In the Western classical tradition, Homer is the author of theIliadand theOdyssey, and is revered as the greatest of ancient Greek epic poets. These epics lie at the beginning of the Western canon of literature,
图片配的也很有代表性。Chpt.1 The Essentials of ArchitectureClassical architecture has its roots in antiquity, in the temple architecture of the Greek world and the religious, military and civil architecture of Romans.First definition of classicism: a classical building is one whose decorative elements...
.Footnote19Not a mere romantic interest in the ‘generally Greek’ then, but rather a fairly unorthodox concern with the ‘generally human’ in all its political, social and psychological implications grounded his approach to the history of literature, as much as his suspicious reception of every ...
op. 73: “Battle, Prayer and Folk Festival.” For while the opening joys seem set in stone, they quickly crumble as more desperate convolutions come to the fore before the piano moves to its highest registers in a rousing meta statement. The Adagio un poco moto...
in the fight against Typhon by telling the story of Fenyx. Through personal testimonies of the Greek gods, the story effectively leads to Zeus’s realization that he has failed as a father and ruler of the gods. The game is noteworthy for the humour with which its dialogues and characters ...
Musically, culturally and artistically, the dance of death has its origins in medieval France. Dancing and death went hand in hand – the allegory of the longest sleep. Hans Holbein – Nuremburg Chronicle c. 1493 The Danse Macabre was designed to show us that no matter our station in life...
(2000: 50). Further, northwestern Europeans constructed an intellectual monopoly on the heritage of ancient Greece from the late eighteenth century onwards so that the notion of classical Greek origins became integral to the definition of ‘European-ness’ and a foundation myth of Western suprem...
He has amassed a mountain of evidence in favor of the Baltic origins of both Greek epics. Similarities between the mythologies of the North and the Mediterranean have often been pointed out. Vinci argues that a deterioration in climate around 2000 B.C. caused some of the Scandinavian peoples ...
20–21). Latin preceded Greek and Hebrew, and, in his youthful poem to his father, Ad Patrem, he calls Latin and the eloquence it realizes “Romulean” (Milton 2008, p. 79), that is, the language of the founder of the city of Rome. Classical Latin, and the Roman culture it ...
Yet to fully encompass the rich heritage of music in world religions, the theology of music must welcome non-Western traditions. After introducing ancient Greek and Biblical narratives regarding the origins of music, including metaphysical concepts, narratives of music as Divine Gift, musical angels,...