The word `` tragedy '' encloses for us in a single span both the Greek and the Elizabethan example.

I have said before how difficult it is to make any precise statements with regard to the character of the Greek and Elizabethan public.

In Elizabethan gardens " the plants were almost incidental ", and instead the design focus was on sculptures, including four wooden obelisks painted to resemble porphyry and a marble fountain with a statue of two Greek mythological figures.

The English term patriot is first attested in the Elizabethan era, via Middle French from Late Latin ( 6th century ) patriota " countryman ", ultimately from Greek πατριώτης ( patriōtēs ) " countryman ", from πατρίς, " fatherland ".

While travelling in Europe he prepared a thesis entitled John Webster and the Elizabethan Drama, which won him a scholarship to King's College, Cambridge, where he became a member of the Cambridge Apostles, helped found the Marlowe Society drama club and acted in plays including the Cambridge Greek Play.

The antihero has evolved over time, changing as society's conceptions of the hero changed, from the Elizabethan times of Faust and William Shakespeare's Falstaff, to the darker-themed Victorian literature of the 19th century, such as John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, written in the mid-18th century, or as a timid, passive, indecisive man that contrasts sharply with other Greek heroes to Philip Meadows Taylor's Confessions of a Thug.

' Poet ' comes from the Greek ' poetes ' which means ' maker ', a fact remarked upon in various contemporary texts ; also, in Elizabethan English the word ' maker ' was used to mean ' poet '.

It tells of the author's astonishment at reading the works of the ancient Greek poet Homer as freely translated by the Elizabethan playwright George Chapman.

Physically, theatre spaces took on different shapes, and practitioners re-explored different ways of staging performance and a lot of research was done into Elizabethan and Greek theatre spaces.

Robert Loggia compared it to Elizabethan play The Duchess of Malfi and the ancient Greek tragedy Medea.

( Greek, Roman & Elizabethan England ).

The inspiration for these medieval prose and poem novels, the ancient Greek romance, also led to works in the Renaissance and Elizabethan eras.

This is very popular in Elizabethan and Greek tragedies.

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.

Amphibian is derived from the Ancient Greek term ἀμφίβιος ( amphíbios ), which means " both kinds of life ", amphi meaning " of both kinds " and bio meaning " life ".

He also translated from Greek into Latin a life of St. John Chrysostom ( Venice, 1533 ); the Spiritual Wisdom of John Moschus ; The Ladder of Divine Ascent of St. John Climacus ( Venice, 1531 ), P. G., LXXXVIII.

The term " antibacterial " derives from Greek ἀντί ( anti ), " against " + βακτήριον ( baktērion ), diminutive of βακτηρία ( baktēria ), " staff, cane ", because the first ones to be discovered were rod-shaped, and the term " antibiotic " derives from anti + βιωτικός ( biōtikos ), " fil for life, lively ", which comes from βίωσις ( biōsis ), " way of life ", and that from βίος ( bios ), " life ".

In 1779, he named this part of the air " oxygen " ( Greek for " becoming sharp " because he claimed that the sharp taste of acids came from oxygen ), and the other " azote " ( Greek " no life ").

An autobiography ( from the Greek, αὐτός-autos self + βίος-bios life + γράφειν-graphein to write ) is an account of the life of a person, written by its subject.

Botany, plant science ( s ), or plant biology ( from Ancient Greek, " pasture, grass, or fodder " and that from, " to feed or to graze "), a discipline of biology, is the science of plant life.

The idea of an artifact made conscious is an ancient theme of mythology, appearing for example in the Greek myth of Pygmalion, who carved a statue that was magically brought to life, and in medieval Jewish stories of the Golem, a magically animated homunculus built of clay.

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.

Cell biology ( formerly cytology, from the Greek kytos, " contain ") is a scientific discipline that studies cells – their physiological properties, their structure, the organelles they contain, interactions with their environment, their life cycle, division and death.

A clade ( from Ancient Greek, klados, " branch ") or monophylum ( see monophyletic ) is a group consisting of an ancestor and all its descendants, a single " branch " on the " tree of life ".

They are considered loci of life energy or prana, also called shakti, qi ( Chinese ; ki in Japanese ), koach-ha-guf ( Hebrew ), bios ( Greek ) & aether ( Greek, English ), which is thought to flow among them along pathways called nadis.

The ten-pagers showcased Donald as everyman, struggling against the cruel bumps and bruises of everyday life with the nephews often acting as a Greek chorus commenting on the unfolding disasters Donald wrought upon himself.

While the term Mari expressed the relationship between Jesus and his disciples during his life, the Greek Kyrios came to represent his lordship over the world.

( His parents chose " his kooky name "— he would be known as Zowie for the next 12 years — after the Greek word zoe, life.

Much of our knowledge of the life of Diophantus is derived from a 5th century Greek anthology of number games and strategy puzzles.

In certain obscure magical writings of Egyptian origin ἀβραξάς or ἀβρασάξ is found associated with other names which frequently accompany it on gems ; it is also found on the Greek metal tesseræ among other mystic words.

Agathon introduced certain innovations into the Greek theater: Aristotle tells us in the Poetics that the characters and plot of his Anthos were original and not, following Athenian dramatic orthodoxy, borrowed from mythological subjects.

Ludwig Ross, the German archaeologist appointed Curator of the Antiquities of Athens at the time of the establishment of the Kingdom of Greece, by his explorations in the Greek islands from 1835 onwards, called attention to certain early intaglios, since known as Inselsteine ; but it was not until 1878 that C. T. Newton demonstrated these to be no strayed Phoenician products.

In certain manuscripts of Tobit, the former is called Achiachar, which, like the Greek Cyaxares, is thought to be derived from Persian Akhuwakhshatra.

As in the Greek usage and in the Benedictine, certain canticles like the Song of Moses ( Exodus xv.

The spelling Christ ( Greek Genitive:, toú Christoú ,; Nominative:, ho Christós ) in English was standardized in the 18th century, when, in the spirit of the Enlightenment, the spelling of certain words was changed to fit their Greek or Latin origins.

The executive, for example, was headed by a Greek Cypriot president, Archbishop Makarios III, and a Turkish Cypriot vice president, Dr Fazıl Küçük, elected by their respective communities for 5-year terms and each possessing a right of veto over certain types of legislation and executive decisions.

The word cactus derives, through Latin, from the Ancient Greek ( kaktos ), a name originally used for a spiny plant whose identity is not certain.

The Druze faith began as a movement in Ismailism, that was mainly influenced by Greek philosophy and gnosticism and opposed certain religious and philosophical ideologies that were present during that epoch.

The term empirical was originally used to refer to certain ancient Greek practitioners of medicine who rejected adherence to the dogmatic doctrines of the day, preferring instead to rely on the observation of phenomena as perceived in experience.

Classical Greek geometry defined the Euclidean plane and Euclidean three-dimensional space using certain postulates, while the other properties of these spaces were deduced as theorems.

In most Greek city-states, citizens received at least basic military training, serving in the standing army for a certain amount of time.

The language used by Homer is an archaic version of Ionic Greek, with admixtures from certain other dialects, such as Aeolic Greek.

* Ionic numeral system, a certain numeral system with Greek numerals

An icon ( from Greek eikōn " image ") is a religious work of art, most commonly a painting, from Eastern Christianity and in certain Eastern Catholic churches.

Georgian nationalist histories associate Japheth's sons with certain ancient tribes, called Tubals ( Tabals, Tibarenoi in Greek ) and Meshechs ( Meshekhs / Mosokhs, Moschoi in Greek ), who they claim represent non-Indo-European and non-Semitic, possibly " Proto-Iberian " tribes of Asia Minor of the 3rd-1st millennia BC.

Evidence also exists that certain Macedonian Slavs, particularly those in the northern regions, considered themselves as Serbs el come caca and the Greek Idea predominated in southern Macedonia where it was supported by substantial part of the Slavic population.

The Septuagint, the Greek version of the Hebrew Bible, influenced Longinus, who may have been the author of the great book of literary criticism, On the Sublime, although the true author is still unknown for certain.

Shortly after Evans died, Alice Kober noted that certain words in Linear B inscriptions had changing word endings — perhaps declensions in the manner of Latin or Greek.

A macro ( from the Greek μακρό for " big " or " far ") in computer science is a rule or pattern that specifies how a certain input sequence ( often a sequence of characters ) should be mapped to a replacement input sequence ( also often a sequence of characters ) according to a defined procedure.

Before the Christian era, sodomy was not illegal in Greek or, most believe, in Roman law, between adult citizens, but homosexual acts between citizens were considered acceptable only under certain social circumstances.