Word: dionysus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Greek tragedy arose out of frenzied satyr dances in honor of Dionysus. (Tragedy comes from Tragos, a goat...
There's nothing new, even in theatre critics. Mr. Benchley's commentary on "Mourning Becomes Electra" was a dirge over his own tired extremities. Was it not Sthenodes who rushed from the Theatre of Dionysus, crying "hoigar tephaloi" ("my buttocks hurt...
...gleaming cars fill Athens as the rich thunder by in their burnished armor and waving plumes. Merchants and students, soldiers and athletes and maidens tossing flower-petals crowd the streets. The dry air is full of sunshine and the smell of flowers and wine-brimming libations to the god Dionysus...
...poetry. Shy, scholarly, academic, he is a 32nd degree bachelor, is famed as most reticent, most elusive, least known U. S. man of letters. Other books: Captain Craig, The Alan Against the Sky, Merlin, Lancelot, Roman Bartholow, The Man Who Died Twice, Tristram, Calender's House, Dionysus in Doubt...