Prospective students also were required to demonstrate an ability to translate four books of Caesar's Gallic Wars, six books of Virgil's Aeneid, Jacob's or Felton's Greek Reader, and at least one of Xenophon's Anabasis.

Educated at Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, he remained in Cambridge after his ordination, becoming Reader in Greek Grammar in 1615 and Reader in Greek Language in 1618.

* Greek Drama for the Common Reader ; verse translations, revised and renamed version of 1954 volume ( 1967 )

On April 14, 1525, Ceporin was appointed as the first Reader of Greek and Hebrew at Zwingli's school of theology in Zurich.

We were struck by the notable absence of banana skins and beer cans, but just so that we wouldn't go overboard on Greek refinement, perfection was side-stepped by a couple of braying portable radios.

In the imagination of the nineteenth century the Greek tragedians and Shakespeare stand side by side, their affinity transcending all the immense contrarieties of historical circumstance, religious belief, and poetic form.

In Greek tragedy as in Shakespeare, mortal actions are encompassed by forces which transcend man.

The shadows cast by the personages of Greek and Shakespearean drama lengthen into a greater darkness.

Discoveries recently made of old Biblical manuscripts in Hebrew and Greek and other ancient writings, some by the early church fathers, in themselves called for a restudy of the Bible.

You explain English by Greek ''.

The focus of novelty in this world now lay in the south-eastern districts of the Greek mainland, and by 800 virtually the entire Aegean, always excepting its northern shores, had accepted the Geometric style of pottery.

Greek history and culture were enduringly fertilized, and plagued, by the interplay of these conjoined yet opposed factors.

two of those poetic adagios in Greek veils ( and superb esthetic acrobacy ) by Alla Osipenko and Igor Chernishev in one case and Inna Zubkovskaya and Yuri Kornevey in the other ; ;

Greek Christian scribes played a crucial role in the preservation of Aristotle by copying all the extant Greek language manuscripts of the corpus.

Most of the still extant works of Aristotle, as well as a number of the original Greek commentaries, were translated into Arabic and studied by Muslim philosophers, scientists and scholars.

With the loss of the study of ancient Greek in the early medieval Latin West, Aristotle was practically unknown there from c. AD 600 to c. 1100 except through the Latin translation of the Organon made by Boethius.

In the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, interest in Aristotle revived and Latin Christians had translations made, both from Arabic translations, such as those by Gerard of Cremona, and from the original Greek, such as those by James of Venice and William of Moerbeke.

However, while Apollo has a great number of appellations in Greek myth, only a few occur in Latin literature, chief among them Phoebus ( ; Φοίβος, Phoibos, literally " radiant "), which was very commonly used by both the Greeks and Romans in Apollo's role as the god of light.

The connection with Dorians and their initiation festival apellai is reinforced by the month Apellaios in northwest Greek calendars, but it can explain only the Doric type of the name, which is connected with the Ancient Macedonian word " pella " ( Pella ), stone.

However, the Greek tradition is referring to the existence of vapours and chewing of laurel-leaves, which seem to be confirmed by recent studies.

Plato describes the priestesses of Delphi and Dodona as frenzied women, obsessed by " mania " ( μανία: frenzy ), a Greek word connected with " mantis " ( μάντις: prophet ).

However, this story may reflect a cultural influence which had the reverse direction: Hittite cuneiform texts mention a Minor Asian god called Appaliunas or Apalunas in connection with the city of Wilusa attested in Hittite inscriptions, which is now generally regarded as being identical with the Greek Ilion by most scholars.

The adoption of a standard recognizable type for a long time, is probably because nature gives preference in survival of a type which has long be adopted by the climatic conditions, and also due to the general Greek belief that nature expresses itself in ideal forms that can be imagined and represented.

The Greek sculptors tried to clarify it by looking for mathematical proportions, just as they sought some reality behind appearances.

The type is represented by neo-Attic Imperial Roman copies of the late 1st or early 2nd century, modelled upon a supposed Greek bronze original made in the second quarter of the 5th century BCE, in a style similar to works of Polykleitos but more archaic.

Though the proportions were always important in Greek art, the appeal of the Greek sculptures eludes any explanation by proportion alone.

The episode of Iphigenia and Cymon that inspired such painters as Benjamin West ( 1773 ), John Everett Millais ( 1848 ) and Frederic Leighton ( 1884 ) is not a Greek myth, but a novella taken from Boccaccio's Decameron and developed later by the poet and dramatist John Dryden.

Founders of papyrology were the Viennese orientalist Joseph von Karabacek ( Arabic papyrology ), Wilhelm Schubart ( Greek papyrology ), the Austrian antiquarian Theodor Graf who acquired more than 100, 000 Greek, Arabic, Coptic and Persian papyri in Egypt, which were bought by the Austrian Archduke Rainer, G. F. Tsereteli who published papyri of Russian and Georgian collections, Frederic George Kenyon, Ulrich Wilcken, Bernard Pyne Grenfell, Arthur Surridge Hunt and other distinguished scientists.

Hadley's Greek Grammar ( 1860 ; revised by Frederic de Forest Allen, 1884 ) was based on Curtius's Schulgrammatik ( 1852, 1855, 1857, 1859 ), and long held its place in American schools.

Many famous people are buried in the graveyard: Elizabeth Barrett Browning ( in a tomb designed by Frederic, Lord Leighton ), Walter Savage Landor, Arthur Hugh Clough, Fanny Trollope and her daughter-in-law Theodosia Garrow Trollope and three other family members, Isa Blagden, Southwood Smith, Hiram Powers, Joel Tanner Hart, Theodore Parker, Fanny, the wife of William Holman Hunt in a tomb he himself sculpted, Mary, the daughter of John Roddam Spencer Stanhope in a tomb he himself sculpted, Louise, sister to Henry Adams, whose dying he describes in his ' Chaos ' chapter in The Education of Henry Adams, two children of the Greek painter George Mignaty, whom Robert had paint Casa Guidi as it was when Elizabeth Barrett Browning died there, and Nadezhda De Santis, a black Nubian slave brought to Florence at fourteen from Jean-François Champollion's 1827 expedition to Egypt and Nubia, while the French Royalist exile Félicie de Fauveau sculpted two tombs here.

From this action sprang the idea of somehow uniting Greek and Shakespearean drama into a new total form, capable of restoring to life the ancient moral and poetic responses.

Although it is not possible to sunder old and new in this era, I shall consider in the present chapter primarily the first decades of the eighth century and shall interpret them as an apogee of the first stage of Greek civilization.

The new `` Phedre '' was done in 17th century setting, instead of ancient Greek ; ;

Phoenician gave way to a number of new writing systems, including the Greek alphabet and Aramaic, a widely used abjad.

The press was started by Aldus based on his love of classics, and at first printed new copies of Plato, Aristotle, and other Greek and Latin classics.

Andromeda appears in Disney's Hercules: The Animated Series as a new student of " Prometheus Academy " which Hercules and other characters from Greek mythology attend.

Following the Greek War of Independence, most post-Byzantine features were cleared from the site as part of a Hellenizing project that swept the new nation-state.

The word was coined in 1834 from the Greek ἄνοδος ( anodos ), ' ascent ', by William Whewell, who had been consulted by Michael Faraday over some new names needed to complete a paper on the recently discovered process of electrolysis.

His Hellenic Jewish parents called him Joseph ( although the Byzantine text-type calls him, Iōsēs, ' Joses ', a Greek variant of ' Joseph '), but when he sold all his goods and gave the money to the apostles in Jerusalem, they gave him a new name: Barnabas.

Darius then began raising a huge new army with which he meant to completely subjugate Greece ; however, in 486 BC, his Egyptian subjects revolted, indefinitely postponing any Greek expedition.

In the meanwhile, Darius began raising a huge new army with which he meant to completely subjugate Greece ; however, in 486 BC, his Egyptian subjects revolted, indefinitely postponing any Greek expedition.

Both sides publicly call for the resolution of intercommunal differences and creation of a new federal system ( Greek Cypriot position ) or confederate system ( Turkish Cypriot position ) of government.

The Cenozoic Era ( or ; also Cænozoic or Cainozoic ; meaning " new life ", from Greek kainos " new ", and zoe " life ") is the current and most recent of the three Phanerozoic geological eras, following the Mesozoic Era and covering the period from 65. 5 Ma to the present.

The new party had four objectives: to confront Turkish expansionism in Cyprus, to reestablish and solidify democratic rule, to give the country a strong government, and to make a powerful moderate party a force in Greek politics.

In 1816, in the third volume of Lorenz Oken's Lehrbuch der Naturgeschichte, the author found sufficient similarities in the dentition of coyotes and jackals to place these species into a new separate genus from Canis called Thos after the classical Greek word θώς ( jackal ).

The term clone is derived from the Ancient Greek word κλών ( klōn, “ twig ”), referring to the process whereby a new plant can be created from a twig.

The word was coined in 1834 from the Greek κάθοδος ( kathodos ), ' descent ' or ' way down ', by William Whewell, who had been consulted by Michael Faraday over some new names needed to complete a paper on the recently discovered process of electrolysis.

After the battle of Plataea, the Greek cities extinguished their fires and brought new fire from the hearth of Greece, at Delphi ; in the foundation stories of several Greek colonies, the founding colonists were first dedicated at Delphi.

The veneration of that classical past, particularly pre-Christian Rome, the new availability of Greek philosophical works, the successes of humanism and natural science along with the fragmentation of the Christian churches and increased understanding of other faiths, all helped erode the image of the church as the unique source of wisdom, destined to dominate the whole world.

Alexander the Great's conquest of the Achaemenid Empire marked the beginning of the Hellenistic period, which was characterized by a new wave of Greek colonization in Asia and Africa, with Greek ruling classes established in Egypt, southwest Asia and northwest India.

The Renaissance in Europe ushered in a new age of scientific and intellectual inquiry and appreciation of ancient Greek and Roman civilizations.

The name Eocene comes from the Greek ( eos, dawn ) and ( kainos, new ) and refers to the " dawn " of modern (' new ') mammalian fauna that appeared during the epoch.