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- Ancient Greek theatre (7531 bytes)
7: ...impossible to know for sure how fertility rituals developed into tragedy and comedy.
9: ...tors and commentators. Thespis is therefore considered the first Greek "[[actor]]."
11: == Golden Age ==
13: ...ddition, the subject matter of the plays had expanded so that rather than just Dionysus, they treated ...
15: ...lso during this period, Greek theatre spread outside of Athens. Athens' Dionysia remained the most im... - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
2: ...ur. She was nominated for twelve Best Actress Academy Awards, the record for nominations until 2003, ...
5: ...d with giving her a sense of adventure and independence.
7: ...l for figure skating from the [[Madison Square Garden]] skating club, shooting golf in the low eightie...
8: ...and information about her brother's apparent suicide and its great impact on Hepburn -->
10: ...ay her degree was in drama -->, the same year she debuted on [[Broadway]] after landing a bit part in ... - Ancient Greece (23806 bytes)
2: '''''Ancient Greece''''' is the term used to describe the [[Ancient Greek|Greek]]-speaking world ...
4: ...ns use the term more precisely. Some writers include the periods of the [[Minoan civilization|Minoan]]...
6: ... the Ancient Greek period is the death of [[Alexander the Great]] in [[323 BC]]. The following period ...
10: ...ystems, philosophy, art and architecture of the modern world, particularly during the [[Renaissance]] ...
15: ... died in [[323 BC|323 BC]]. Subsequent events are described in [[History of Hellenistic Greece]]. - Achaeus of Eretria (1299 bytes)
1: ...lude ''Adrastus'', ''Linus'', ''Cycnus'', ''Eumenides'', ''Philoctetes'', ''Pirithous'', ''Theseus'', ...
3: ...Aristophanes]]' ''[[The Frogs]]'' suggests he was dead by [[405 BC]]. Some classicists suggest that hi...
5: ...o obscurity. Athenaeus also claimed that [[Euripides]] took a line from Achaeus, while Aristophanes q... - Aeschylus (5184 bytes)
2: ...ans]], the others being [[Sophocles]] and [[Euripides]].
9: ... his gravestone was written by himself before his death, and makes no mention of his theatrical renown...
12: ...peak of his bravery, and so will the longhaired Mede who learnt it well".
19: ...rst two parts of the Oresteia end unhappily. Besides the literary merit of his work, Aeschylus' great...
22: *''[[The Suppliants]]'' ([[490 BC]]?) (''Hiketides'') - Agathon (3124 bytes)
1: ...lato's ''[[Symposium (Plato)|Symposium]],'' which describes the banquet given to celebrate his obtaini...
4: ...rlesques his flowery style, representing him as a delicate and effeminate youth, and it may be only fo...
6: ...t in manly thought and vigor. With him begins the decline of tragic art in its higher sense. - Anaxagoras (6622 bytes)
4: ...ch he surrendered, from a fear that they would hinder his search after knowledge.
5: ...ere is no reason for the theory that he studied under [[Hermotimus]] of Clazomenae, the ancient miracl...
9: ...to love and admire him and the poet [[Euripides]] derived from him an enthusiasm for science and human...
14: ...s led him to form new theories of the universal order, and brought him into collision with the popular...
15: ...meteor]]s, [[rainbow]]s and the [[sun]], which he described as a mass of blazing metal, larger than th... - Giovanni Boccaccio (10149 bytes)
2: ...tic, spirited and clever individuals who are grounded in reality (in contradiction to the characters o...
5: ...lso the place of his birth, this has been largely depreciated as a romanticism and his place of birth ...
7: ... which he had no affinity and he eventually persuaded his father to let him study law at the ''Studium...
9: ...s with fellow scholars. His early influences included Paolo da Perugia (a curator and author of a coll...
11: ...eoffrey Chaucer|Chaucer]]'s ''[[Troilus and Criseyde]]''), ''Teseida'' (ditto the ''Knight's Tale''), ... - Culture of Italy (11004 bytes)
11: ... at [[Monza]]. The beginnings of [[chess theory]] developed in Italy in 16th and 17th centuries.
17: ...onsider dialects of modern Italian. Examples include [[Milanese]], spoken near the city of [[Milan]], ...
23: ...aly. The [[Pope]] of the Roman Catholic Faith resides withing Rome in what is now known as the [[Vatic...
31: ...alian art stretches from the Roman times to the Modern era. Several famous artists are from Italy. It...
37: ...ilm [[The Passion of the Christ]] was recently made in Italy. - Drama (12658 bytes)
1: ...eant to be read rather than staged; examples include the plays of [[Seneca]], ''[[Manfred]]'' by [[Geo...
3: ...dians applied it to the plays they wrote; [[Euripides]] is portrayed in the [[Acharnians]] of [[Aristo...
7: ... drama as an umbrella, with all of its subforms underneath it.
13: ... another character or situation gives a greater understanding of what is happening around us.
15: ...about how hard it must be to live alone. They broadened their own perceptions of the world. This all o... - Adriatic Sea (5830 bytes)
1: [[Image:Adriatic_sea.jpg|thumb|250px|Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A...
11: ...y; in [[Latin]] it was ''Mare Hadriaticum''. In modern languages, it is ''Mare Adriatico'' in [[Italia...
13: ...des, ''Hippolytus,'' 736), but was gradually extended as the [[Syracuse, Italy|Syracusan]] colonies ga...
15: ...then the Adriatic in the narrower sense only extended as far as the [[Mons Garganus]], the outer porti...
16: ...ately used to include the Gulf of Tarentum (the modern-day [[Gulf of Taranto]]), the [[Sea of Sicily]]... - Dionysus (15630 bytes)
3: ... lover of [[peace]] — as well as the patron deity of both [[agriculture]] and the [[theater]].
5: ...he [[Greek mythology|Olympian tradition]] he is made to be the son of [[Zeus]] and [[Semele]]; other v...
9: ...us rites]], such as those practiced in honor of [[Demeter]] and [[Persephone]] at [[Eleusinian Mysteri...
11: ...nysus is a [[syncretism]] of a local Greek nature deity and a more powerful god from [[Thrace]] or [[P...
15: ...2.jpg|thumb|250px|Statute of Dionysos. Image provided by [http://classroomclipart.com Classroom Clip A... - Ancient music (3386 bytes)
2: '''Ancient music''' is [[music]] that developed in literate cultures, replacing [[prehisto...
4: ...usic]]. For [[Arab music]], [[ancient history]] ended in [[622 CE]].
6: ...Ajax (play)|Ajax]]''), a few [[hymn]]s by [[Mesomedes]] of [[Crete]] ([[second century AD]]), and the ...
8: ...nsidered to continue its "ancient" style and includes much [[Asian music]], [[Jewish music]], [[Greek ...
12: ...ved both [[Iraqi wars]], and attempts are being made to play a replica of it as part of a touring [[or... - History of political science (4644 bytes)
2: ===Antecedents of political science===
3: ...eone studying politics and increasing political understanding.
5: ...ato's analysis to include historical empirical evidence in his analysis.
7: ... history, understanding methods of governing, and describing the operation of governments.
9: ...with those of [[Christianity]], redefining the borders between what was religious and what was politic... - Greek theatre (7531 bytes)
7: ...impossible to know for sure how fertility rituals developed into tragedy and comedy.
9: ...tors and commentators. Thespis is therefore considered the first Greek "[[actor]]."
11: == Golden Age ==
13: ...ddition, the subject matter of the plays had expanded so that rather than just Dionysus, they treated ...
15: ...lso during this period, Greek theatre spread outside of Athens. Athens' Dionysia remained the most im... - September 23 (7397 bytes)
5: ...e (run by [[Phidippides (Marathon runner)|Phidippides]])
10: ...me Richard (1765)|USS Bonhomme Richard]]'', commanded by [[John Paul Jones]], wins a fight against the...
14: ... the first professional [[baseball]] team, is founded in [[New York]].
16: *[[1868]] - [[Grito de Lares]] (Lares Revolt) occurs in [[Puerto Rico]] ...
27: ...Abbott]], best-selling author, is arrested for murder
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