidder. Fully $80,000 is necessary for its purchase, as the village of Castri is situated on the site. For the purpose of raising this money, a group of New York gentlemen are soliciting subscriptions...
...only letters. The first part of the 18th century saw much time uselessly wasted, but in the latter part great progress was made and the final stroke was given by the discovery of the famous Rosetta Stone in 1799, which had an inscription in three languages, the Egyptian, Grecian, and Demotic. By means of the Greek, the other characters were easily deciphered. The second source of our knowledge of ancient Egypt is derived from the writings of the historian Manatho. He divided its history into dynasties, the first two being those of the gods, the second two of the demi...
Further, a contest that within the last few years has had a place in the programme of most athletic meetings is even more directly one in which the ancients took part. The "tug-of-war" is quite a modern institution, but is very nearly the same as a Grecian trial of strength, which appears to have been arranged in two ways, in one of which the only difference between it and the present "tug-of-war" is that fewer persons took part in it, and that they stood up instead of partly sitting as they do now. In the other...
With reference to the ancients, we know very little of the real performances of their athletes It is only very occasionally that any of the classical historians relate details, and some of these are obviously incorrect. For instance, it is recorded that the Grecian Phallos, with the aid of the "Halteeres" leaped a distance of 55 feet. "Halteeres" were something similar, to our dumb bells, which the Greeks held in their hands while leaping. They put their hands back, and, swinging them forward with a sudden motion, took the leap. There is no doubt thert use enabled them to jump...