Word: peloponnesian
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...play directed by Robert B. Nichols '41, describes the efforts of an Athenian hero to end the Peloponnesian war through divine intercession. The hero, played by Nichols mounts to Olympus on the Greek rocket ship, the "Dung Beetle...
...power from southern to northern Europe she has been a pawn in all great struggles for power. Salonika is a back door to Central Europe, a jumping-off place to the Dardanelles and the Black Sea. Rocky Greek islands straggle across the Aegean to the shores of Turkey. The Peloponnesian Peninsula lies close to Italy; Crete, halfway to Africa. In this war Greece's fate was settled at Brennero on Oct. 4, when Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini planned their drive to the east. For Greece is the key to control of two of the three routes...
...Peloponnesian and Thirty Years Wars were cited as examples of supposedly idealistic struggles upon which history has rendered a different verdict. Future historians, it was pointed out, may write that "we are today fighting a futile imperialistic war for what we think is democracy, and wrecking our world as completely as they wrecked theirs...
Aristophanes was sick of the Peloponnesian War when it started. Twenty years later, in 411 B.C., he was even sicker. Athens' allies were slipping away; the Syracuse expedition had ended in crushing disaster. But whenever one side suggested peace, the other side was doing too well with the war to call it off. Then Aristophanes wrote Lysistrata. What if all the women of Athens united, seized the Acropolis, told the men they would live resolutely continent till the war ended? Aristophanes suggested that the war would end at once...
With the Olympic Games well-publicized as high-strung, hard-boiled contests of national brawn, the fact that the original Peloponnesian games brought together poets and artificers as well as wrestlers, runners and javelin hurlers is of importance chiefly to classicists. But for years that fact has been bothering a sturdy, swart Philadelphian named Samuel Stuart Fleisher. Since he and his brother Edwin retired from their prosperous family cotton yarn mills, they have collected art and musical manuscripts, busied themselves with philanthropies, gently propagated Brother Samuel's dream of "Cultural Olympics" which every artist in the U. S. could...