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How an edgy Hamlet, premiering in Toronto, came to be
... as much of it as you like. The logic of it for me in this production is I wanted to make it more like a Greek or a Roman play. As I'm sure you know, Shakespeare's great influence was Seneca. So my starting point is, "What if Seneca were the ... Comment?
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The complete guide to Alsace-Lorraine
... square, Place Stanislas, has been declared a Unesco World Heritage Site. Metz's architecture is more varied, with Roman, medieval and German influences visible: the St Etienne cathedral is the main attraction. Strasbourg is larger than either of ... Comment?
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The City: Welcome to the Gates of Hell
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... we have the dispatches of our favorite cub social reporter to fill us in on everything we missed. It was another Roman bacchanal last night at neo-classical hotspot The Gates in Chelsea (is it still Chelsea if it's above 23rd Street?). Many managed ... Comment?
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Emerson Brooking | I came, I saw, I majored
... want to) replicate today. Yet at the heart of it all, then as now, lay the collective works of a few dozen Greek and Roman thinkers, writers, poets and pols. The field of Classical Studies may not encapsulate the whole of Western thought, but ... Comment?
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Big chamber sound ends BAC series
... one of our concerts ... the resonance that is left with them is quite powerful and transparent," the trio's cellist, Roman Borys, said in a telephone interview from Toronto before jetting off to performances in the U. S. Deep South. The ... Comment?
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Sotheby's London to Offer Rare Items From The Collection of the Duke of Bedford
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... the highest social standing in the brilliant court at Mantua - where one of Renaissance Italy's finest collections of Roman sculptures and Antiquities was to be found. His bronzes were remarkable for their extremely fine facture, meticulously cast ... Comment?
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Prof. Jinyu Liu Authors Collegia Centonariorum: The Guilds of Textile Dealers in the Roman West
November 18, 2009, Greencastle, Ind. - Jinyu Liu, assistant professor of classical studies at DePauw University, is the author of Collegia Centonariorum: The Guilds of Textile Dealers in the Roman West . Comment?
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Classical drug use: Greek and Roman drug freedom
The Greeks and Romans used opium, anticholinergics, and numerous botanical toxins to induce states of mental euphoria, create hallucinations, and alter their own consciousness; this is an indisputable fact. Comment?
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... each and every time. The practice of filling meaty cavities with edible surprises dates back to at least classical Roman times. Delicacies of this period included roast pigs packed with sausages and black pudding and geese brimming with bread, ... Comment?
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Downtown deco and nouveau
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... Church was the first to change when, around 1925, the old building was torn down to build the Present temple-form Neo-Roman church with a stone portico held up by stone Tucson columns. There are three additional Comment?
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A major new Roman site in mid Wales is discovered in Hidden Histories on BBC Two Wales on 17 November at 7.30pm. The Trawsgoed basin in Ceredigion could be a site that will rewrite Roman history. Comment?
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Purple Patch: The Age of Fable -Thomas Bulfinch
... nations in Gaul, Britain, and Germany. Our information respecting them is borrowed from notices in the Greek and Roman writers, compared with the remains of Welsh and Gaelic poetry still extant. The Druids combined the functions of the priest, the ... Comment?
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Garamantian agriculture and its significance in a wider North African ...
... nature of that agricultural regime. Traditionally the Garamantes have tended to be viewed from the perspective of the Roman Empire using the Classical sources. Recent archaeological survey and excavation in northern and southern Fazzan has led to a ... Comment?
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Real People: Roger Lane, music man for all seasons
... music appreciation course by teaching students the basics of reading music. He spends some time on ancient Greek and Roman music, then moves into the Middle Ages and Renaissance before reaching what many would consider the height of musical beauty ... Comment?
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Doctor Faustus is a renaissance man/hero.
... means rebirth. Here, it means rebirth of classical knowledge of Greece and Rome . What happened is that after the Roman Empire got destroyed, Europe fell into Dark Age and then, the Christian Church was the dominant force. There was no good ... Comment?
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... of the regrowth of a coppiced tree, a subject mentioned only two or three times in the vastly more extensive Greek and Roman literature: 'And there shall come forth a rod out of the stem of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots: and the ... Comment?
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Rich, meaty ragu is close to Italians' hearts
... style is made with ground meats, meat broth, tomatoes or tomato paste and a finishing touch of heavy cream or milk. Roman cooks sometimes add chicken giblets, while in parts of northern Italy's Veneto region, they make ragu with duck. In many ... Comment?
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Review: 'Metamorphoses' at SUNY New Paltz
... for most moderns, but myth once told the story that explained the gods, creation and human behavior. Thanks to the Roman poet Ovid, many ancient myths have been preserved, and Mary Zimmerman has retold some of them in her play "Metamorphoses," being ... Comment?
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Dominant Seventh Chords
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... in the V7I chord change, one of the most common chord progressions in Western music. If you're unfamiliar with this Roman-numeral system of identifying chords, don't worry - as you approach the next few examples, it's more important that you pay ... Comment?
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Great Works: Landscape with Ascanius Shooting the Stag of Sylvia (1682), Claude Lorrain
... Take this picture by Claude Lorrain. Landscape with Ascanius Shooting the Stag of Sylvia has its story drawn from Roman mythology. Even its title hints at tension. Landscape and figures are at odds. The humans are neither natives nor masters of the ... Comment?
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