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Ravel's ever-fascinating Second Daphnis and Chloe Suite brought the whole season to a shattering conclusion.
Grande finale for the Phil's season ending; CLASSICAL French Impressions Philharmonic Hall
Paris Bordone's sumptuous Daphnis and Chloe, for example, is catalogued as 'A Pair of Lovers'.
Venetians in vogue: Simon P. Oakes applauds Nicholas Penny's catalogue of the National Gallery's later 16th-century Venetian paintings
In this case Daphnis and Chloe as choreographed by Sir Fred Ashton to Ravel's score.
culture: Mission accompished; Strictly Dancing, Birmingham Royal Ballet, Sunderland Empire until tonight
There are the dances of favourite and funny fairytale characters from The Sleeping Beauty, Sweet Kingdom's doll dances from The Nutcracker, a sensual Daphnis and Chloe pas de deux to the glorious score of Ravel, and a scene from the passionate Carmen, set to Bizet's music, among many others.
Best from the ballets
During a performance of Daphnis and Chloe, she leapt into her partner's arms, but he failed to catch her.
Survive & conquer: neither a catastrophic injury nor years without a promotion in ABT's corps could stop Elizabeth Gaither from becoming a principal--and an artist
Her early character recalls Chloe of the Greek pastoral romance, Daphnis and Chloe (Longus, c.
Dona Barbara: Cervantine or serpentine? Gallegos's recuperation of the exemplary heroine
Amyot's translations of Heliodorus' Aethiopica (1547), of Longus' Daphnis and Chloe (1559), and of Plutarch's Lives (1559) and Moralia (1572), are said to have influenced generations of French playwrights and novelists, providing them with classical material and models to imitate.
Gerald Sandy, ed. The Classical Heritage in France
Through a fragmented, episodic narrative, Craciun follows a few couples in their daily life in Romania in the 1980s and alternates these chapters with episodes that tell the legendary love of Daphnis and Chloe on the island of Lesbos in the time of antiquity.
Gheorghe Craciun. Composition aux paralelles inegales
In Tommies Bathing, a watercolor dashed off near the front, Sargent offers a military version of Daphnis and Chloe, with two naked British soldiers abandoning their pale bodies to French Impressionist sunshine on a leafy river bank in postures of either suppressed longing or postcoital bliss.
Sargent major
On the other hand, the old grammarians entirely ignored the popular Hellenistic proto-novelists such as Longus - from whose Daphnis and Chloe pastorale was born - that so influenced the Renaissance and ultimately our own literature when some of these works resurfaced.
Who killed culture?
Amyot translated seven books of the Bibliotheca historica of Diodorus Siculus in 1554, the Daphnis and Chloe of Longus in 1559, and the Moralia of Plutarch in 1572, as well as the Lives.
Amyot,Jacques
This book adds another to the small number of monographs dedicated to Longus' Daphnis and Chloe (D&C), the coy pastoral tale of growing sexual awareness which has always been the most popular of the ancient Greek novels.
Myth, Rhetoric and Fiction: A Reading of Longus's Daphnis and Chloe

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