Allgemeine Encyclopädie der Wissenschaften und Künste: in alphabetischer Folge von genannten Schriftstellern, Band 83

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J. f. Gleditsch, 1866
 

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Seite 137 - Freeman — HISTORY OF FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, from the Foundation of the Achaian League to the Disruption of the United States.
Seite 235 - Mission archéologique de Macédoine. Fouilles et recherches exécutées dans cette contrée et dans les parties adjacentes de la Thrace, de la Thessalie, de l'Illyrie et de l'Epire en l'année 1861, par ordre de SM I'EMPEREUR, avec planches, par MM.
Seite 232 - A Description of some Important Theatres and other Remains in Crete, from a MS. History of Candia, by ONORIO BELLI, in 1586. Being a Supplement to the " Museum of Classical Antiquities.
Seite 285 - ... to the west of the town. It is that of an immense theatre, whose enormous portals are yet standing. It seems to be one of the grandest and most perfect specimens, which the ancients have left of this kind of building. The situation selected for it, according to a custom observed throughout Greece, is the side of a mountain sloping to the sea. Thus by the plans of Grecian architects the vast operations of nature were rendered subservient to...
Seite 285 - ... have left of this kind of building.* The situation selected for it, according to a custom observed throughout Greece, is the side of a mountain sloping to the sea. Thus, by the plans of. Grecian architects, the vast operations of Nature were rendered subservient to works of Art ; for the mountains on which they built their theatres possessed naturally a theatrical form, and, towering behind them, exhibited a continuation of the immense cotton which contained the seats for the spectators, giving...
Seite 189 - LANGUEBAM : sed tu comitatus protinus ad me venisti centum, Symmache, discipulis. centum me tetigere manus Aquilone gelatae : non habui febrem, Symmache, nunc habeo.
Seite 213 - A theatre was an appropriate edifice at Thoricus, for it was in the port of this place that Dionysus, the deity of the Athenian drama, first landed in Attica. " The outline of this theatre is not of a semicircular form ; it is of an irregular curve, nearly resembling the fourth of an ellipse, — the longer axis commencing with the stage, and the seats beginning from the lesser axis, and running in tiers rising above each other concentrically with the curve.
Seite 373 - ... écrit. On est bien loin sans doute de s'attendre à trouver dans un chroniqueur du quatorzième siècle la langue harmonieuse et régulière des beaux âges de la Grèce antique; mais notre chroniqueur défigure cette belle langue beaucoup plus que ne l'avait fait aucun autre écrivain avant lui. Le grec est sous sa plume un patois mêlé de grec et de français, n'ayant ni la mélodie de l'un ni l'aisance de l'autre. Les...
Seite 251 - Orchestra autem pulpitus erat scenae, ubi saltator agere posset, aut duo inter se disputare. Ibi enim poetae comoedi et tragoedi ad certamen conscendebant, hisque canentibus alii gestus edebant (ibid., 18.44, De orchestra).
Seite 371 - The History of Greece, from the Conquest by the Crusaders to its Conquest by the Turks, AD 1204 to 1566 ; and the History of the Empire of Trebizond, AD 1204 to 1461, (pub.

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