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Twitter Google Share on Facebook Ca´ i`ra´ 1.The refrain of a famous song of the French Revolution. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co. Want to thank TFD for its existence?Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, or visitthe...
In the war of Troy, the Greeks having sacked some of the neighbouring towns, and taken from thence two beautiful captives, Chryseïs and Briseïs, allotted the first to Agamemnon, and the last to Achilles. Chryses, the father of Chryseïs, and priest of Apollo, comes to the Grecian cam...
This act of defiance prompts Spartan King Agamemnon (Brian Cox) to wage war against Troy. Achilles (Brad Pitt), the legendary warrior, finds himself embroiled in this battle, driven not by allegiance but personal glory. The film offers a spectacle of grandeur and tragedy, and won an Academy...
Taking Kevin with them, they variously drop in on Napoleon (Ian Holm), Robin Hood (John Cleese) and King Agamemnon (Sean Connery) before the Supreme Being catches up with them. Released: 1981 Directed by: Terry Gilliam Also ranks #6 on Movies Where The Main Character Is Completely ...
THE GHOST OF CLYTEMNESTRACHORUS OF FURIESATHENAATTENDANTS OF ATHENATWELVE ATHENIAN CITIZENS The Scene of the Drama is the Temple of Apollo, at Delphi: afterwards the Temple of Athena, on the Acropolis of Athens, and the adjoining Areopagus. The Temple at Delphi The Pythian Priestess First, in ...
"Delusion is the elder daughter of Zeus," says Agamemnon in The Iliad, "the accursed who deludes all; her feet are delicate and they step not on the firm earth, but she walks the air above men's heads and leads them astray ... Yes, for once Zeus even was deluded." Agamemnon ...
Afterward Nestor went to the war against Troy, and then he was the oldest of the heroes in the camp of Agamemnon. Two brothers came who were to be special friends of Jason’s– Peleus and Telamon. Both were still youthful and neither had yet achieved any notable deed. Afterward they ...
For, he argued, the sage resembles a good actor who, whether he takes up the role of Thersites or of Agamemnon, plays either part as the part demands. This striking dictum,1 drawn from one of Aristo's many famous analogies,2 gives as clear a statement of his moral doctrine as one ...
Ah! to some end of Fate, unseen, unguessed, Are these wild throbbings of my heart and breast— Yea, of some doom they tell— Each pulse, a knell. Lief, lief I were, that all To unfulfilment’s hidden realm might fall. Too far, too far our mortal spirits strive, Grasping at utte...