Word: myth
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...chosing subjects for their dramas the writers of tragedy were limited. Tragedy dealt with the gods, and the story represented must be some wellknown myth, one which the whole audience knew in its main outlines. The story of the Medea of Euripides was told at this point to illustrate this. The writers of comedy were not thus limited, but were allowed to give free rein to their originality. This is Illustrated in the "Clouds," where Aristophanes attacks the new spirit of inquiry and culture which was growing up at Athens...
...connection with the art remains is that of enormous power and enterprise. The politics of western Asia pass before us like a mighty panorama. The products of the imagination are partly mythical and partly legendary. The great poem known as the Izdubar epic seems to be a solar myth and contains as an episode a deluge story practically the same as in the book of Genesis. There are also tablets recording the adventures of the goddess of love, the story of creation and the wars of the god. From the religion of the people come many tablets with hymns...
...Lang's Myth Ritual and Religion, 2 vols., $3.50, published...
...leading up to the catastrophe. The poet makes us understand the conduct of Medea, although no real sympathy with her unnatural deed is possible. Medea herself was, in the minds of the Athenians, a real and terrible woman, who could no more be explained away as a moon myth than could Xantippe or Aspasia...
...rendered doubly attractive by the addition of a large, commodious and elegantly finished swimming-bath. To this addition the lockers in the basement of the gymnasium will be removed, and thus more room will be furnished for the less important branches of physical culture. It seems like a myth when we realize that the undergraduates' favorite fancy is at last to be realized, and that Hemenway will be the only college gymnasium to have the luxury of a swimming-bath. The thanks of the University are due to the generous contributors to this project, without whose aid the new auxiliary...