transience of life
61Plato: ethics and politics — A.W.Price I Plato followed his teacher Socrates into ethics by way of a question that remained central in Greek thought: what is the relation between the virtues or excellences (aretai) of character, and happiness (eudaimonia)?1 Both concepts… …
62Das Lied von der Erde — ( The Song of the Earth ) is a large scale work for two vocal soloists and orchestra by the Austrian composer Gustav Mahler. Laid out in six separate movements, each of them an independent song, the work is described on the title page as Eine… …
63Western painting — The history of Western painting represents a continuous, though disrupted, tradition from Antiquity. [Art of the Western World: From Ancient Greece to Post Modernism (Paperback)by Bruce Cole, Simon and Shuster, 1981,… …
64aesthetics — /es thet iks/ or, esp. Brit., /ees /, n. (used with a sing. v.) 1. the branch of philosophy dealing with such notions as the beautiful, the ugly, the sublime, the comic, etc., as applicable to the fine arts, with a view to establishing the… …
65eschatology — eschatological /es keuh tl oj i keuhl, e skat l /, adj. eschatologically, adv. eschatologist, n. /es keuh tol euh jee/, n. Theol. 1. any system of doctrines concerning last, or final, matters, as death, the Judgment, the future state, etc. 2. the …
66Turgenev, Ivan Sergeyevich — ▪ Russian author Introduction born October 28 [November 9, New Style], 1818, Oryol, Russia died August 22 [September 3], 1883, Bougival, near Paris, France Russian (Russian literature) novelist, poet, and playwright, whose major works include… …
67W. H. Auden — Infobox Person image size = 144 caption = U.S. Library of Congress birth date = #ifeq:yes|yes|2|2 21 1907 birth place = York, England death date = #ifeq:yes|yes|9|9 29 1973 (aged age at date | 1907 | 2 | 21 | 1973 | 9 | 29 ) death place = Vienna …
68To Autumn — Illustration for To Autumn by William James Neatby, from A Day with Keats, 1899 To Autumn is a poem by English Romantic poet John Keats (31 October 1795 – 23 February 1821). The work was composed on 19 September 1819 and publishe …
69Symphony No. 8 (Penderecki) — The Symphony No. 8 Lieder der Vergänglichkeit (Songs of Transience) by Krzysztof Penderecki is a symphony in twelve relatively short movements set to nineteenth and early twentieth century German poems. The work was completed and premiered in… …
70Lucian — /looh sheuhn/, n. 1. A.D. 117 c180, Greek rhetorician and satirist. 2. ( Lucian of Antioch ; Lucian the Martyr ) A.D. c240 312, theologian and Biblical critic, born at Samosata, in Syria. 3. a male given name. * * * or Lucianos Latin Lucianus… …
