The Silver Age of the Greek WorldUniversity of Chicago Press, 1906 - 482 หน้า |
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Alexander Alexandria ancient Antiochus Asia Minor Athenians Athens Augustus Cæsar cæsura called Carneades century B. C. Cicero citizens civilisation coast Corinth culture decay Delos Dion Dion Chrysostom doubt East Egypt Egyptian emperor Empire Epicurean evidence famous fashion favour Fayyum feast foreign give gods Greece Greek Greek cities Greek world hear Hellenism Hellenistic Hellenistic world Herod honour imitation Indian influence inscriptions interesting island Jews Josephus king land Latin letters lived Lucullus Mithradates modern Mytilene native Nero never orator papyri perhaps philosophers Pliny Plutarch poet political Polybius Pompey population Posidonius prætor probably province Ptolemy Puteoli regards religion Rhodians Roman Rome says seems Senate slaves society speaks Stoic Strabo Syria tells temples things tion town tract Verres wealth whole δὲ ἐν καὶ οἱ τὴν τῆς τὸ τοῖς τοῦ τῶν
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หน้า 68 - And they shall make a spoil of thy riches, and make a prey of thy merchandise ; and they shall break down thy walls, and destroy thy pleasant houses ; and they shall lay thy stones, and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water.
หน้า 264 - Bithynia, which sometimes tell the very same facts from an official point of view, but by the allusions in the Acts of the Apostles, and the Epistles of St. Paul, which date from about the same period.
หน้า 36 - Companies of actors in India must have been common at an early date [Wilson appears to know nothing of the Greek strolling companies], and must have been reputable, for the "inductions
หน้า 2 - ... umpire with power to enforce his will, of the consequent development of wide commerce over the world, with its diffusion not only of wealth but of enlightenment. These material gains were indisputable, even though a dangerous monopoly ' was being established not merely through the enormous advantages inseparable from Roman influence, but by the jealous destruction of all those commercial centres, which might have rivalled Rome by reason of favoured situation or old traditions of trade. But far...
หน้า 443 - Attic models, what was more obvious, what more certain, than that such pictures as the opening scenes of St. Luke's Gospel or the Sermon on the Mount would be despised by the critics as the work of late-learning and self-taught people, who knew nothing of the art of expression or of the laws of composition? And yet the world has judged differently; the idyll of Bethlehem lives, while the idyll of...
หน้า 374 - He seems to feel all through — in this perhaps reflecting the influence of Roman habits on Greek fashion — that education is no longer a state affair, but the private duty of parents. There is hardly a word, in his instructions, upon schools and schooling. But he alludes casually to the strange scenes which boys were allowed to witness — criminals dressed up with robes and crowns, and presently stripped and publicly tortured ; paintings of subjects so objectionable that we should carefully...
หน้า 169 - ... mollified the people of Dionysopolis, who were strongly against me, whose chief man Hermippus I muzzled not only by talking to him, but by admitting him to my intimacy. Hephaestus of Apamea, Megaristus of Antandrus, a worthless person, Nicias of Smyrna — the most trivial creatures, I compassed with all my affability, even Nympho of Colophon. I did all this, not that such men, or even their whole nation, delight me; I am sick of their want of character (levitas), their obsequiousness, their...
หน้า 215 - with its vague conceptions of harmony as a law of the universe, its worship of order, its spirituality in conceiving the Godhead, its asceticism as the highest of earthly conditions," represented a real awakening of the religious spirit.
หน้า 36 - Hindu actors were never apparently classed with vagabonds or menials, and were never reduced to contemplate a badge of servitude as a mark of distinction. As to theatrical edifices, the manners of the people, and the nature of the climate, were adverse to their existence, and the spacious open courts of the dwellings of persons of consequence were equally adapted to the purposes of dramatic representation and the convenience of the spectators. We should never forget, in speaking of the Hindu drama,...