Word: hippolytus
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...stage productions of many of them. When enthusiastic playgoers shouted "Murray" and "Author" after one production of a Euripides tragedy translated by Murray, the scholar rose from his seat and said simply that the author had been dead for many years. Nonetheless, Murray's translations of Electro, and Hippolytus made Euripides (484?-4O7 B.C.) an international bestseller in English...
...Thirty-seven antipopes* are listed, the first of whom-Hippolytus of the 3rd Century-is still considered a saint. From four legitimate pontiffs the designation' of sainthood was removed...
Euripides: Hippolytus...
...every month in the year. Widely celebrated with independent local feasts throughout Christendom, by the 4th Century it became settled upon Dec. 25, possibly through the influence of old pagan midwinter festivals. Long before Professor Gerhardt of Berlin could make use of astronomy in his researches, the church father Hippolytus picked April 2 as Christ's birthday. Arguments against its falling in winter are that this is Palestine's rainy season: the Romans would not have then held the census which brought Joseph and Mary to Bethlehem; nor would the shepherds who gathered around Christ's manger...
...taken, that "the matter has been satisfactorily cleared up by publicity." President MacCracken had other things to do just then. A life mask had been taken of his face, from which was modelled a bulbous, theatrical mask. He was busy learning and polishing up Greek lines for the Hippolytus of Euripides. An able actor, Dr. MacCracken has appeared before in Vassar plays, has many times amused his students with burlesque speeches on Founder's Day. Last week he donned his mask and buskins and played Theseus, father of Hippolytus who spurns the love of his stepmother. Phaedra. An actress (Phaedra...