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HONORE DAUMIER.(19th-century French artist)
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March 1, 2000|
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The Phillips Collection; Washington DC; through May 14
It is hard to understate the complexity of the French artist Honore Daumier. Imagine an artist who combines the wicked poignancy of a New Yorker cartoonist, the gentle humanity of Rockwell, and the insatiable curiosity of Picasso. It seems fitting then that Daumier's life (1808-1879) and career spanned a period of both political tumult and artistic discovery, from the demise of the Bourbons to the ascendance of the Impressionists.
As a caricaturist, Daumier detailed the vagaries of the various regimes ...
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'Druids' details Celtic lifestyle
Newspaper article from: Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
; ...what a first century B.C. Greek, Posidonius, thought about the people and their...quickly discover, however, that none of Posidonius' writings have survived, so Freeman...Caesar, among others -- thought about Posidonius' findings. It is all very speculative...
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New books.(At Canaan's Edge: America in the King Years 1965-68)(The Philosopher and the Druids: A Journey Among the Ancient Celts)(The Thin Place)(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Harper's Magazine
; ...scrolls by a Syrian-born Greek philosopher and Stoic named Posidonius, who embarked by cargo ship in the first century B.C...severed heads of the many enemies of his colorful hairy hosts. Posidonius probably got there just in time; before long the Romans would...
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Wesen und Wirken der Weisheit in der Sapientia Salomonis
Magazine article from: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly
; ...examines three philosophers from the first century B.C.E.: Posidonius of Apamea, Antiochus of Ascalon, and Eudorus of Alexandria...the Wisdom of Solomon to writings from philosophers such as Posidonius of Apamea, he pays relatively little attention in chap...
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Greek Philosophers of the Hellenistic Age.
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics
; ...Chrysippus, Carneades and Philo of Larissa, Panaetius, Posidonius, and Antiochus of Ascalon. The bulk of each lecture consists...dependent on controversial source-critical assumptions. For Posidonius, Kristeller wisely prefers Edelstein-Kidd to Theiler...
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The Columbia History of Western Philosophy.(Review) (book reviews)
Magazine article from: CLIO
; ...about the Old Stoa, which the Academic Sceptics attacked. But we hear almost nothing about the Middle Stoa (Panaetius and Posidonius); and nothing at all about the Roman Stoics (Seneca, Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus)--who are barely mentioned (88...
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On the Nature of Man
Magazine article from: The Catholic Historical Review
; ...s role in the doxographical transmission chain (and particularly of works of his that are no longer extant), just as Posidonius's influence has been reduced to more realistic proportions in recent scholarship. Throughout his work Nemesius, as a bishop...
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Reason and Emotion: Essays on Ancient Moral Psychology and Ethical Theory.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics
; ...significant texts and issues in ancient moral philosophy from Socrates to Epicurus and the Stoic philosophers Chrysippus and Posidonius, and beyond" (p. xi). Cooper says that he hopes his essays are unified "both in their scope and in the natural connections...
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The secrets of the space computer that used technology a thousand years ahead of its time.(News)
Newspaper article from: Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
; ...cut differential gears fashioned from bronze. Historians think it might have been constructed by the stoic philosopher Posidonius who masterminded an ancient astronomy centre at Rhodes. But others believe the complex mathematics behind the calculator...
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MOON AND VENUS PAIR UP
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe
; ...really tried to understand what they were seeing. Those who did try were far off the mark. The ancient Greek astronomer, Posidonius (for whom a crater on the moon is now named), proposed that the moon was partly transparent, allowing a little sunlight...
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Days Like These
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...Signor Giovanni Giorgio Cesarini, where there are numberless rare antiquities, and notably the authentic busts of Zeno, Posidonius, Euripides and Carneades. He has also the portraits of the most beautiful living Roman ladies and of the Signora Clelia...
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