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The work never mentions Finland and Russia directly, but the song was interpreted to replace Athens with Finland and Persia with Russia. [2] The work was the one of three published under the title 3 songs for chorus, Op. 31. Each song, however, has a different purpose and instrumentation. [1] [2]
The Areopagus sermon refers to a sermon delivered by Apostle Paul in Athens, at the Areopagus, and recounted in Acts 17:16–34. [1] [2] The Areopagus sermon is the most dramatic and most fully-reported speech of the missionary career of Saint Paul and followed a shorter address in Lystra recorded in Acts 14:15–17. [3]
When Paul and Silas could not be found, the mob took a man named "Jason", as one of Paul's followers, to the civic authorities (called politarchs in verse 6; a title attested in inscriptional evidence for Thessalonica) [13] with a charge of disturbance (verses 6–7) [10] that Paul's teaching of "the Kingdom" (cf. Acts 28:31) was 'inherently ...
"Song for Athene", which has a performance time of about seven minutes, is an elegy consisting of the Hebrew word alleluia ("let us praise the Lord") sung monophonically six times as an introduction to texts excerpted and modified from the funeral service of the Eastern Orthodox Church and from Shakespeare's Hamlet (probably 1599–1601). [4]
An Athenian poet with sad and melancholy verses, asserted by Pausanias to be the Athenians' oldest hymn-poet, [1] and first to sing an iaemos on the tomb of Linus. Previous to Homer, he had written a poem about Eros, [2] about the Charites, [3] without mentioning their number or their names, and Zeus after Philostratus and several hymns, including one to Demeter; he was one of the first to ...
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"The Marching Song Of The Covert Battalions" – 3:43 "The World Turned Upside Down" – 2:18 "Dolphins" – 3:11 "Valentine's Day Is Over" – 3:28 "North Sea Bubble" – 4:30 "Body Of Water" – 5:07 "Levi Stubbs' Tears" – 3:39 "A Lover Sings" – 4:11 "She's Got A New Spell" – 4:01 "Cindy Of A Thousand Lives" – 6:39
Adopted by a wealthy Athenian knight, he studies under Socrates and learns the art of armour making, becoming a rich man. He earns his freedom and fortune only to face Sparta as an Athenian warrior, outfitting ships and showing reckless bravery in order to impress the Athenians and become one of them.