The royal court had gradually lost its monopoly on music, in large part from instability that the Commonwealth of England's dissolution and the Glorious Revolution enacted on court musicians. In 1672, the former court musician John Banister began giving popular public concerts at a London tavern;...
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...
Regarded as one of the greatest Greek composers and a legend in his native land, Manos Hadjidakis is also one of the best-known internationally thanks to a body of works that touches many musical genres, from concert music to popular songs and scores for the stage and screen. Hadjidakis and...
δος μοιπουστωκαικινωτηνγην— Dos moi pou sto kai kino taen gaen (in epigram form, as given by Pappus, classical Greek).δος μοιπαστωκαιταγανκινάσω— Dos moi pa sto kai tan gan kinaso (Doric Greek).Give me a place t...
Origins and Birth Cupid Carving His Bow(1620s) by François Duquesnoy, Bode Museum, Berlin. /Wikimedia Commons The Romans reinterpreted myths and concepts pertaining to the Greek Eros for Cupid in their own literature and art, and medieval and Renaissance mythographers conflate the two freely....
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 ...
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...
Its chronological ambit extends back roughly twenty years, but remains flexible enough to consider much earlier translations when current ones fall well below their quality. The presentation, however, avoids a strict diachronic approach in preference for a grouping by genre. GREEK LITERATURE 1. Homer...
in Latin and Greek; on the Hellenism of Martí and other Cuban contemporaries of Rizal, see E. Miranda Cancela,La tradición helénica en Cuba, Havana, 2003. Rizal’s classicism was moreover in keeping with that of other Filipino writers and artists with whom he associated in Spain, as is...
in Lloyd,Methods and Problems in Greek Science (Cambridge: University Press, 1991), 199–223. Article Google Scholar P.M. Fraser,Ptolemaic Alexandria (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972; 3 vols.), I, 364–369, and II, 539–551 nn. 241–329. Google Scholar Wesley Smith, “Galen on Coa...