It would be amazing if Gigerenzer's German pedestrians were calling faults with something approaching Braden's accuracy, or knowing — not guessing — that the kouros was a fake. From Wordnik.com. [The Moment of Truth?] Reference
Lydian treasure from Turkey; Moche tombs of Sipán, Peru; Getty kouros. From Wordnik.com. [Stealing History] Reference
Rather, the goddess gives the kouros the tools to acquire that knowledge himself. From Wordnik.com. [Presocratic Philosophy] Reference
Take one Archaic kouros figure, add the Zeus Olympias by Pheidas, shake, and hey presto!. From Wordnik.com. [Trojan Wars: On the Big and Little Screen] Reference
The kouros himself can reach a decision or determination of the truth solely through use of his logos. From Wordnik.com. [Presocratic Philosophy] Reference
Although what the goddess tells the kouros has divine sanction (hers), that is not why he should accept it. From Wordnik.com. [Presocratic Philosophy] Reference
When I sang it on the mountain, I became a fair-haired kouros six feet tall; the sheep had always accepted this transformation. From Wordnik.com. [The Praise Singer]
Dance in the grass, drink the heady wine of freedom, lay the young buff men with kouros bodies, and some of the young women as well. From Wordnik.com. [2nd March '06] Reference
In the past, the Getty has been involved in controversial acquisitions, including a kouros (see ARCHAEOLOGY, May/June 1994) and a statue of Aphrodite purchased in 1988. From Wordnik.com. [Museum Policy Change] Reference
Among the artifacts found wrapped in plastic and hidden in crates of fresh fish were a fifth-century B.C. kouros head, 164 varied pouring vessels, and a small marble statue of Pan. From Wordnik.com. [Corinth Loot Found Under Fresh Fish] Reference
Parmenides gives us a poem in Homeric hexameters, narrating the journey of a young man (a kouros, in Greek) who is taken to meet a goddess who promises to teach him “all things”. From Wordnik.com. [Presocratic Philosophy] Reference
The kouros is similar to an over life-size one in the National Museum in Athens found in several pieces, the first in the Kerameikos more than 70 years ago, and a life-size one acquired by New York's Metropolitan Museum in 1932. From Wordnik.com. [Old Site, New Tricks] Reference
We adore your kouros-boy curls, Praxitelean torso and the "Discobolus" curve of your back. From Wordnik.com. [Austin360 - XL Headlines] Reference
Museum - as when he campaigned against the authenticity of a Greek kouros that the museum had bought and insisted for years was ancient, but came to acknowledge that maybe it wasn't. From Wordnik.com. [NYT > Home Page] Reference
Yesterday I heard the story of a much respected, widely beloved scholar who devoted 23 years of her career to improving the Getty's poor reputation in the museum world by aggressively promoting scholarship, funding conservation all over the ancient world (the Sphinx, for example, in Egypt), giving poorly-paid Greek archaeologists grants to study at the Getty institute, holding colloquia like the one to investigate the authenticity of the Getty's disputed kouros (bought before her time). From Wordnik.com. [Sharon Waxman: The Human Cost] Reference
Even a Greek kouros couldn’t rival the masterpiece before her. From Wordnik.com. [One Flight Up] Reference
Thank you in advance. panos kouros February 28, 2007 1:13 PM # | Delete. From Wordnik.com. [How to install a Blogger HTML template] Reference
Later Gladwell writes of the scholars who assessed the kouros: "They simply took a look at that statue and some part of their brain did a series of instant calculations, and before any kind of conscious thought took place, they felt something, just like the sudden prickling of sweat on the palms of the gamblers. From Wordnik.com. [The Moment of Truth?] Reference
His body was sculpted, a kouros. From Wordnik.com. [The seduction] Reference
kouros, originally uploaded by wvfonseca. From Wordnik.com. [Kouros] Reference
An inventory of them, posted on the website of Greece's Ministry of Culture (www. culture.gr), includes 271 objects: 15 marble sculptures (mostly Roman, such as a portrait of Julius Caesar, but also a head of a kouros), 2 bronze items, 6 terra-cotta sculptures (Archaic through fourth century B.C.), 50 terra-cotta figurines and reliefs (Archaic-Roman), 40 black-figured Attic vases (mostly lekythoi), 9 red-figured vases (mostly lekythoi), 25 black-glazed and black-figured vases (mostly lekythoi), 85 Corinthian vases (of a wide range of shapes), 11 Roman-Byzantine glass objects (mostly unguentaria), and 28 miscellaneous artifacts from Protogeometric pins and spindle whorls to Byzantine jewelry. From Wordnik.com. [Corinth Antiquities Returned] Reference
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