Word: thoricus
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Professor White describes briefly the work which the school has carried on, including the unearthing of the theatre at Thoricus, "one of the most important and oldest of the Greek theatres which the excavations of fifteen years have brought to light"; he also offers some suggestions for the improvement of the organization and conduct of the school. He favors the existing plan of a director with five years' residence in Greece, and recommends two annual professors instead of one, as at present. His suggestion that the Archaeological Institute found two fellowships of $600 a year, to be filled by competitive...
...brief papers on set themes. A great variety of topics was presented for discussion at the weekly sessions of the school. Besides these private sessions, three public sessions were held during the year, at which carefully prepared papers were read on 'The Site of the Pnyx,' 'The Theatre at Thoricus,' and 'The Appreciation of Nature exhibited in the Tragedies of Euripides.' At the last session accounts also were given of the excavations at Croton by Mr. Joseph Thacher Clark and Dr. A. Emerson, and of those at Sicyon by the director...
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