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1.
Rereading the Black Legend: The Discourses of Religious and Racial Difference in the Renaissance Empires
Contributors:
Publisher:
University of Chicago Press 2007
Subjects:
Black Legend (Spanish History)
Spain--Civilization--1516-1700
Imperialism--History--16th Century
Spain--Foreign Public Opinion
National Characteristics, Spanish
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...Cambridge (where he hadbeen Greek orator) with little to do...Herodotus no doubt referred to the Greek term theoroi, or contemU...shoulders,” based in the Greek ethnographic tradition of monU...00ADtory, fiction and fact, legend and chronicle, was not a clear...
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The Routledge Handbook of Greek Mythology: Based on H. J. Rose's
Contributors:
Publisher:
Routledge 2004
Subjects:
Mythology, Greek
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...regularly suckled by animals in Greek legend, there is no record in early...himself, perhaps with the Roman legend in mind.71 The only other Greek tale of the kind is presented as a Greek parallel for the legend of Romulus and Remus in the pseudo...
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A Handbook of Greek Mythology: Including Its Extension to Rome
Contributors:
Publisher:
Routledge 1991
Subjects:
Mythology, Roman
Mythology, Greek
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...particularly apt to be founders of cities in Greek legend.56 The transformation of Romulus into...Acca Larentia to human rank is a piece of Greek Euhemerism, and the rest of the legend is so like Greek aetiological myths, especially the later...
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Greek Sculpture
Contributors:
Publisher:
Harry N. Abrams 1957 (Revised edition)
Subjects:
Sculpture, Greek
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...00ADvedere, Rome, No. 74.According to Greek legend, Laocoön, a Trojan and a...of the Aeneid Virgilhas clad the Greek material in Roman garb, by giving...chance: theincident from the Trojan legend was linked with the city of Romeand...
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Figures of Play: Greek Drama and Metafictional Poetics
Contributors:
Publisher:
Oxford University Press 2001
Subjects:
Aesthetics, Ancient
Greek Drama--History And Criticism
Drama--Technique
Performing Arts In Literature
Theater In Literature
Poetics
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...K. C. 1961-81. A History of Greek Philosophy. Cambridge...1989. Inventing the Barbarian: Greek Self-Definition through Tragedy...Indo-European Folk-Tales and Greek Legend. Cambridge.Halliwell, S. 1984...
7.
Greek Tragedy in the Light of Vase Paintings
Contributors:
Publisher:
Macmillan 1898
Subjects:
Art And Literature--Greece
Greek Drama (Tragedy)
Vase-Painting, Greek
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...to the thoroughly Greek landscapeof Southern Italy. Greek names of cities aboundedeverywhere, and the ancestral...own mint and struck its own coinwith, of course, a Greek legend and a Greek inscription.Tarentum soon became the largest and...
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Greek Tragedy on the American Stage: Ancient Drama in the Commercial Theater, 1882-1994
Contributors:
Publisher:
Greenwood 1995
Subjects:
Greek Drama (Tragedy)--Presentation, Modern
Theater--United States--History
United States--Civilization--Greek Influences
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...year,and in this comparison, the Greek theater's version failed. For...completepicture of this key figure of Greek legend. The critics hailed the dual scripts...chorus were of the sort that gives Greek drama a bad name. Kevin KellyU...
9.
New Chapters in Greek Art
Contributors:
Publisher:
Clarendon Press 1926
Subjects:
Art, Greek
Theaters--Greece
Sculpture, Greek
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...ofwhich went on for centuries, are Greek save in theirinscriptions, and in...the subjects of which are takenfrom Greek legend: on the lids are often placed effigiesof...influencefrom Cumae Neapolis and other Greek cities of thesouth.It is a certain...
10.
Masterpieces of Greek Art: Text and Color Photography
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Publisher:
New York Graphic Society 1960
Subjects:
Art, Greek
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...both of thatcultural epoch and of Greek work in ivory. It is tiny, less...sword hilt. According to primitive Greek legend, the Giants were sprungfrom Earth...occurred which are favoritethemes of Greek poetry and art (for instance...
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