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The Molossus were dogs that were kept by the ancient Greek tribe and kingdom of the Molossians, who inhabited the region of Epirus. [1] [2]The Molossus were famous throughout the ancient world for their size and ferocity and were frequently mentioned in ancient literature, including the writings of Aristophanes, [3] Aristotle, [4] Grattius, [5] Horace, [6] [7] Lucan, [8] Lucretius, [9] Martial ...
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Today the women at the festival Are going to kill me for insulting them! [5]This bold statement by Euripides is the absurd premise upon which the whole play depends. The women are incensed by his plays' portrayal of the female sex as mad, murderous, and sexually depraved, and they are using the festival of the Thesmophoria (an annual fertility celebration dedicated to Demeter) as an ...
The sieve was held by the two middle fingers only making it almost impossible to keep the sieve still for any length of time and thus ensuring a prognostication. The complicating factor is that in the Latin text accompanying the picture the sieve is said to "turn around" ( circum agatur ), which clearly it cannot do unless held at two ...
Peace (Ancient Greek: Εἰρήνη Eirḗnē) is an Athenian Old Comedy written and produced by the Greek playwright Aristophanes.It won second prize at the City Dionysia where it was staged just a few days before the validation of Peace of Nicias, which promised to end the ten-year-old Peloponnesian War, in 421 BC.
Aristophanes of Boeotia, a writer mentioned in Plutarch's On the Malice of Herodotus. He is also described in the Suda as having written a book about Thebes (Θηβαϊκά), which the Suda liberally quotes. His works are lost and nothing further is known of him. Aristophanes of Byzantium (c. 257 – c. 185 BC), Greek scholar, critic and grammarian
“Reservation Dogs” star D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai didn’t need words to make a statement about the plight of missing and murdered Indigenous women on the red carpet of the Primetime Emmys on Sunday.
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