Word: ancient
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Harvard Classical Club. "Ancient Vase-Paintings in their Relation to the Iliad." Part I. Illustrated lecture by Dr. Julius Sachs. Upper Boylston 7.45 p. m. The public are invited...
Harvard Classical Club. "Ancient Vase-Paintings in their Relation to the Iliad." Part II. Illustrated lecture by Dr. Julius Saclis. Upper Boylston, 7.45 p. m. The public are invited...
Professor F. W. Putnam, director of the Peabody Museum, gave a lecture last evening in Association Hall, Boston, in the Natural Science Course. His subject was "The Serpent Mound and the Ancient People of the Ohio Valley...
...historial novel called "Antar, a Bedouin Romance," written during the reign of Haroun all Raschid, and, as it is 4,000 pages long, only selected translations could be given. This poem depicts the wild life of the desert, such as the Iliad affords us of the life of the ancient Greeks. Antar was a real character, and his fame as a warrior and poet was long preserved by tradition. Singlehanded he put hundreds to flight, and with a few followers dispersed the armies of Chosroes, King of Persia. The field of Arabic poetry is comparatively unknown even to the most...
...course of lectures, under the auspices of Lowell Institute, will be given by Prof. Lyon, of Harvard, on "Ancient American Life." The first lecture will be on Tuesday, Feb. 14th, and the subject will be continued on successive Tuesday and Friday evenings...