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Greek and Roman Mythology
Michael Lahanas
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In such a night,
Medea gather'd the enchanted herbs
That did renew old Aeson.
Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice
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Love will make men dare to die for their beloved. . . Of this Alcestis is a monument . . . for she was willing to lay down her
life for her husband . . . and so noble did this appear to the gods that they granted her the privilege of returning to earth . . . but Orpheus, the son of Oeagrus, they sent empty away. . .PLATO: The Symposium.
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Alcestis (Άλκηστις ), Alcestis ( Euripides), Alceste (Gluck)
Alcidamea (Αλκιδάμεια)
Alcimede
A girl dancing with a ball, from an Attica vase.
The dance also had undergone a wonderful development rhythmically; for even in Homer's time we read in “The Odyssey” of the court of Alcinoüs at Phocæa, how two princes danced before Ulysses and played with a scarlet ball, one throwing it high in the air, the other always catching it with his feet off the ground; and then changing, they flung the ball from one to the other with such rapidity that it made the onlookers dizzy. During the play, Demodocus chanted a song, and accompanied the dance with his lyre, the players never losing a step. Edward MacDowell
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Alcinous (Αλκίνοος / Ἀλκίνοος)
Alcippe (Αλκίππη / Ἀλκίππη)
Alcmaeon
Zeus as an old man with a ladder visiting in the night one of his many loves (probably Alcmene, the wife of Amphitryon). Hermes with a lamp helps Zeus. Museo Gregoriano Etrusco, Inv. no. 17106, Aestas painter, Southern Italy. A scene of a Phlyax play with typical ironical descriptions of the adventures of heroes and gods, c. 350-325 BC
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