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Titled The Sicyonian, the play seems to be about the troubles of a girl named Philomene who wanted to be recognized as a citizen of Sicyon, a city in Greece. She was kidnaped by pirates, sold as a slave to a kind old man who turned out to be her true father. This complicated matters because by then she was in love with the old man's son, her brother. Professor Bataille says that some of the play's fragments are magnificent, but too many of them are missing for a full reconstruction of the unlikely plot...
...Morrow was reading the story of Hippoclides (chapter CXXVI through CXXIX) which describes the contest Clisthenes, tyrant of Sicyon, held to choose a husband for his daughter Agarista. After a year of trial, he preferred young Hippoclides of Athens, but on the evening of the choice, Hippoclides drank wine, danced upside down on a table, disgusted Clisthenes who cried: ''You have danced away your wife!" "Hippoclides cares not," said Hippoclides...
...receive a new White House dog, Peter Pan, a wire-haired fox terrier from Boston, son of Prides Hill Sicyon and Lady Rabbie...
...Howard of Boston that he would probably accept the latter's offered gift of a wire-haired fox terrier, Peter Pan. Laddie Boy was given away by Mrs. Harding to one of the White House guards. Peter Pan, three months old, one of six children, son of Prides Hill Sicyon and Lady Babbie, bids fair to become Presidential hound...
...photographs for use in connection with these courses. Dr. Earle received the degree of B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. from Columbia, and continued his classical studies at the American School in Athens and at Berlin. In 1887 and in 1891 Dr. Earle was in charge of the excavations at Sicyon. Macmillan & Co. have recently published for Dr. Earle an edition of the Alcestic of Euripides, which has been receiving very favorable notice. Through Houghton, Mifflin & Co., Mr. More has published recently, in the form of a series of letters an account of Buddha's philosophy called "The Great Refusal...