DRAMA >.a composition in prose or verse presenting in dialogue or pantomime a story involving conflict or contrast of character‚ especially one intended to be acted on the stage; a play. >.the branch of literature having such compositions as its subject; dramatic art or representation. >.the art dealing with the writing and production of plays. >.any situation or series of events having vivid‚ emotional‚ conflicting‚ or striking interest or results: the drama of a murder trial . 1. a
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Sappho enjoyed immense popularity for the sheer beauty of her language and the directness and power of her expression”(pg.7). Snyder again states “Sappho’s was chiefly know her for her skill as a poets”(pg.9) and was imitated by younger writers like Catullus and Horace. A scandal had arisen about Sappho’s apparently being a love-crazy female fornicator. Since it was a Christian era people began looking closely in her work and background and assume she is a homosexual from meaning in her work.
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Sappho 620 BCE–550 BCE Little is known with certainty about the life of Sappho‚ or Psappha in her native Aeolic dialect. She was born probably about 620 B.C. to an aristocratic family on the island of Lesbos during a great cultural flowering in the area. Apparently her birthplace was either Eressos or Mytilene‚ the main city on the island‚ where she seems to have lived for some time. Even the names of her family members are inconsistently reported‚ but she does seem to have had several brothers
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Anonymous March 19‚ 2013 Mr. -------‚ Mr. ------- Grand Tour Temple of Saturn The Temple of Saturn was one of the most important structures in Roman society‚ because it signified all of their major values as a whole‚ in one place‚ and today the Temple stands in ruins‚ at the foot of Capitoline Hill‚ on the Western side of the Forum Romanum. The origin of the Temple of Saturn is hard to determine‚ since the only records we have are the reconstructions of the Temple‚ and not the date or period
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TO LITERARY HERITAGE 9 2.1 Classical epithalamic tradition: Greek and Roman epithalamia 10 2.1.1 Sapphic epithalamium: the model of epithalamic convention 10 2.1.2 The blending of Greek epithalamic motifs and Roman wedding tradition: Catullus 61‚ 62 and 64 11 2.1.3 Rhetorical Latin epithalamium: the continuation of traditional motifs in a different form 13 2.2 The Medieval epithalamium: wedding songs in the light of sanctity 14 2.3 Renaissance epithalamium 15 2.3.1 Neo-Latin
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Copyright by Rebecca Anne Macmillan 2013 The Report Committee for Rebecca Anne Macmillan Certifies that this is the approved version of the following report: The Languages of Nox: Photographs‚ Materiality‚ and Translation in Anne Carson’s Epitaph APPROVED BY SUPERVISING COMMITTEE: Supervisor: Ann Cvetkovich Coleman Hutchison The Languages of Nox: Photographs‚ Materiality‚ and Translation in Anne Carson’s Epitaph by Rebecca Anne Macmillan‚ A.B. Report Presented to
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Classical Mechanics Problems David J. Jeffery Physics Department New Mexico Tech Socorro‚ New Mexico ♠ ♠ ♠ ♠ ♠ ♠ ♠ ♠ ♠ ♠ Portpentagram Publishing (self-published) 2001 January 1 Introduction Classical Mechanics Problems (CMP) is a source book for instructors of advanced classical mechanics at the Goldstein level. The book is available in electronic form to instructors by request to the author. It is free courseware and can be freely used and distributed‚ but not used
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Chapter One Origins and Antiquity: Myths‚ Legends‚ and Epics The geographical origins of Western literature lie in areas as diverse as the Middle East‚ the Mediterranean‚ the central European forests‚ and the northwestern coasts‚ each of which produced a body of oral histories‚ myths‚ and legends‚ many of which were subsequently written down. They have been drawn on by writers since the emergence of a Western literature culture in ancient Greece. Stories have been used as entertainment‚ as origin
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Sexuality‚ Love‚ and Power in Ancient Rome In Ancient Rome‚ there were certain periods of time where sexuality itself was not embraced very fondly because of the influences of multiple factors such as the Etruscan culture. Fantham herself explains this in chapter ten how although Rome became increasingly Hellenized during the last century of the Republic‚ it was still a land where individuals did not believe entirely in sexual pleasure and the concept of love. They believed that sex was a function
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The Life of Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) by Josh Palmer October 18‚ 2012 History 101 Tiziano Vecellio was born at Pieve di Cadore in the Alps north of Venice around 1490 A.D. He became known in english as Titian. At the age of ten Titian’s father sent him and his brother Francesco to Venice where they were to study painting at Sebastiano Zuccato’s workshop. After a short time at Sebastiano Zuccato’s workshop Titian decided to leave‚ while his brother stayed at the workshop to study painting
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