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Cynegeticus (Ancient Greek: Κυνηγετικός, Kynegetikos "related to hunting" from κυνηγέω "I hunt"), is a treatise by the ancient Greek philosopher and military leader Xenophon, usually translated as "On Hunting" or "Hunting with Dogs." [1] It is one of the four works by Xenophon on arts or skills (each ends with -ikos/-icus).
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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 ...
Wilkins, a 17th-century philosopher, had proposed a universal language based on a classification system that would encode a description of the thing a word describes into the word itself—for example, Zi identifies the genus beasts; Zit denotes the "difference" rapacious beasts of the dog kind; and finally Zitα specifies dog.
Rhaphanidosis is the act of inserting the root of a radish into the anus.It is mentioned by Aristophanes as a punishment for adultery in Classical Athens in the fifth and fourth century BC.
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 ...
Codex Ravennas 429 of Ravenna’s Classense Library, dated to the mid-tenth century, is the oldest manuscript to preserve all eleven extant comedies of Aristophanes. [1] About a quarter of the Lysistrata and the entirety of the Thesmophoriazusae survive the medieval period only in this codex and copies made from it. [2]
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... This category has the following 2 subcategories, out of 2 total. ... (3 C, 5 P) P. Plays by Aristophanes (11 ...