Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more gratuitous. The costumes, for example, mix antiquity and modernity with no apparent purpose. Medea's children appear in sneakers, T-shirts and togas; Jason wears a suit with a classical sash. This juxtaposition seems to have little point except to remind the audience that this is a Serious Greek Tragedy...
...Continent's southern flank, villages on the Aegean islands were busily trading olive oil, wine and pottery with the Greek mainland and Crete. In Crete fashionable women sported ankle-length dresses, with necklines low enough to make Madonna blush. (The art of weaving originated more than a millennium earlier.) And in the Balkans metallurgists were hard at work crafting elaborate tools of lead, copper and iron and spectacular ornaments of gold...
Beltran sang in Greek, Spanish and English, while Paul sang a tune about Wilbur, the politically incorrect rat. The concert lineup also included local artists Barbara Kessler, with Orrin Star and Rod MacDonald making surprise appearances...
...surprise event occurred as Nagy took the Sanders Theatre stage for his core course, Literature and the Arts C-14, "The Concept of the Hero in Greek Civilization...
...ever-popular Gregory Nagy, Jones professor of classical Greek literature, received a 50th birthday celebration fit for a hero yesterday from 600 of his favorite undergrads...