rustics
1rustics — rus·tic || rÊŒstɪk n. peasant, simple country person, hick adj. rural, of a country area; unsophisticated, unrefined; provincial, characteristic of a rural area …
2Domestic drama — expresses and focuses on the realistic everyday lives of middle or lower classes in a certain society, generally referring to the post Renaissance eras. According to the English Communications Syllabus, domestic drama refers to a dramatic story… …
3countryfolk — noun 1. people living in the same country; compatriots • Syn: ↑country people • Hypernyms: ↑citizenry, ↑people 2. people raised in or living in a rural environment; rustics • Syn: ↑country people …
4Indulis Emsis — Infobox Prime Minister name = Indulis Emsis order = Prime Minister of Latvia term start = March 9, 2004 term end = December 2, 2004 predecessor = Einars Repše successor = Aigars Kalvītis birth date = Birth date and age|1952|1|2|mf=y birth place …
5A Midsummer Night's Dream (opera) — A Midsummer Night s Dream is an opera with music by Benjamin Britten and set to a libretto adapted by the composer and Peter Pears from William Shakespeare s play, A Midsummer Night s Dream . It was premiered on 11 June 1960 at the Aldeburgh… …
6Persecution of religion in ancient Rome — As the Roman Republic, and later the Roman empire, expanded, it came to include people from a variety of cultures, and religions. The worship of an ever increasing number of deities was tolerated and accepted. The government, and the Romans in… …
7Anaxandrides — (Ἀναξανδρίδης), was an Athenian Middle Comic poet. He was victorious ten times (test. 1. 3), first in 376, according to the Marmor Parium (FGrHist 239 A 70 = test. 3). Inscriptional evidence shows that three of his victories came at the Lenaia… …
8Engaged (play) — Engaged is a three act farcical comedy by W. S. Gilbert. It premiered at the Haymarket Theatre on October 3 1877, the same year as The Sorcerer , one of Gilbert s comic operas written with Arthur Sullivan, which was soon followed by the… …
9The Truth About George — is a short story by the British comic writer P. G. Wodehouse. A part of the Mr. Mulliner series, the story was first published in 1926 in Strand Magazine , and appeared almost simultaneously in Liberty in the United States. [… …
10Theocritus — Theocritean /thee ok ri tee euhn/, Theocritan, adj. /thee ok ri teuhs/, n. fl. c270 B.C., Greek poet. * * * born с 300, Syracuse, Sicily died 260 BC Greek poet. Little is known of his life. His surviving poems consist of bucolics and mimes, set… …
