Word: theban
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...name of a 4th century B.C. Theban general who defeated the Spartans...
...colorless at first, but in the scene where she is commanded by Lysistrata to raise Cinesias to fever pitch and then leave him high and dry, she becomes a genuinely enticing piece, a bit of voluptuous femininity. Unfortunately, Dorothea Chunis as Kalonike and Elin Diamond as a bucolic Theban woman had roles far too small for actresses of their ability; Miss Diamond, in particular, created an unforgettable character with several grunts, a grimace or two, and some well-timed spitting...
...After all, Sophocles' own version of the tale was far from the first, and contained its own innovations. Before Sophocles, Antigone was supported in her act by other young maidens; and she was defying, not Creon and his guards, but the corporate decree of the entire Theban Senate. Sophocles had the inspired idea of placing Antigone in glorious isolation; and, as Sir Donald F. Tovey said in a quite different context, "Nothing in human life and history is much more thrilling or of more ancient and universal experience than the antithesis of the individual and the crowd." It was Sophocles...
Mask & Marsh. Although Tut's burial effects have traveled before (34 objects toured the U.S. in 1961-62), their Parisian trip was arranged with unprecedented showmanship by that esthetic Barnum. Culture Minister André Malraux. After first viewing a roomful of statuary entitled "The Theban Cradle of the Child King," the visitor accompanies the boy on his twilight journey from death and burial to resurrection and fusion with Osiris, god of the dead. In a dimly lit Salle Royale hung with blue velvet, glows the gold funeral chair, with its big-horned sacred cows for armrests, that was made...
...ancient classics that are being turned into briskly readable, contemporary English by such able writers as Robert Graves (The Golden Ass of Apuleius. Lucan's Pharsalia), Rolfe Humphries (Ovid's Metamorphoses), Moses Hadas (An Ethiopian Romance by Heliodorus), Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald (Sophocles' Theban plays), Stanley Alexander Handford (Caesar's Gallic Wars...