Within Ancient Greek culture, the sacred rites of Dionysus have been appropriated and transformed to theatre performances. The shaman became the actor, the participants became the audience, the sacred altar became the stage. From myth as a ritual performance emerged the theatre of tragedy, in ...
For most of Antiquity, theart of ancient Persiawas closely intertwined with that of its neighbours, especially Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq), and influenced - and was influenced by - Greek art. Early Persian works of portable art feature the intricate ceramics from Susa and Persepolis (c.3000...
Greek tragedy, created in the city-state of Athens in the last thirty years of the sixth century B.C.E., is the earliest kind of European drama. Its subject matter is normally drawn from mythology, except that for the ancient Greeks "mythology" was a kind of historical saga, often ...
Although it should be said that ancient Etruscan art should be viewed as an example of assimilation and development of the ancient Greek, rather than a mere copy, it should also be recognised that the Etruscan aesthetic need was driven by the need to show wealth and depict religious rites rat...
ATHENS, Aug. 3 (Xinhua) -- The Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Athens' impressive ancient theatre under the Acropolis, came alive with the youthful voices and the passionate performance of Sistema Europe Youth Orchestra (SEYO) this week. On Tuesday evening 421 students of 27 nationalities, aged from...
It is not known whether the Phoenicians embroidered themselves, but they spread embroidery throughout the ancient world - to Greece, from where it reached Rome and the West. Rome copied the Oriental and Greek designs but the coming of Christianity introduced new inspirations. 展开 ...
Solon, one of the original Seven sages of the ancient world, and the reformer that revamped Draconian law The laws he laid down were extremely tough, so much so that they were reputed to be written in blood. Death was the punishment for just about every misdemeanour, even that of g...
Publication » The Historical Origins of Algebraic Thinking. LG Radford - Springer Netherlands 被引量: 56发表: 2001年 Issues and Problems in the Development of Contemporary Macromarketing Knowledge AbstractMacromarketing ideas date back to economic notions expressed by ancient Greek philosophers. Economists...
Classical Greek Theatre BI BLIOGRAPHY Aeschines. The Speeches ofAeschines. Translated by Charles Darwin Adams. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1919. Akurgal, Ekrem. Ancient Civilizations and Ruins ofTurkey. 6th ed. Istanbul: Ha~et Kitabevi, 1985. An... C Ashby 被引量: 4发表: 19...
Greek forms that one would call satiric. But the Greeks had no specific word for satire, and bysatura(which meant originally something like “medley” or “miscellany” and from which comes the Englishsatire) Quintilian intended to specify that kind of poem “invented” byGaius Lucilius, ...