Word: greeks
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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...
...attention of the student body to the performance of "Medea." to be given next Thursday, December 6th, at 2.30 P. M. in the Colonial Theatre, by Mr. Conried's lrving Place Theatre Company of New York. Grillparzer's "Medea" is one of the few really great modernizations of a Greek subject, and ranks in elevation of feeling and purity of style with such masterpieces as Goethe's "Iphigenia" or Sophocles' "Antigone." From the criticism of the New York papers it appears that Mr. Conried's company is this year particularly good, so that we may probably look forward...
Professor G. F. Moore will deliver a lecture on "The Greek Influence on the Religion of Israel," in King's Chapel, Boston, at 3 o'clock this afternoon. This is the last of Professor Moore's course of three lectures on "Foreign Influences on the Religion of Israel." The course is the second of six courses of free lectures delivered in King's Chapel on Monday afternoons, maintained by the Lowell Institute under the auspices of the Harvard Divinity School...
Today is the last day for making applications for permission to compete for the Charles Eliot Norton Fellowship in Greek Studies for the year 1907-08. Applications must be made to Professor A. A. Howard, chairman of the Department of Classics...