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...extremely difficult by the fact that there was no curtain, limited the Greek dramatists to one place. These conditions also rendered the unity of time necessary, as the events must follow in consecutive order. Aristotle remarks that this unity is only a characteristic of dramatic art, distinguishing it from epic poetry, which had no such limit...
...Semetic races seem incapable of epic or dramatic poetry. Their creations are subjective, and the poets cannot sing on subjects unconnected with themselves. It is in story telling, like that of the "Thousand and OneNights" that the epic impulses of the Semites find their scope. These tales are constantly undergoing invention and amplification at the present day. The stories themselves probably came from India through Persian translations, but they have been adapted to Arabian surroundings by numberless delicate and graceful touches...
...lecture given by Dr. Sachs last night in Upper Boylston was upon the relation of the vases to the "Cypria," one of the lost epics which supplemented the Homeric poems. We know this poem through quotations which we find in various authors, and by its influence on Greek art and literature. In this epic we find the determination of Zeus to relieve the earth of its surplus population by a destructive war given as the cause of the Trojan war. In furtherance of this plan, Thetis was given in marriage to Peelers, that their son Achilles might be the bulwark...
...that is better He tells us among other things that by an intricate method of skipping, the "Bharata" may be read in ninety days; what exercise for a novelist! And yet he seems at home in this sea of words and dallies with its pollysyllabic names. The whole epic is compressed into a dozen pages; the fewer the better fare.' A somewhat weak poem in a some what far fetched metre is contributed by Mr. Sanford, and next follows a strong essay, written by Mr. Fletcher, on Zola's "L'Assommoir", sickening subject. The description of the book does...
...literature is divided into three classes, Religious, Scientific and Historical. The first class consists of epic poems, hymns, prayers and incantations; the second of books of astronomy, mathematics, medicine, grammar, etc.; the third of law documents, lists of magistrates, records of the dynasties, etc. Dr. Frothingham dwelt on the Mythology of the Assyrians, comparing it with the Mythology of Greece. He read several interesting extracts from poems and historical accounts. He will devote the next lecture solely to Assyrian and Babylonian...