Sentences with phrase «greek poet»

It's comparable to the «moderation is best» idea propounded by ancient Greek poet Hesiod or the «moderation in all things» proverbial saying of the 19th century.

The exhibition also includes poems illuminated by Philip Guston and Alasdair Gray, typewriter works by outsider artist Christopher Knowles and a set of etchings by David Hockney inspired by Greek poet CP Cavafy.

The modern Greek poet CP Cavafy has been a fecund source of inspiration for artists: the sensual painter Cy Twombly loved to scrawl quotes by him on languid canvases.

Performance: Opera Cabal at The Kitchen The collective Opera Cabal presents ATTHIS, «a haunting monodrama by Austrian composer Georg Friedrich Haas with lyrics by the ancient Greek poet Sappho.»

Solo exhibition at the Alexandre Iolas Gallery, New York, in February; catalogue introduction by the Greek poet, Nicolas Calas.

Take in etchings inspired by Greek poet CP Cavafy, eerie paintings of Los Angeles, and work by a landscape artist turned tapestry designer

In 1966, while working on a series of etchings based on love poems by the Greek poet Constantine P. Cavafy, Hockney starred in a documentary by filmmaker James Scott, entitled Love's Presentation.

There are several spots around Patras that honours the famous Greek poet Kostis Palamas.

Homer is the most memorable name of the nineties; if anyone asks you can always claim you named your puppy after the Greek poet.

Twenty - six - hundred years ago, the Greek poet Sappho wrote, «Although they are only breath / Words, which I command / Are Immortal.»

Did you know that olive oil used to be called «liquid gold» by ancient Greek poet Homer?

Among the finds is a poem by the seventh - century B.C. Greek poet Archilochus.

That technique, known as the loci method, reportedly originated in 477 B.C. with the Greek poet Simonides of Ceos.

The Greek poet Sappho, whose island home of Lesbos gave us the term «lesbian,» may have had a daughter named Cleis, which would put the earliest LGBTQ parent at around 600 BCE.

' O to be a frog, lads, and live aloof from care» is a pretty jazzy translation of a quote from Theocritus, the Greek poet.

Nikos Kazantzakis, the Greek poet and novelist, once put it this way:

Isaac Bashevis Singer (1978), the Greek poet Odysseus Elytis (1979), and Czeslaw Milosz (1980) all were worthy of recognition.

He makes time for the female Greek poet, Moero, and for Epigenes, an astrologer for whom a moon crater is named.)

Jesus used agricultural metaphors, Paul quoted Greek poets, and we too need to find ways of expressing... More

Jesus used agricultural metaphors, Paul quoted Greek poets, and we too need to find ways of expressing gospel truths in the thought language of our audience...

The Elizabethan, Sanskrit, and Greek poets / sages knew all about it, and even the otherwise unhelpful Bible contains Solomon's beautiful witness to it.

He uses it to connect with the story that he's come to tell them, seamlessly weaving together the words of Greek poets and his own gospel presentation.

Whereas the Greek poets and artists freed the Greek mind to enjoy the forms of the world as they were, the original Hebrew achievement determined that Yahweh, in his relation to Israel, must be the focus of concern of the whole people.

Then he spoke of God as the unknown god whom they worshiped, quoting Greek poets to illustrate his Christian beliefs in words they could understand (see Acts 17:16 - 34).

The boy took his place, they noted, «among 52 Greek poets in the third lustrum of the contest, [and] by his talent brought to admiration the sympathy that he had roused because of his tender age, and he came away with honor.»

Although the Greek poets of antiquity praised the unsurpassed beauty of the mythological maiden princess, they could never have imagined that hundred of million of kilometers away lay a real world of equal beauty and intrigue that would captivate the hearts and minds of astronomers, planetary scientists, and space advocates alike, up to this day.

They studied and memorized long passages from the works of the great Greek poets who had lived centuries before their own time.

Not exact matches

the Greek lyric poet Tyrtaeus wrote, «The man who risks his life in battle has the best chance of saving it; the one who flees to save it is the most likely to lose it.»

A poet writing in the twentieth century A.D. may be a puny figure compared with the titanic stature of a Greek dramatist five centuries before Christ, and ethical insight can not be graded on the basis of the calendar.

For Christians this would mean substituting the Greek dike by the Christian caritas and the unmoved mover by the God who is the poet of the world.

I did some research into how the word theopneustos was used in other Greek literature of the time, and without fail, it is used of poets and philosophers who seem to speak with a certain passion and urgency that makes people listen and obey what they are saying.

This sort of despair is seldom seen in the world, such figures generally are met with only in the works of poets, that is to say, of real poets, who always lend their characters this «demoniac» ideality (taking this word in the purely Greek sense).

But the derivation of the word poet reminds us that it comes from the Greek root of the verb to make — and it was used in Greek times to describe people who made pots and roads and laws and walls.

The list includes people ranging from Solon, the Greek lawmaker and poet, who was born in 637 bcin Athens, and died in 557 bc in Cyprus, to Jett Travolta — son of the actor John Travolta — who was born in 1992 in Los Angeles, California, and died in 2009 in the Bahamas.

The real downer is Timberlake as a Greek chorus figure with feeble literary fantasies, who is an unreliable lover but not, alas, anything so interesting as an unreliable narrator: «As a poet I use symbols,» he tells us at the start.

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The remarkable site pits prominent poets such as Robert Pinsky, Charles Bernstein, and Mary Jo Salter against one other and the clock in what Gordon calls an agon, from the ancient Greek word meaning «contest» or «challenge.»

Maximus, whose first language was presumably Latin, had learned to read Homer and other epic poets in Greek.

I am what the librarians have made me with a little assistance from a professor of Greek and a few poets

Whitmarsh traces a lineage of unbelievers among the ancient Greeks that includes the historian Thucydides, the philosopher Democritus, and the poet Diagoras of Melos.

At university, where I read Greek and Latin, they appeared in the most unexpected places: a reference to cassia in a poem by Sappho written in the 6th century BC; a Roman poet's sarcastic remarks about pepper.

Jessica Bell, a thirty - something Australian - native contemporary fiction author, poet and singer / songwriter / guitarist, is the Publishing Editor of Vine Leaves Literary Journal and the director of the Homeric Writers» Retreat & Workshop on the Greek island of Ithaca.

As the ancient Greek comic poet Euboulos neatly summed up such instances: «For sensible men I prepare only three kraters: one for health (which they drink first), the second for love and pleasure, and the third for sleep.

They include a live production celebrating the influence of African American music conceived by film - maker Steve McQueen and developed by Quincy Jones, as well as a performance piece based on Euripides» Greek tragedy Helen by the acclaimed poet Anne Carson, starring Ben Whishaw and Renee Fleming.

Organized by the Wexner Center for the Arts at The Ohio State University, Elliott Hundley: The Bacchae will be accompanied by an ambitious book with new essays by Wexner Chief Curator Christopher Bedford, poet Anne Carson, noted art historian Richard Meyer, and Doug Harvey, artist, writer, critic, curator, and educator, addressing subjects including Hundley's development over the last decade, his engagement with filmic traditions, Greek tragedy as his most consistent inspiration, and the intricacies of his working process.

I have «a little Greek and less Latin», a degree in Ancient Greek Language and Literature, and hold Euripides in highest regard among all the poets of antiquity.

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