Lexicographical Neighbors of Dirke
Literary usage of Dirke
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Ancient Sculpture by Lucy Myers Wright Mitchell (1883)
"The moment chosen in the marble group is that in which the sons bind dirke to
the bull. Amphion, with his lyre by his side, holds the wildly springing brute ..."
2. Greece: Handbook for Travellers by Karl Baedeker (Firm), Karl Baedeker (1894)
"The town-spring proper was the dirke (Dirce). The ancients speak of the ...
and in fact the dirke streamlet, now called the ..."
3. A Walk in Hellas: Or, The Old in the New by Denton Jaques Snider (1882)
"New voices now float in the air; they come from gossiping washerwomen who are
still heard along dirke, invoking the nymph of the stream to aid them in the ..."
4. On imitative art, with preliminary remarks on beauty, sublimity and taste by Thomas Henry Dyer (1882)
"The subject of it is the story of dirke. Antiope, mother of Zethus and Amphion,
flying from the persecutions of dirke, had given birth to these two sons in ..."
5. Greek Life and Thought: From the Age of Alexander to the Roman Conquest by John Pentland Mahaffy (1887)
"The prolonged cruelties of dirke to her sister-in-law Antiope, whom she had made
her slave, justify, in Greek sentiment, this shocking vengeance. ..."
6. History of Ancient Art by Franz von Reber, Joseph Thacher Clarke (1902)
"The raging bull is only with difficulty held by the avenging sons; dirke, ...
The passion of the avenging sons, and the fear of dirke, make the work highly ..."
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