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While it is just being rediscovered, Thrace's craftsmanship was well known to its neighbors: in Book X of the Iliad, Homer writes of the Thracian King Rhesos: "His chariot is a masterwork in gold and silver, and the armor, huge and golden, brought by him here is marvelous to see, like no war-gear of men but of immortals." But these are more than gorgeous works of art. The elaborate figures depicted by and on these objects, and the stylistic themes they reflect, give historians their first direct window onto Thracian society, commerce, religion and, in at least...
...life he was compared (often by himself) to an eagle, a titan, an ogre, a monster; to Homer, Shakespeare, Dante and Cervantes. He wrote enormous, turbulent, dark novels, two of which (Les Miserables and Notre-Dame de Paris, known in English as The Hunchback of Notre Dame) in our own day have been turned, respectively, into a kitsch-book musical and a saccharine Disney film. Few read the originals, at least in English, though they are of course more disturbing and entertaining than their modern clones. He wrote 21 plays, which transformed the French theater, hoicking...
...Crimson jumped out to a 2-1 lead after one, on the strength of Ralph's third homer of his young season, a two-run shot that just cleared the leftfield fence...
After sophomore designated hitter Steve Langone led off with a solo homer, junior second baseman Mike Gambino followed an infield single with a hot grounder to third that snuck under Woodfork's glove...
Leading 9-6, Walsh looked to wrap things up and get his ace some work by bringing in junior righthander Andrew Duffell. But Duffell took some time getting into his rhythm, giving up a leadoff homer and loading the bases on a walk, an error and a single...