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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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...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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...ocean. It is first mentioned in the dialogs Timaeus and Critias written by the Greek philosopher Plato (428-347 BC). An Egyptian priest was sup... ...er Plato (428-347 BC). An Egyptian priest was supposed to have described it to the Greek statesman Solon (638-559 BC). The priest insisted that A... ...re written by St. Paul. The Bible contains words in Hebrew, Aramaic and Koine Greek. The Bible is the bestseller of all times. More than 5... ...tus' dance". Other sources say that the blasphemous frolickers drowned. Manic dances - sometimes in the form of ecstatic but structured ritual... ... http://www.travelchinaguide.com/china_great_wall/ http://www.walkthewall.com/ Greek Philosophers There were so many ancient Greek thinkers t... ...y bit of modern knowledge, fact, pseudo-science and counterfact are represented. Greek mathematician Pythagoras (582-500 BC) postulated that eart...

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... move from the peoples of ancient eras, such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, on to those of the French, Germans, English, and event... ...duce learned songs. The honeybee finds food, heads back to the hive, then dances on the wall in circles or straight lines to point others to where i... ...c skills that bloomed in ancient times. Take, for instance, the legendary Greek lyric poet Simonides of Ceos, credited with having invented the mnem... ...n today as Israel, Lebanon, Syria, and the Palestinian Territories. The Greeks named them ―phonics‖ (the purple people) in recognition of the prec... ...were missing The Phoenician‘s twenty-two signs caused ambiguities, so the Greeks converted vowel-related signs from Hebrew and other Semitic systems... ... from Hebrew and other Semitic systems to create the vowels that made the Greek alphabet the most accurate and unambiguous phonetic system known to m...

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...lical quotations in this book are translations of the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek texts by the author, as also are quotations from Plato. TABLE OF CON... ...53 onwards. THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSION vi close friend through my studies of Greek. Might Jung, with his statements about the hopelessness of ever achie... ...e scanty, understanding of the nature of human life. Translations from the Greek and Hebrew are my own, except in a few instances specifically noted i... ...+ Palestinian + Arab + Mesopotamian Cultures Hebrew Hebrew + Zoroastrian + Greek + Gnostic Judaism Christian Christian + Arab Christianity Islam Figur... ...o the work of an individual, Zarathustra, about 600 BC, often known by the Greek spelling of his name as Zoroaster. Zoroaster’s religious system swept... ...ly I found I was also dancing. We formed into two lines, as in some square dances, and I found myself at the head of one of the lines. As we danced th... ...couples who were not married to each other, or several dozen other feasts, dances, or rites involving participation by the community. Some prophetic d...

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... with which they made voyages to adjacent lands. They soon became known to the Greeks, whose country they visited, and by these were given the name Ph... ..., and by these were given the name Phoenicians, a designation derived from the Greek word for palms, great numbers of which grow in the Holy Land. BU... ...e earliest navigators, there are other peoples who lay claim to the honor, the Greeks, the Egyptians, the Indians, each asserting that they were the e... ...etuated in the history of his country. VOYAGE OF PYTHEAS, THE PHILOSOPHER. The Greeks became active in discovery and an extension of their commerce by... ...celand in about the year 860, though it is maintained by some writers that the Greek philosopher, Pytheas, first set foot in Iceland, which he called ... ...oor Jack of approaching peril; on another, she lays aside her fishy scales and dances on the beach, while the wily peasant, unheedful of his peril, wa... ...d wrestling matches between the best athletes of the district, and of singular dances which were performed by the men alone. After these were conclude... ...ch, if it were possible, would more explicitly convey the same ideas. In these dances they keep time with an exactness which is scarcely excelled by t... ...s joyously welcomed and a reception was tendered him by the King at which some dances were performed and what appeared to be a drama enacted for his a...

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... one day he would connect the right stars and see the pathway as clearly as the Greeks had seen Orion, the Hunter, Taurus, the Bull, Aquarius, the W... ...r and showed him into the foyer that was formed in the shape of a rotunda. Huge Greek and Roman stat­ ues were perched in predesigned recesses around... ...i­ dent of International Enterprises." Pierce stood stiff like one of Matloch's Greek statues. An ap­ propriate formation Richard thought, his right ... ...ded them back. "I can't read Johnathan Cross this medical print-out. It's all Greek to me." "Right answer." Greene tossed the papers into a half-f... ...the Secretary with a few facts mixed with a little fic- tion, and let's see ifhe dances." "And ifhe doesn't?" "Then shoot me with Lincoln's gun." "... ...ill ask the Ancients for forgiveness for the pride I feel, and for the joy that dances in my heart for the coming battle. My destiny is at hand, and... ... rock bands, celebrities, politicians, and tribes of Indians doing traditional dances would entertain a planet. "It's quite a sight," Brent said to...

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... have round turrets like knights' castles, Spanish patios, arched windows, Greek columns and statues from Antiquity. The era of mixed-style buildings ... ...d 1985), the sword was a particular rite object. The women performed sword dances holding a sword in each hand; the dance was said to be an old tradit... ...grarian culture thirty years ago. Lampang celebrations, their processions, dances and ceremonies contain something unrelenting, with local people defi... ...rality has become a dual morality for men. New western forms of courting (dances, etc.) have not yet reached the villages, but boys may visit girls a... ...nd laid most store on western pop and films. They had also learnt western dances (30:59), the boys in the towns grow their hair long and the girls w...

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... move from the peoples of ancient eras, such as the Sumerians, Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans, on to those of the French, Germans, English, and event... ...duce learned songs. The honeybee finds food, heads back to the hive, then dances on the wall in circles or straight lines to point others to where i... ...c skills that bloomed in ancient times. Take, for instance, the legendary Greek lyric poet Simonides of Ceos, credited with having invented the mnem... ...today as Israel, Lebanon, Syria, and the Palestinian Territories. The Greeks named them ―phonics‖ (the purple people) in recognition of the prec... ...re missing The Phoenician‘s twenty-two signs caused ambiguities, so the Greeks converted vowel-related signs from Hebrew and other Semitic systems... ... from Hebrew and other Semitic systems to create the vowels that made the Greek alphabet the most accurate and unambiguous phonetic system known to m...

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...H for Planck’s Constant, multiplied by its frequency, represented by the Greek letter NU, so that HNU describes “the energy of light.” A unit of p... ...lously trained hula troupes, called hālau hula, performing ancient-style dances. The fnal night is given over to hālau hula performing in the mode...

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... the ammunition, till two men came along driving four mules. Dravot up and dances in front of them, singing, ‘Sell me four mules.’ Says the first man,... ...r of the British Museum. All I demanded, as politely as possible, was “the Greek antiquity man.” The policeman knew nothing except the rules of the Mu... ...he. “So far as I can ascertain it is an attempt to write extremely corrupt Greek on the part” —here he glared at me with intention— “of an extremely i... ...e the most marvel- ous tale in the world, nothing less than the story of a Greek galley-slave, as told by himself. Small wonder that his dream- ing ha... ...rstand metempsychosis, and a sound commer- cial education does not include Greek. He would supply m~here I capered among the dumb gods of Egypt and la... ... Charlie had spoken nothing that might not lie within the experiences of a Greek galley-slave. But now, or there was no virtue in books, he had talked...

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... as at this, used each to make a language for himself, besides the strange Greek, Latin, Italian, German, and Swiss words, foreign phrases, and Spanis... ...ished to arrange with you a merry feast after the ancient method, when the Greeks and Romans said their Pater noster to Master Pria- pus, and the lear... ...eror Ahasuerus, as is written in the master-book, for Bible comes from the Greek word biblos, as if to say the only book. The mouse promised to delive... ...oth of Gold. In every corner mice were making merry. Everywhere there were dances, concerts, ban- quets, sarabands, music, joyous songs, and epithalam... ...ising all languages since the Deluge, of the Hebrew, Chaldeans, Egyptians, Greeks, Latins, and of T urnus, the ancient founder of T ours; and the good... ... hear her chattering as en- tertainment many foreign dialects, such as the Greek or the Latin empire, Moorish, and, above all, French better than any ...

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...een grapes, and produce 51 Thomas Carlyle colic, pestilential dysentery, (Greek). And the Peasants as- sassinate us, they do not join us; shrill wome... ...old social garnitures, ways of thinking, rules of existing; and cheerfully dances towards the Ruleless, Unknown, with such hope in its heart, and noth... ...r Spring season. Messidor, Thermidor, Fructidor, that is to say (dor being Greek for gift) Reapidor, Heatidor, Fruitidor, are Republican Summer. These... ...hen the People have lost their reason; ye will die when they recover it.” (Greek,—Plut. Opp. t. iv. p. 310. ed. Reiske, 1776.) No help! Yielding to vi... ... a thing for what we will call Far-writing without the aid of postbags; in Greek, it shall be named Telegraph.—Telegraphe sacre! answers Citoyenism: F... ...ons and Mother Society. Is not here a pretty enough third-act of a natural Greek Drama; catastrophe more uncertain than ever? The hasty Convention rus... ...ose soirees; Editor Freron, Orateur du Peuple; Barras, who has known other dances than the Carmagnole. Grim Generals of the Republic are there; in eno... ...ancers; form as it were a circumambient element round the different contre-dances, yet without deranging them. It is rare, in fact, that a Sultana in ...

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...lately, for instance, with bared bosom and death-defiant eye, as far on as Greek Missolonghi; and, strange enough, old slumbering Hellas was resuscita... ...tood not with one side or with the other, nor in the ever-vexed jarring of Greek with Greek at all,—how unspeakably ominous to dim Royalist participat... ... Human Species at his heels. Swedes, Spaniards, Polacks; Turks, Chaldeans, Greeks, dwellers in Mesopotamia: behold them all; they have come to claim p... ... charger, is here, and all the civic Functionaries; and the Federates form dances, till their strictly military evolu- tions and manoeuvres can begin.... ..., under this nether Moon; speechless nurselings, infants as we call them, (Greek), crow in arms; and sprawl out numb-plump little limbs,—impatient for... ...ter 2.5.XI. The Hereditary Representative. And yet it is not by carmagnole-dances and singing of ca- ira, that the work can be done. Duke Brunswick is...

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...and never writes anything but her an- swers to them. She plays, sings and Dances, but has no taste for either, and excells in none, tho’ she says she... ... the Queen of Scots, was yet an amiable young woman and famous for reading Greek while other people were hunting. It was in the reign of Henry the 7t... ...ter in law the Lady Jane Grey, who has been al- ready mentioned as reading Greek. Whether she really understood that language or whether such a study ... ...conducting to the scaffold, she wrote a sen- tence in Latin and another in Greek on seeing the dead Body of her Husband accidentally passing that way.... ...mined to mortify me, and accordingly when we were sitting down between the dances, she came to me with more than her usual insulting importance attend...

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... pos sess all the erudition which mankind has hoarded up from age to age. Greek and Latin were as familiar to them as the bab ble of their childhood.... ...th is but one of the good offices which are expected from it. Therefore it dances on the hearth, and laughs broadly throughout the room, and plays a t... ...ponderous folios, and quar tos, and little duodecimos, in English, Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Chaldaic, and all other languages that either originated at ... ...acted an air of deep erudition, as if its cushion were stuffed with Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, and other hard matters. In this chair, from one year’s e...

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...cate measures.” 139 Yo n g e Master Gottfried looked perplexed, for these dances were matters of great punctilio. It was but seven years since the Lo... ...onsented to figure alone with Sir Kasimir in one of the majestic, graceful dances performed by a single couple before a gazing assembly. So she let hi... ...s brother, fencing 182 The Dove in the Eagle’s Nest in the hall, learning Greek with the chaplain, reading or sing- ing to his mother, or carving gra... ...h! there they are. Quick-eyed Vittoria has seen the caval- cade first, and dances off to tell Ermentrude and Stine time enough to prepare their last b...

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...y is the finest thing in nature.” It’s finer than the finest work of art—than a Greek bas relief, than a great Titian, than a Gothic cathedral. It’s very... ...would happen. Suddenly I receive a Titian, by the post, to hang on my wall—a Greek bas relief to stick over my chimney piece. The key of a beautiful e... ...ence. It is impossible, in Rome at least, to look long at a great company of Greek sculptures without feeling the effect of their noble quietude; whic... ...during the second winter at Palazzo Roccanera she began to go to parties, to dances, she always, at a reasonable hour, lest Mrs. Osmond should be tire... ...opose departure. Isabel appreciated the sacrifice CHAPTER 40 339 of the late dances, for she knew her little companion had a passionate pleasure in th... ...ter this she took Pansy to a great party, to which Osmond, who never went to dances, did not accompany them. Pansy was as ready for a dance as ever; w... ...gaged.” “She’s not engaged for everything, and you can reserve yourself. She dances very hard, and you’ll be the fresher.” “She dances beautifully,” s...

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...retation, and refer to his own exquisite art in arranging pageants, morris-dances, May-day festivities, and such-like holiday delights, for which he a... ..., a chapter of the Septuagint, and, moreover, having had his lesson in the Greek T estament.” “Ay,” said his mother, “and I have sewn a sprig of witch... ...planets, curiously intermingled with talismanical characters and scraps of Greek and Hebrew. In the midst were some Latin verses from a cabalistical a... ...look ye, there is another— a very learned man, I promise you, and can vent Greek and Hebrew as fast as I can Thieves’ Latin he has an humour of sympat... ...sequent— raro antecedentem, as Doctor Bircham was wont to say. But this is Greek to you now, honest Lawrence, and in sooth learn- ing is dry work. Han...

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... one piece, pair of gaudy vases of very artificial flowers; between them a Greek warrior with his helmet off, sacrificing a clock to the Genius of Fra... ...d been at school. She had a crowd of cousins and acquaintances, and we had dances at her house, and went out to dances at other houses, and, both at h...