8 sentences with 'depicted'

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• « The painting depicted a war scene with a dramatic and visceral tone. »

• « Greek drama depicted life in human terms, even using mythological or ancient settings. »

• « Europeans became so accustomed to death that they often depicted it graphically and rather gruesomely in art. »

• « The frescoes painted on the walls of the palaces depicted elaborate athletic events with naked men leaping over charging bulls. »

• « Penelope, wife of the Greek hero Odysseus, is depicted as waiting faithfully for twenty years for Odysseus to return from the invasion of Troy despite a legion of suitors trying to win her and Odysseus' lands. »

• « As warfare is depicted in the Iliad, battles consisted of the elite noble warriors of each side facing each other and fighting face to face, with the ranks of the poorer soldiers as support, but usually not participating in actual combat. »

• « Consider the recent film adaptations of the most famous battles of the Persian War, 300 and 300: Rise of an Empire, in which the Persians are depicted as literally monstrous, ruled by a comically evil six-foot-tall king. The fact that both Sparta and Athens were slave-based societies is not part of the narratives of these films. »

• « A Roman bust of Mithridates VI sculpted in the 1st century AD. (i.e. more than a century after Mithridates was defeated) by a Roman sculptor. Here, he is depicted in the lion's headdress of Hercules - the implication being that the Romans respected his ferocity in historical retrospect, even though he had been a bitter enemy of Rome. »

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