Word: sth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...elaborate Greek insult to editorial pencil wielders. Rhypokondylos, used in a fragment of Plato Comicus (sth century B.C.) and meaning "with dirty knuckles," can also, by a slight linguistic stretch, be taken to mean "with dirty pencils," since a later Greek word for pencil is kondylion...
...equaling. Spread out before him were sacred and profane works never, or rarely, exhibited. Items: a 9th century copy of Terence's comedies, with illustrations showing actors in the authentic costumes of ancient Rome; Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II's 13th century manual on falconry; an illustrated sth century copy of Vergil. He also saw many Bibles -but none that surpasses in beauty the work commissioned by Federigo da Montefeltro, Duke of Urbino (1444-82), and one of the keenest bibliophiles of the" Renaissance...
...TWELVE PICTURES, by Edith Simon (367 pp.; Putnam; $3.95), is bathed in eerie, sth century Teutonic mists as British Novelist Simon (The Golden Hand) retells the dark, doom-laden Nibelungenlied. The events in it are drawn from somewhat different sources from the ones Wagner used in his familiar brooding operas. Siegfried, hero of the Rhine, jilts Brunhilde and marries a princess of Burgundy named Kriemhild. Brunhilde, a kind of earth-mother goddess, carries a torch for her lost love, but Hagen, the One-eyed, who believes the pagan gods have been flouted by this turn of affairs, pries from Kriemhild...
...period piece about England under Henry VIII. In The Golden Hand, Edith Simon told a leisurely tale about an English cathedral town and the faith that sustained it (14th century). In The Little Emperors, Alfred Duggan made diverting entertainment out of the fall of the Roman Empire in Britain (sth century). Now, in an almost equally engaging yarn, Henry Treece reaches back to the time (ist century) when the Romans had just conquered Britain-an era when proper Britons worshipped the sun and painted blue marks on their foreheads to show their rank...
This should be certified as a strictly ancient chestnut. For comparison, see A Fickle Widow, a i sth century Chinese story by an unknown author...