Word: greeks
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cincinnati journalist in 1886 about a Harnett called The Old Violin, that a special guard "has been detailed to stand beside the picture and suppress any attempts to take down the fiddle and the bow." To some, Harnett suggested a classical parallel. He was the American Zeuxis, the Greek painter (none of whose works survive) who was said to be so good at trompe l'oeil that birds flew down to peck the grapes in one of his still lifes, thus proving that he could bamboozle not only men but Nature herself. People loved Harnett's work because they felt...
...think it's a shame that three very promising graduate students are leaving our department. For our Classics community here, students and faculty alike, this is a time for introspection, not public speculation," said Nagy, who is also Jones professor of classical Greek literature and professor of comparative literature...
...issue has been discussed at a number of faculty meeting, and at meetings with students and faculty, said Professor of Greek and Latin Charles P. Segal...
There are three senior and two junior womenprofessors in the department, but none are in thephilology program. Philology is the word-basedanalysis of classical Greek and Latin literature...
...training to be a surgeon -- one of Australia's first medical specialists of Vietnamese origin -- in Launceston, Tasmania. He has easily moved into the society he has come to call his own. Nguyen's sister married an Australian of Irish descent; one of his friends is a Greek who taught Nguyen Greek folk dancing at his wedding...