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[9]: xii Additionally, myth was central to classical Athenian drama. The tragic playwrights Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides took most of their plots from myths of the age of heroes and the Trojan War. Many of the great tragic stories (e.g. Agamemnon and his children, Oedipus, Jason, Medea, etc.) took on their classic form in these tragedies.
During the Archaic period, the Greek population grew beyond the capacity of the limited arable land of Greece proper, resulting in the large-scale establishment of colonies elsewhere: according to one estimate, the population of the widening area of Greek settlement increased roughly tenfold from 800 BC to 400 BC, from 800,000 to as many as 7 ...
[9] In EVE Online, the Drekavac battlecruiser is a class of spaceship, flown by the Triglavian Collective. The Serbian trading card game Izvori Magije has numerous cards of drekavac type creatures, one of them named Drekavac iz vira (meaning "Drekavac from the whirlpool"). This creature is described as: "Big-headed and with long thin necks ...
[1] [9] The heroic image of the Battle of Kosovo and the cult of Lazar's martyrdom has lost its force over time. The epic expression of the Battle was cultivated in the emigration of Serbs to the mountainous regions of Old Serbia, Montenegro and Herzegovina. [1] Following the Fall of Constantinople (1453), three thousand Serbs began a nomadic life.
Sirtaki or syrtaki [1] (Greek: συρτάκι) is a dance of Greek origin, choreographed for the 1964 film Zorba the Greek. [2] It is a recent Greek folkdance, and a mixture of "syrtos" and the slow and fast rhythms of the hasapiko dance.
[1] [2] The band disbanded following the disintegration of Yugoslavia. The group was founded in 1981 by Mirko Srdić “Elvis J. Kurtović”, Davor Sučić “Sejo Sexon” and Dražen Janković “Seid Karajlić”. Zabranjeno pušenje made a pause due to the departure of most of the members to the army.
YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, when they worked for PayPal. [9] Prior to working for PayPal, Hurley studied design at the Indiana University of Pennsylvania ; Chen and Karim studied computer science together at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign . [ 10 ]
Mirko Srdić (born 26 February 1962), better known by his stage name Elvis J. Kurtović, is a Bosnian rock and roll musician, actor, comedian, and music editor. He is most notable as the bandleader and co-founder of the Yugoslav punk rock band Elvis J. Kurtović & His Meteors. [1]