Word: tyrannus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Toccata and Fugue in D minor), Mozart's A major Violin Concerto, and Wotan's Farewell and the Fire Music from "Die Walkure". On Monday night in Jordan Hall, the Orchestra of the New England Conservatory of Music is to perform the prelude to John Knowles Paine's "Oedipus Tyrannus", three excerpts from John Alden Carpenter's "Adventures in a Perambulator", and other interesting works...
Greater than life, the Greeks said. So those who understood created "Seven against Thebes," "The Frogs," "Oedipus Tyrannus." But lesser men followed, and they could not understand. The race of blue-eyed, fair-haired men discovered that the secret of greatness is a mystery not to be taught, rarely to be learned. The Romans came, conquered, and the lamp was extinguished...
...great trilogy, Aeschylus made Prometheus, the fire-bringer, pay a fearful price for defying Zeus. On seeing Sophocles' Oedipus Rex & Oedipus Tyrannus good Athenian audiences were properly shocked at the King's insensate stubbornness in attempting to influence economic conditions. The mythical hubris of the Trojans before their city was sacked was only matched by the historical hubris of the Athenians themselves just before their defeat in the Peloponnesian...
...Menaechmi" is the first Latin play to be presented for public performance by the club, which has been at work on the production since last March, and is the fourth classical play to be given in the original language at Harvard. "Oedipus Tyrannus" was presented in 1881 with Owen Wister '82 in the cast and G. L. Kittredge '81 prompter. Thirteen years later the "Phormio" of Terence was given, with (now) Professor E. K. Rand '94 taking the leading role. The presentation of the "Agamemnon" in the Soldiers Field Stadium in 1906 was a brilliant spectacle...