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...indirect acceptance of what is past, as western Christianity accepted the Greek world. These cultures. then, enlarge their world of It not merely th... ... and man reQ.Overs 'from institutions. Here the spectrum of the emotions dances before the interested glance. Here a man's liking and hate and plea...

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...ber's "Homo Economicus" yielded to communism's supercilious version of the ancient Greeks' "Zoon Politikon". John of Salisbury might as well have b... ...uthanasia are, indeed, motivated by (some say: misplaced) mercy. Not so others. In Greek, "eu" means both "well" and "easy" and "Thanatos" is death... ...euthanasia are, indeed, motivated by (some say: misplaced) mercy. Not so others. In Greek, "eu" means both "well" and "easy" and "Thanatos" is deat... ...emotions, and cognitions - into a coherent bundle of identity. Dan speaks, drinks, dances, talks, and makes love - but throughout that time, he is ... ...and prejudice will rule this mock trial." AC: "Man is a political animal, said the Greek philosophers of antiquity. Where can you find an assembly... ...rivate case to general rule. In historiography we discuss "the Romans" or "ancient Greeks" and characterize them as a group. "Nazi Germany", "Commu...

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.............. 56 FRAGMENT OF THE ELEGY ON THE DEATH OF BION. .............................................................................. 58 FROM THE GREEK OF MOSCHUS. .................................................................................................................... 58 PAN, ECHO, AND THE SATYR .................................................................

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................................................................. 58 FROM THE GREEK OF MOSCHUS. ............................................................ ...ER O MER O MER O MER O MERCUR CUR CUR CUR CURY Y Y Y Y Translated from the Greek of Homer Published by Mrs. Shelley, “Posthumous Poems”, 1824. This al... ...—T 1.—T 1.—TO STELL O STELL O STELL O STELL O STELLA. A. A. A. A. From the Greek of Plato. Thou wert the morning star among the living, Ere thy fair l... ... HELENA. 2.—KISSING HELENA. 2.—KISSING HELENA. 2.—KISSING HELENA. From the Greek of Plato. Kissing Helena, together With my kiss, my soul beside it Ca... ... IRIT OF PL IRIT OF PL IRIT OF PLA A A A AT T T T TO. O. O. O. O. From the Greek. Eagle! why soarest thou above that tomb? To what sublime and star-yp... ...nything more tiresome Than a procession day, with troops, and priests, And dances, and all that. MOSCON: MOSCON: MOSCON: MOSCON: MOSCON: From first to... ... _325 Come, let us to it. We shall have rare fun. [FAUST DANCES AND SINGS WITH A GIRL, AND MEPHISTOPHELES WITH AN OLD WOMAN.] F F F ... ...t gleams upon the ivied bower, _15 It dances in the cascade’s spray. 245 Shelley 5. 5. 5. 5. 5. ‘Ah! why do dark...

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...In Sappho’s Journal, the author brings the famous Greek poet Sappho back to life in a finely crafted novel that reveals her sense of beauty, her loves, her reflections, her inner world. Based on a careful study of ancient Greece and Sappho’s surviving fragments of poetr...

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...SAPPHO’S JOURNAL: In Sappho’s Journal, the author brings the famous Greek poet Sappho back to life in a finely crafted novel that reveals her ... ... "A historical novel that recounts the life, thought, and times of the Greek poet Sappho of Lesbos, based on a study of ancient Greece and Sap... ...he most distant to the most recent they are: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci; Shakes- peare; and Abraham Lincoln. F... ...slator’s permission. The poems appeared in Sappho, Lyrics in the Original Greek, with translations by Willis Barnstone, Anchor Books, Doubleday, 196... ...os, his heavy drinking, then the darkness and torches, the wild games and dances higher up the mountain... “I shouldn’t have gone with him! I should... ... a birthday. It should have been a happy day. There were garlands, songs, dances... Then, someone came to me, brimming with the amusing story: Kleis... ...... Long are their ways of living, honey in their bread, and in their dances their footsteps twirl, twirling light... P Fragment of talk: “We ...

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...nd in his writings. And more than any other Platonic work the Sympo sium is Greek both in style and subject, having a beauty ‘as of a statue,’ while ... ... his Dialogues, Plato is emancipated from former philosophies. The genius of Greek art seems to triumph over the traditions of Pythagorean, Eleatic, o... ...remarks that personal attachments are inimical to despots. The experience of Greek history con firms the truth of his remark. When Aristophanes decla... ...ed of his own free will,’ he is al luding playfully to a serious problem of Greek 17 Plato s Symposium philosophy (compare Arist. Nic. Ethics). So n... ...e are many) that the so called mysticism of the East was not strange to the Greek of the fifth century before Christ. The first tumult of the affecti... ...es them to meet together at banquets such as these: in sac rifices, feasts, dances, he is our lord—who sends 64 Plato s Symposium courtesy and sends...

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...aid; lives on a pound a week; and walks in one evening with a professor of Greek whom she has picked up in the street, and who pretends to be a Salvat... ...ns will make a very good husband. After all, nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentleman. 6 GB Shaw And my ... ... [turning with ominous suavity to Cusins] Adolphus: you are a professor of Greek. Can you translate Charles Lomax’s remarks into reputable English for... ...sure you. You look all right, you know. CUSINS. Let me advise you to study Greek, Mr Undershaft. Greek scholars are privileged men. Few of them know G... ...her languages are the qualifications of waiters and commercial travellers: Greek is to a man of posi- tion what the hallmark is to silver. BARBARA. Do... .... Fust: I’m intelligent—fffff! it’s 25 Major Barbara rotten cold here [he dances a step or two]—yes: intelligent be- yond the station o life into whi...

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...mself into it with enthusiasm, and Latin antiquity was not enough for him. Greek, a study discountenanced by the Church, which looked on it as dangero... ...riendship of Pierre Amy and of the celebrated Guillaume Bude. In fact, the Greek letters of the latter are the best source of information concerning t... ... from his ancestor Esormon, Prince of Achaia, 2139 B.C., who was surnamed (Greek), that is to say the Fortunate and the Well-beloved. A Gascon could n... ...kind of gloss of antique novelty to his work. He fabricated words, too, on Greek and Latin models, with great ease, sometimes audaciously and with nee... ...ucian, his intimate acquaintance with nearly all the writers of antiquity, Greek as well as Latin, with whom Rabelais is more permeated even than Mont... ...is very day by your hop-merchants of Brittany, in their paspie and country dances. What do you think was the cause of Erichthonius’s being the first i... ...rminalia. 13. Floralia. 14. Pyrrhice. 15. (Nicatism.) And a thousand other dances. (Motteux has the following footnote:—’1. A sort of coun- try-dance.... ... golden king remained master of the field; and while we were minding those dances, Queen Whims vanished, so that we saw her no more from that day to t... ...fell as so many tigers, naked, and perpetually singing and dancing country-dances. They were called tityri and satyrs, and were in all eighty-five tho...

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...us much may give us light after what sort of books were prohibited among the Greeks. Areopagitica Milton 8 The Romans also, for many ages trained ... ...l the learning of the Egyp Areopagitica Milton 13 tians, Chaldeans, and Greeks, which could not probably be without reading their books of all so... ...hought it no defilement to insert into Holy Scripture the sentences of three Greek poets, and one of them a tragedian; the question was notwith stand... ...imrose season. And first behold this cordial julep here, 76 That flames and dances in his crystal bounds, With spirits of balm and fragrant syrups mi... ...ise, To triumph in victorious dance O’er sensual folly and intemperance. The dances ended, the SPIRIT epiloguizes. SPIR. To the ocean now I fly, And t...

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...e beginning was the Word. In the beginning was the Word. Superfetation of [Greek text inserted here], And at the mensual turn of time Produced enervat... ...tle schools Are controversial, polymath. Sweeney Among the Nightingales [Greek text inserted here] Apeneck Sweeney spreads his knees Letting his arm... ...ing page. Particularly I remark An English countess goes upon the stage. A Greek was murdered at a Polish dance, Another bank defaulter has confessed.... ...Over the cow-pasture. Miss Nancy Ellicott smoked And danced all the modern dances; And her aunts were not quite sure how they felt about it, But they ...

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...keeping his vow, to do worse. And thou mayest find the great leader of the Greeks in like manner foolish; where- fore Iphigenia wept for her fair face... ...pproved the Rule of St. Francis. 22 “The head of the fold:” a term of the Greek Church, designating the head of one or more monasteries. 23 In 1223,... ... Whether Dante forms this word from the Hebrew Eli (my God), or adopts the Greek {Greek here} (sun), is uncertain. Even as, marked out by less and gre... ...od intention which bore bad fruit, by ceding to the Pastor 8 made himself Greek, to- gether with the laws and me. Now he knows how the ill derived fr... ...rring the seat of empire to Constantinople, he made the laws and the eagle Greek. 9 William H., son of Robert Guiscard, King of Sicily and Apulia, ca... ...en the Virtues; the third order is of Powers. Then, in the two penultimate dances, the Principalities and Archangels circle; the last is wholly of Ang...

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...the highest point to which ancient thinkers ever attained. Plato among the Greeks, like Bacon among the moderns, was the first who conceived a method ... ...as been en thusiastically asserted, and is perhaps gaining ground. Of the Greek authors who at the Renaissance brought a new life into the world Plat... ...s of human society. The one is the soul and the other is the body, and the Greek ideal of the State, as of the individual, is a fair mind in a fair bo... ... only convey, to us at least, their great spiritual ideals, so through the Greek State Plato reveals to us his own thoughts about divine perfection, ... ...olerable portion of exist ence is characteristic, not only of him, but of Greek feeling generally, and contrasts with the exaggeration of Cicero in t... ...education: Where would be the use of going into further details about the dances of our citizens, or about their hunting and cours ing, their gymna...

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...at which thou wishest; for they might disdain Perchance, since they were Greeks, discourse of thine.” When now the flame had come unto that point, ... ...e. One the false woman is who accused Joseph, The other the false Sinon, Greek of T roy; From acute fever they send forth such reek.” And one of t... ...ows it.” “Rueful to thee the thirst be wherewith cracks Thy tongue,” the Greek said, “and the putrid water That hedges so thy paunch before thine ... ...y his mother Carried him sleeping in her arms to Scyros, Wherefrom the Greeks withdrew him afterwards, 160 Longfellow Than I upstarted, when from... ...upright customs Made me disparage all the other sects. And ere I led the Greeks unto the rivers Of Thebes, in poetry, I was baptized, But out of... ... next; And the third order is that of the Powers. 359 Dante Then in the dances twain penultimate The Principalities and Archangels wheel; The l...

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... from object to object, and rested upon none—neither the grotesques of the Greek painters, nor the sculptures of the best Italian days, nor the huge c... ... my arm as he sauntered around the apartment, “here are paintings from the Greeks to Cimabue, and from Cimabue to the present hour. Many are chosen, a... ...1 V olume Two And where thy footstep gleams, In what ethereal dances, By what Italian streams. Alas! for that accursed time... ...another was a “car- nival piece,” spirited beyond compare; the third was a Greek female head—a face so divinely beautiful, and yet of an ex- pression ...

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...chool made only the thinnest pre- tence of teaching anything but Latin and Greek. When I went there as a very small boy I knew a good deal of Latin gr... ...t seen a Latin inscription on a tomb that I could translate throughout. Of Greek I can decipher perhaps the greater part of the Greek alphabet. In sho... ... Cae- sar meant only being set at Virgil, with the culminating hor- ror of Greek and Homer in reserve at the end of that. I pre- ferred Caesar, becaus... ...necessary ends. It is a monstrous thing to force a child to learn Latin or Greek or mathematics on the ground that they are an indis- pensable gymnast... ...true, it need not trouble us. But it is a fact that ignorance of Latin and Greek and mathematics closes certain careers to men (I do not mean artifici... ...l life, by out-of-door habits, and by frank neighborly intercourse through dances and concerts and the- atricals and excursions and the like, families...

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... must be stepping itself still. Isn’t there any heaven where old beautiful dances, old beautiful intimacies prolong themselves? Isn’t there any Nirvan... ...oom as fresh as Venus rising from any of the couches that are mentioned in Greek legends. Her room door was locked because she was nervous about thiev... ...sandwiched in at odd moments or took place during the social evenings, the dances and dinners. But I guess I have made it hard for you, O silent liste... ...imself fit and the other because it was a social duty to show him- self at dances, and, when there, to dance well. He did nothing for fun except what ... ...e understood—and Leonora went up to bed early. She did not care for public dances, but she was relieved to see that Edward appeared to be having a goo... ...rld stood on its head; the palms in front of the blue sea danced grotesque dances. You see, he believed in the virtue, tenderness and moral support of... ... and reclining amidst dark- ness, upon cold rocks, like one of the ancient Greek damned, in Tartarus or wherever it was. 160 The Good Soldier And as ...

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...rown of his struggling life, an unjust close! “Seems it so light a thing, then, austere Powers, To spurn man’s common lure, life’s pleasant things? ... ...es, not in ruth, T o curse and to deny your truth; Not as their friend, or child, I speak! But as, on some far northern strand, Thinki...

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...tters: Thomas Linacre, physician to King Henry VIII., a man learned in the Greek and Latin languages, and particularly skilful in physick, by which he... ...ord Russell, son of the Earl of Bedford, whose lady composed the following Greek and Latin verses, and had them engraved on the marble:- How was I sta... ...wing things worthy of observation:- I. The Royal Library, well stored with Greek, Latin, Italian and French books; amongst the rest, a little one in F... ...numerous audiences; these are concluded with excellent mu- sic, variety of dances, and the excessive applause of those that are present. Not far from ... ...asons, in English, French, and Italian; for, besides being well skilled in Greek, Latin, and the languages I have mentioned, she is mistress of Spanis...

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...and barbarous nations, when 55 John Locke we remember that it was a familiar and uncondemned practice amongst the Greeks and Romans to expose, with- ... ...everal modes of thinking. And we may as properly say that it is the singing faculty sings, and the dancing faculty dances, as that the will chooses, o... ...aily conversation; and so they become so many distinct complex ideas in their minds. Thus ostrhakismos amongst the Greeks, and proscriptio amongst the... ...ctions: v.g. boldness is the power to speak or do what we intend, before others, without fear or disorder; and the Greeks call the confidence of speak... ...arnt. The idea of this remarkable piece of household stuff had so mixed itself with the turns and steps of all his dances, that though in that chamber... ... them, must unavoidably be of great uncertainty to men of the same language and country. This is so evident in the Greek authors, that he that shall p... ...that which his scarlet would blush at, to have his au- thority of forty years, standing, wrought out of hard rock, Greek and Latin, with no small expe...

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...will succeed! Poor Ned and I are dead to all intents; We can as soon speak Greek as sentiments! Both ner- vous grown, to keep our spirits up. We now a... ...an may be a gentleman for all that. May this be my poison, if my bear ever dances but to the very genteelest of tunes; “Water Parted,” or “The minuet ...

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... God although sunk in su perstition and held down by the despotism of the Greek Leo Tolstoy 6 Church. It was the cumbrous ritual and dogma of the or... ...rines which we have re ceived from Egyptian, Jewish, Hindoo, Chinese, and Greek antiquity. The two great principles of Jesus: love of God – in a word... ...ve Thyself. ’ And a superscription also was written over Him in letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew, ‘This is the King of the Jews.’ And one of th... ...h my brother, who has since died. He disliked going out, and never went to dances; and besides, he was busy preparing for his last univer sity examin...

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...vichord that ecossaise (his only piece) to which, as he said, all possible dances could be danced, and they felt sure he had brought presents for them... ...d the masses. Instead of the former divinely appointed aims of the Jewish, Greek, or Roman nations, which ancient historians regarded as representing ...

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...idn’ t say a word to her for five months. I used to see her in a corner at dances (we were always having dances), her eyes watching me. I saw how they... ...district. He kept open house, entertained the whole town, gave suppers and dances. At the time I arrived and joined the battalion, all the town was ta... ...der the Tatars. There is, for instance, one such poem (of course, from the Greek), The Wanderings of Our Lady through Hell, with descriptions as bold ... ... ladies … when they danced the ma- zurka with our Uhlans… when one of them dances a ma- zurka with a Uhlan she jumps on his knee like a kitten… a litt... ...s the drinking went on, gradually became coarse and more reckless. And the dances were as bad. Two girls dressed up as bears, and a lively girl, calle... ...nce the “sabotiere.” “They taught me all those well-bred, aristocratic dances when I was little…” “Go, go with him, Mitya, and I’ll watch from... ...o our schools.” By degrees Kolya began to get breathless again. “Latin and Greek were introduced because they are a bore and because they stupefy the ... ...ore, so what could they do to make it more sense- less? So they thought of Greek and Latin. That’s my opinion, I hope I shall never change it,” Kolya ...

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...ining beneath arbours in the arms of Bayaderes; Djiaours, T urkish sabres, Greek caps; and you especially , pale 35 Flaubert landscapes of dithyrambi... ...wn hall, constructed “from the designs of a Paris architect,” is a sort of Greek temple that forms the corner next to the chemist’s shop. On the groun... ...de, on the gauze of which were painted clowns in carriages, and tight-rope dances with their balancing-poles. Leon stopped, pointing with a gesture to...

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...istorical fiction, allowing the reader to enter for the first time into the private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci; Shakespeare; and Abraham Lincoln. Each novel appears here in its entirety within a single unique volume of 644 pages beautifully illustrated by the author-artist....

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...e private worlds of five remarkable people: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci; Shakespeare; and Abraham Lincoln. E... ...ction of five historical novels written in the form of journals by the Greek poet Sappho of Lesbos, Christ, Leonardo da Vinci, Shakespeare, an... ...e most distant to the most recent they are: Sappho of Lesbos, the famous Greek poet; Jesus; Leonardo da Vinci; Shakespeare; and Abraham Lincoln. Fo... ...slator’s permission. The poems appeared in Sappho, Lyrics in the Original Greek, with translations by Willis Barnstone, Anchor Books, Doubleday, 196... ...os, his heavy drinking, then the darkness and torches, the wild games and dances higher up the mountain... “I shouldn’t have gone with him! I should... ... a birthday. It should have been a happy day. There were garlands, songs, dances... Then, someone came to me, brimming with the amusing story: Kleis... ...... Long are their ways of living, honey in their bread, and in their dances their footsteps twirl, twirling light... P Fragment of talk: “We ... ...He understood my rebellion, the rankling perturbations of my life. “I’m a Greek,” he said. “I realize your alienation. I’m new here. I have much to ... ...ng—there was something to keep us spellbound spelling laughter! Games and dances went on at all hours. Cinquepace was the fast, new step. How I liked...

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...Smyrnaeus (“Quintus of Smyrna”) Fl. 4th Century A.D. Originally written in Greek, sometime about the middle of the 4 th Century A.D. Translation b... ... T roy” (Loeb Classics #19; Harvard University Press, Cambridge MA, 1913). Greek text with side by side English translation. INTRODUCTION Homer’s ... ...te: but, whatever theory we adopt, it must be based on mere conjecture. The Greek text here given is that of Koechly (1850) with many of Zimmermann’s... ...d Fates Thrusting her on into the battle, doomed To be her first against the Greeks — and last! To right, to left, with unreturning feet The T rojan t... ... who still was holding back These from the battle tumult far away, Till many Greeks should fill the measure up Of woeful havoc, slain by T rojan foes ... ...ld of toil was there portrayed. And there a banquet was, with pipe and harp, Dances of maids, and flashing feet of boys, All in swift movement, like t...

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...befell. The Aeneid Virgil 29 “By destiny compell’d, and in despair, The Greeks grew weary of the tedious war, And by Minerva’s aid a fabric rear’d,... ...lly stood. The sides, transpierc’d, return a rattling sound, And groans of Greeks inclos’d come issuing thro’ the wound And, had not Heav’n the fall o... ... empire stood. Meantime, with shouts, the Trojan shepherds bring A captive Greek, in bands, before the king; Taken to take; who made himself their pre... ...ans flow; All press to see, and some insult the foe. Now hear how well the Greeks their wiles disguis’d; Behold a nation in a man compris’d. Trembling... ...rimes, Because these fatal wars he would prevent; Whose death the wretched Greeks too late lament Me, then a boy, my father, poor and bare Of other m... ..., The Aeneid Virgil 84 When to his native Delos he resorts, Ordains the dances, and renews the sports; Where painted Scythians, mix’d with Cretan b... ...e feign’d nocturnal orgies; left my bed, And, mix’d with Trojan dames, the dances led Then, waving high her torch, the signal made, Which rous’d the G... ...ith their fear, In woods and wilds the flags of Bacchus bear, And lead his dances with dishevel’d hair, Increase the clamor, and the war demand, (Such... ...s are bound. She shakes her myrtle jav’lin; and, behind, Her Lycian quiver dances in the wind. BOOK VIII When Turnus had assembled all his pow’rs, His...

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...onourably and virtuously instructed to fondle and ca- ress men; are taught dances of a very polite and effeminate kind; and how to heighten by the mos... ... arts were invented by uncultivated, savage men. What a prodigious use the Greeks and Romans made after- wards of mechanics! Nevertheless, they believ... ...nd three hundred and forty years from Menes’s reign to that of Sethon. The Greeks before they counted by Olympiads followed the method of the Egyptian... ... forty years. 68 Letters on England Now, here, both the Egyptians and the Greeks made an erroneous computation. It is true, indeed, that, according t... ...n that we say that the sun turns round. Hipparchus was the first among the Greeks who observed some change in the constellations with regard to the eq... ...which make five hundred and four years, and not seven hundred years as the Greeks computed. Thus in comparing the position of the heav- ens at this ti...

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...was very well qualified to have translated Homer, barring his ignorance of Greek. But every page of his writings proves a wide and diversified knowled... ...er, each doing his best to render Homer, but none of them is the grand old Greek, whose lines are all simple and plain as brands, but like brands poin... ...s to Art. Oh! when shall Britain, conscious of her claim, Stand emulous of Greek and Roman fame? In living medals see her wars enroll’d, And vanquish’... ...rsue: 460 Their pigmy king, and little fairy queen, In circling dances gamboll’d on the green, While tuneful sprites a merry concert made, ... ...nsward bound, That scarce they bent the flowers or touch’d the ground. The dances ended, all the fairy train For pinks and daisies search’d the flower... ...lusty lover lures, Or else her wit some fool-gallant procures, Or else she dances with becoming grace, Or shape excuses the defects of face. There swi... ...ton and wild, and chatter’d like a pie. 210 In country-dances still I bore the bell, And sung as sweet as evening Philomel. To cle... ...bours of those who have improved our language with the translations of old Greek and Latin authors.—We have already most of their histori- ans in our ... ...had, namely, that of epic poem; with a title also framed after the ancient Greek manner, to wit, that of Dunciad. Wonderful it is that so few of the m...

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...d mind were always pleasures, and babies, like tough steaks, or the modern Greek olive trees, are invari- ably the better for beating—but, poor woman!... ...isagreed with the Chinese, who held that the soul lies in the abdomen. The Greeks at all events were right, he thought, who employed the same words fo... ...in pure good humor, on a fork. But they want flavor, these Romans. One fat Greek is worth a dozen of them, and besides will keep, which cannot be said... ...nd his merry bosom swells With the pæan of the bells! And he dances, and he yells; Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic ... ...ery few poets in the language. While the clas- sic tongues, especially the Greek, possess, by power of ac- cent, several advantages for versification ... ...e thy dark eye glances, And where thy footstep gleams — In what ethereal dances, By what eternal streams. 1835. THE COLISEUM Type of the antique R... ...igilance keep— The sound of the rain Which leaps down to the flower, And dances again In the rhythm of the shower— The murmur that springs† From... ...o’ it perish With a thought I then did cherish. 1827. Translation from the Greek HYMN TO ARISTOGE1TON AND HARMODIUS I Wreathed in myrtle, my swo...

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...occur:— “How can one praise and glorify a nation as a whole?— Even among the Greeks, it was the individuals that counted.” “The Greeks are interesting... ...he relations of a people to the rearing of the individual man, and among the Greeks the con- ditions were unusually favourable for the development of ... ...ristianity, whereby the whole of the deified mode of life and thought of the Greeks, as well as strong Romedom, was almost annihilated or transvalued ... ...o one shall thy jealous soul love, except a friend”— that made the soul of a Greek thrill: thereby went he his way to greatness. “To speak truth, and ... ...e spirit of gravity. How could I, ye light-footed ones, be hostile to divine dances? Or to maidens’ feet with fine ankles? To be sure, I am a forest, ... ...h, and of the heavenly necessity which compelleth even chances to dance star-dances: If ever I have laughed with the laughter of the creative lightnin... ...e means to power. Needless to say that verses 9, 10, 11, and 12 refer to the Greeks, the Persians, the Jews, and the Germans respectively. In the penu...

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... evil on the mountains, and is therefore termed, “The Thunderer,” like the Greek Zeus, and his abode is called, “The Thunder Home.” Ukko is often repr... ...n our youth learned to call beautiful, not less beautiful. A Finn is not a Greek, and Wainamoinen was not a Homer [Achilles?]; but if the poet may tak... ... “darksome Laplanders”, just as the Iliad relates the contests between the Greeks and the Trojans. Castren is of the opinion that the enmity be tween... ... an infant; often too the unexpected is introduced after the manner of the Greek dramas, by a young child, or an old man. The whole poem is replete wi... ...Staying days and nights in sequences At the homes of merry maidens, At the dances of the virgins, With the maids of braided tresses. Up in Sahri lived... ...ace befitting On the Sahri plains and pastures, Where to join in songs and dances? Is there here a hall for pleasure, Where the Sahri maidens linger, ... ... there in Sahri, Room upon the Sahri pastures, Room for pleasure halls and dances; Sing and dance upon our meadows, Be a shepherd on the mountains, Sh... ...tures, In the evening, making merry At the games of lively maidens, At the dances with the virgins, With the maids with braided tresses. 117 The Kale... ...ry voices, Never will they tread these uplands, Never will they join these dances, Never will they drive these highways.” Sad the wailing of Kyllikki,...

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...e Jews, instead of being stationary like other Asiatics, were, next to the Greeks, the most progressive people of antiquity, and, jointly with them, h... ...ith the cotemporary subjects of monarchical or oligarchical despotism: the Greek cities with the Persian satrapies; the Italian republics and the free... ...r doubtless thinks himself not only blameless, but meritorious, if the man dances well. Besides, the qualifica tions which fit special individuals fo... ...t, is able to overcome the greater, as the Macedonians, re enforced by the Greeks, did Asia, and the English India, there is often a gain to civilizat...

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...among us, the shock was not the less appalling because a few stu- dents of Greek history were not surprised by it. Indeed these students threw themsel... ...ttings, found himself, to his own astonishment, thirsting for silly jokes, dances, and brainlessly sensuous exhibitions of pretty girls. The au- thor ...

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...Twenty three Tales by Tolstoy : “Two Old Men” 102 of other nationalities: Greeks, Armenians, Turks, and Syrians. Efím entered the Holy Gates with the... ...hunt he again feasted with his friends, and was entertained with music and dances, and the night he spent with the wife whom he loved. So, dividing hi...

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...ar fellow. Y ou see it’s hurrah for the Tsar, for Russia, for the Orthodox Greek faith! All that is beautiful, but what do we, I mean the Austrian cou... ... suitors there and were married and so further increased the fame of these dances. What distinguished them from others was the absence of host or host... ...!” said Denisov. “Who?” “Countess Natasha,” answered Denisov. “And how she dances! What gwace!” he said again after a pause. “Who are you talking abou... ...er there at the ball, in those brightly lighted rooms—with music, flowers, dances, the Em- 257 Tolstoy peror, and all the brilliant young people of P... ... some- body. But Herr Dimmler—isn’t he good! I didn’t know him! And how he dances. Dear me, there’s a Circassian. Really, how becoming it is to dear S... ...aughter. “My little Sasha! Look at Sasha!” she said. After Russian country dances and chorus dances, Pelageya Danilovna made the serfs and gentry join... ...e masses. In- stead of the former divinely appointed aims of the Jew- ish, Greek, or Roman nations, which ancient historians regarded as representing ...