Word: greekness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...artistic expression. Eventually, in catacombs and cemeteries, pictorial art did appear in frescoes and sarcophagi reliefs, but statuary is so rare that scholars have concluded that it was once forbidden. The principal exception is the figure of a shepherd carrying a wounded sheep across his shoulders. With classical Greek sculptures of Hermes as a ready model, it was so common that even given the Christian significance of Jesus as the Good Shepherd, it was not considered idolatrous...
...death and resurrection. But early Christian depictions of the event as sculpture are all but unknown; apart from Cleveland's acquisitions, only one other marble group, found at Tarsus in 1876, is known to exist. As he is portrayed in Cleveland's marbles, Jonah resembles the Greek river god appearing in some Antioch mosaics, and the sculptor gave his fancy free rein in carving the curious sea monster with leonine feet and massive ears...
...entire history of art." It is thus the only such group in the world to portray the Jonah story from beginning to end. The works were probably commissioned by an unknown early Christian for a cubiculum. As for the artist, scholarship can only produce guesses; he was almost certainly Greek, or at least Greek trained, and probably pagan. Even the site at which the marbles were recently unearthed remains a dealer's secret. Says Curator Wixom: "Antioch seems the most likely candidate...
...Ketos in Greek means "sea monster" or "sea dragon"; not until the Bible was translated into English did it become a whale...
...effect of the vast complex of apartheid laws is often ridiculous. The Japanese, who trade heavily with South Africa, are officially classified as "whites"; East Indians, who are descended from Caucasian stock, are '"Asians." A Greek immigrant from Cyprus was nearly refused entrance to South Africa recently because he had acquired a deep suntan on the ship. Since white athletes are forbidden to compete against nonwhites, South Africa has had to cancel its longstanding rugby rivalry with New Zealand-which allows Maoris to play on its team...