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- Ancient Greek theatre (7531 bytes)
17: ...s]] (who added a third actor to his plays), and [[Euripides]] and the comic writer [[Aristophanes]]. Their p...
21: ...was [[Greek comedy#New Comedy|New Comedy]]. The only extant playwright from the period is [[Menander]...
37: ...the side of a hill. Greek theatres, then, could only be built on hills that were correctly shaped. A...
43: ...ndicate objects. The convention of plays having only two or three actors meant that an actor had to p... - Katharine Hepburn (23170 bytes)
19: ... [[Great Neck, New York]]. The producer had suddenly fired the play's original leading lady and asked...
50: ... working-class machismo. Tracy seemed to be the only one Hepburn would allow to tame her. When [[Jos...
70: ...Mrs. Venable in [[Tennessee Williams]]'s ''[[Suddenly Last Summer]]'' (1959) and as Mary Tyrone in the...
75: ...]]'' (1969), ''[[The Trojan Women]]'' (1971) by [[Euripides]], and [[Edward Albee]]'s ''[[A Delicate Balance]...
149: * ''[[Suddenly Last Summer]]'' ([[1959]])—[[Academy Award... - Ancient Greece (23806 bytes)
2: ...]-speaking world in ancient times. It refers not only to the territory of the present [[Greece|Greek s...
15: ...ges|dark age]]" from which no primary texts, and only scant archaeological evidence, survive. Secondar...
50: ...Athens enrolled all the island states and some mainland allies into an alliance, called the [[Delian L...
58: ...the dramatists [[Aeschylus]], [[Aristophanes]], [[Euripides]], and [[Sophocles]], the philosophers [[Aristotl...
97: ...n, but many idealists from the Greek cities also enlisted. But while Alexander was campaigning in Thra... - Achaeus of Eretria (1299 bytes)
3: ... BC]]. Some classicists suggest that his winning only one prize was due to him not an Athenian by birt...
5: ...cies to obscurity. Athenaeus also claimed that [[Euripides]] took a line from Achaeus, while Aristophanes qu... - Aeschylus (5184 bytes)
2: ...ragedians]], the others being [[Sophocles]] and [[Euripides]].
9: ...e chose to commemorate his military achievements only. It read:
19: ...or and the [[Greek chorus]]. This invention was only attributed to him by later tradition, however.
21: ...eschylus is known to have written over 70 plays, only six of which remain extant: - Agathon (3124 bytes)
1: ...CE]]) was an Athenian tragic poet and friend of [[Euripides]] and [[Plato]]. He is best known from his menti...
4: ...s a delicate and effeminate youth, and it may be only for the sake of punning on his name that he make...
6: ...ent of truly virile expression and deficient in manly thought and vigor. With him begins the decline o... - Anaxagoras (6622 bytes)
9: ...s]] learned to love and admire him and the poet [[Euripides]] derived from him an enthusiasm for science and ...
15: ...metal, larger than the [[Peloponnesus]]; the heavenly bodies were masses of stone torn from the earth ...
30: ...ork of arrangement, the segregation of like from unlike and the summation of the omoiomere into
32: ... no less illimitable than the chaotic mass, but, unlike the Intelligence of [[Heraclitus]], it stood p...
34: Its first appearance, and the only manifestation of it which Anaxagoras describes, ... - Giovanni Boccaccio (10149 bytes)
5: ...of his birth are not certain. He was almost certainly illegitimate, the son of a [[Florence|Florentine...
17: ...rature and one of his last works in Italian, the only other substantial work was the misogynist ''Corb...
19: ...s tentative translations of works by [[Homer]], [[Euripides]] and [[Aristotle]].
23: ...e, before returning to Certaldo. He met Petrarch only once more, in Padua in 1368. On hearing of the d... - Culture of Italy (11004 bytes)
8: ...mportant element of the Italian lifestyle, and mainly reflects the rural culture and history of the ma...
27: ...fricans, mostly of Berber or Arab origin, came mainly from heavily Islamic [[Morocco]], though they ha...
40: ... example, Seneca's Phaedra was based on that of [[Euripides]], and many of the [[comedies]] of [[Plautus]] we...
60: ... than that from the north [1][http://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/MIE/Part2_chapter08.html]. - Drama (12658 bytes)
3: ... tragedians applied it to the plays they wrote; [[Euripides]] is portrayed in the [[Acharnians]] of [[Aristop...
13: ...ons with others--this allows participants to not only learn facts as they would from a book or in a cl...
40: D.I.E. (Drama in Education). Unlike Theatre in education, D.I.E. is based more upo...
52: ...or wrong way of doing. As a result, its effects, unlike theater performances, are often unique and unr... - Adriatic Sea (5830 bytes)
13: ...n of the sea (Herodotus vi. 127, vii. 20, ix. 92; Euripides, ''Hippolytus,'' 736), but was gradually extended...
15: But even then the Adriatic in the narrower sense only extended as far as the [[Mons Garganus]], the ou...
20: ...it connects at the south with the Ionian Sea, is only 45 miles (72 km) wide.
39: ...long axis lying parallel with the coast of the mainland), rise rather abruptly to elevations of a few ...
41: On the mainland, notably in the magnificent inlet of the [[Boka Kotorska]] (Bocche di Cattaro) (n... - Dionysus (15630 bytes)
3: ...the [[Thracian]] god of [[wine]], represents not only the [[intoxicating]] power of wine, but also its...
26: ...analia were held in secret and attended by women only, on three days in the year in the grove of [[Sim...
42: ...drove the Titans away with his thunderbolts, but only after the Titans ate everything but the heart, w...
67: ...ions him only briefly and with much hostility. [[Euripides]] also wrote a tale concerning the destructive na... - Ancient music (3386 bytes)
6: ...s from [[tragedy]] (a [[chorus|choral song]] by [[Euripides]] for his ''[[Orestes (play)|Orestes]]'' and an [... - History of political science (4644 bytes)
5: ...], [[Thucydides]], [[Plato]], [[Xenophon]], and [[Euripides]]. Later, Plato analyzed political systems and ab...
13: ...c paradigm during the [[the Age of Enlightenment|Enlightenment]] further pushed the study of politics ... - Greek theatre (7531 bytes)
17: ...s]] (who added a third actor to his plays), and [[Euripides]] and the comic writer [[Aristophanes]]. Their p...
21: ...was [[Greek comedy#New Comedy|New Comedy]]. The only extant playwright from the period is [[Menander]...
37: ...the side of a hill. Greek theatres, then, could only be built on hills that were correctly shaped. A...
43: ...ndicate objects. The convention of plays having only two or three actors meant that an actor had to p... - September 23 (7397 bytes)
36: *[[480 BC]] - [[Euripides]], playwright (d. [[406 BC]])
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