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The Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns (French: Querelle des Anciens et des Modernes) was a debate about literary and artistic merit that expanded from the original debaters to the members of the Académie Française and the French literary community in the 17th century.
It depicts a literal battle between books in the King's Library (housed in St James's Palace at the time of the writing), as ideas and authors struggle for supremacy. Because of the satire, "The Battle of the Books" has become a term for the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns. It is one of Swift's earliest well-known works.
Charles Perrault was born in Paris on 12 January 1628, [3] [4] to a wealthy bourgeois family and was the seventh child of Pierre Perrault (father) and Paquette Le Clerc. He attended very good schools and studied law before embarking on a career in government service, following in the footsteps of his father and elder brother Jean.
"The Liberty of Ancients Compared with that of Moderns" is an essay by Benjamin Constant, which is a transcript of a speech of the same name made at the Royal Athenaeum of Paris in 1819. [1] In the essay, Constant discusses two different conceptions of freedom: One held by "the Ancients", particularly by those in Classical Greece ; the other ...
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The war of the Seven against Thebes resulted from a quarrel between the brothers Polynices and Eteocles over the kingship of Thebes. [7] Polynices and Eteocles had been cursed by their father Oedipus, the former king of Thebes, to battle over their patrimony. The curse inexorably led to the brothers' quarrel, their killing each other, and the ...
An open-world action-adventure game set in a stylized version of ancient Greece, where players control Fenyx, a demigod on a quest to rescue the Greek gods from the titan Typhon. The date is according to the dialogue between Zeus and Prometheus from the Immortals Fenyx Rising: Story Trailer, where Zeus is shocked to learn that video games will ...
This is a list of video and pre-video (electro-mechanical) quiz arcade games. All are coin-operated arcade machines Game ...