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The glory that was Greece : a survey of Hellenic culture & civilisation (1911)

Stobart, J. C. (John Clarke), 1878-1933 · Philadelphia : Lippincott · leaf 203

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her festival instituted by Peisistratus led to import-ant literary results. This was the Great Dionysia. Dionysuswas a late-comer in Olympian mythology, probably fromThrace. As the god of wine, his coming had to face someopposition from the temperance party, but like a god hetriumphed. It was at… … 1. CORINTHIAN VASE.3. BLACK-FIGURED VASE. 2. RED-FIGURED VASE. 4. WHITE POLYCHROME VASE. THE AGES OF TRANSITIONtyrants younger son Hipparchus. At his court were, amongothers, Simonides, Anacreon, and Onomacritus. Simonides ofCeos is specially associated with the dithyramb, the chorus inhonour of…

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