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The ancient Greeks: were they like us at all?(Art)(art exhibition)
The classical Greeks were really nothing like us--at least that now seems the prevailing dogma of classical scholars of the last half-century. Perhaps due to the rise of cultural anthropology or, more recently, to a variety of postmodern schools of social construction, it is now often accepted that the lives of Socrates, Euripides, and Pericles were not similar to our own, but so far different as to be almost unfathomable. Shelley's truism that "We are all Greeks" has now become, as we say, "inoperative."
M. I. Finley, the great historian of the ancient economy, spent a lifetime to prove his questionable thesis that the Greeks--who imported grain from southern ...
- Music in Ancient Greece and Rome & Apollo's Lyre: Greek Music and Music Theory...
- Magazine article from: Notes LEEDY, DOUGLAS March 1, 2001 700+ words
...and Musicians in Ancient Greece [Ithaca, N.Y...musical variety of Greek verse to reach the...naturally supple Greek rhythms fit into...reed pipes that the Greeks enjoyed in almost...music notation of ancient Greece. Simplified line...
- Just how sexy were the Greeks?(The Greeks and Greek Love: A Radical Reappraisal...
- Magazine article from: The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide Jope, James May 1, 2008 700+ words
The Greeks and Greek Love: A Radical...Homo-Sexuality in Ancient Greece by James Davidson...sterling]30. ANCIENT GREEK Homosexuality is...social values--the Greeks took their symposiums...celebrated aspect of Greek love, however embarrassing...
- OUR GIFTS FROM THE GREEKS.(architecture, literature, and other cultural...
- Magazine article from: Appleseeds Jordan, Ann December 1, 1999 700+ words
...word drama comes from the Greek word for "action." Greek writers wrote the first tragedies...sporting event. Messages in ancient Greece were carried by men who could...remember the gifts of the Greeks. The Greek word demos means "ordinary...
- Who's Who of Greek Gods.(the gods of ancient Greece)
- Magazine article from: Appleseeds Kowalski, Kathiann M. December 1, 1999 700+ words
...was the chief god. Greeks believed that Zeus ruled...archery, and medicine. Greeks thought that Apollo could...DITE-ee] was the Greek goddess of love and beauty...or land of the dead. Greeks told many stories about...more about the people of ancient Greece.
- The Greeks and Greek Love: A Radical Reappraisal of Homosexuality in Ancient...
- Magazine article from: Contemporary Review September 22, 2008 700+ words
The Greeks and Greek Love: A Radical Reappraisal of Homosexuality in Ancient Greece. James Davidson. Weidenfeld...same sex love meant to the Greeks (not just Athenians or...did 'to love' mean in Greek in different eras, different...
- It's Greek to me: more than one hundred different types of ceramic vessels were...
- Magazine article from: School Arts Vieth, Ken November 1, 2005 700+ words
...about the life and culture of ancient Greece. This inspired me to develop...vessels" reminiscent of ancient Greek vases, and decorate them with...showing examples of ancient Greek vessels and explaining that...wire armatures shaped like Greek vases. Use 18-gauge wire...
- Picturing ancient Greek childhood.(antique nursery equipment, "Coming of age in...
- Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques Neils, Jenifer Hart, Katherine W. October 1, 2003 700+ words
...only known well-preserved Greek high chair, or, given the...nursery equipment is rare from ancient Greece, but other objects, especially...activities, and education of Greek girls and boys as they came...feeders of this type made in Greek Sicily in the mid-fifth century...
- Meet the Philosophers of Ancient Greece: Everything You Always Wanted to Know...
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News August 1, 2005 700+ words
...Meet the philosophers of ancient Greece; everything you always wanted to know about ancient Greek philosophy but didn't...most prominent ancient Greek philosophers for students...philosophy and what the ancient Greeks mean today, they cover...
