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... gods altogether . The Greek scholar Edith Hamilton contrasts the line of Sophocles : " Nothing is wrong which gods command " with Euripides ' : " If gods do evil , then they are not gods . " To him the war of Greeks against Sparta in ...
... gods altogether . The Greek scholar Edith Hamilton contrasts the line of Sophocles : " Nothing is wrong which gods command " with Euripides ' : " If gods do evil , then they are not gods . " To him the war of Greeks against Sparta in ...
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... gods then caused a stage to be constructed . A sage named Bharata was commissioned as director of the new art . The Silver Age also ended and passed forever into legend , but the drama created by the gods then has remained with man down ...
... gods then caused a stage to be constructed . A sage named Bharata was commissioned as director of the new art . The Silver Age also ended and passed forever into legend , but the drama created by the gods then has remained with man down ...
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... gods , and culminates in the build- ing of the great palace of the gods , Valhalla . Die Walküre ( The Valkyrie ) pursues the story of the slow- moving ruin which the stolen ring brings upon the gods . It con- tains the desperate lovers ...
... gods , and culminates in the build- ing of the great palace of the gods , Valhalla . Die Walküre ( The Valkyrie ) pursues the story of the slow- moving ruin which the stolen ring brings upon the gods . It con- tains the desperate lovers ...
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How Drama Was Born | 1 |
The Theatre of Greece | 6 |
Roman Spectacle | 33 |
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