Word: myth
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...CLASSICAL CONFERENCE. "The Myth of Philoctetes as treated by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides." Mr. D. N. Robinson. "The Letters of Alciphron." Dr. C. N. Jackson. "The Three-sided Relief in the Museum of Fine Arts." (Illustrated). Dr. Arthur Fairbanks, Director of the Museum of Fine Arts. Harvard...
...CLASSICAL CONFERENCE. "The Myth of Philoctetes as treated by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides." Mr. D. N. Robinson. "The Letters of Alciphron." Dr. C. N. Jackson. "The Three-sided Relief in the Museum of Fine Arts." (Illustrated). Dr. Arthur Fairbanks, Director of the Museum of Fine Arts. Harvard...
...usually attributed to William Shakespeare, and elsewhere. He foresees that the acceptance of Mr. Booth's discoveries by, the mathematician and historian will lead to the rewriting of the history of English literature of the period shortly before and after 1600, and to the destruction of the modern Shakespeare myth. Let us hope that we are now to have a fair and dispassionate study and presentation of the Shakespeare-Bacon problem by the English departments of our colleges...
...Mackaye is not the first who has tried to dramatize this old Greek myth, poetical enough in itself to fascinate all poets. If the success of any drama is its suitability for stage presentation, then "Sappho and Phaon." as has been proved in New York, fails, but so also must the dramas of Browning and Tennyson and Swinburne be called failures. The reasons are obvious: it is too long-I think that the version given by Miss Kalisch was liberally cut down; it is too far removed from actuality; it has too little action: it is too poetical. Even...
CLASSICAL CONFERENCE. "The Oedipus Myth." Mr. G. W. Thayer. "A Recent Theory of Atoms in its Bearing on Lucretius." Professor C. P. Parker. Sever...