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I have a sister called Atossa, who is young and good, like you. "
An Egyptian Princess — Volume 03 Georg Ebers 1867
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I have a sister called Atossa, who is young and good, like you. "
An Egyptian Princess — Volume 03 Georg Ebers 1867
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I have a sister called Atossa, who is young and good, like you. "
Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867
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I have a sister called Atossa, who is young and good, like you. "
An Egyptian Princess — Complete Georg Ebers 1867
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I have a sister called Atossa, who is young and good, like you. "
An Egyptian Princess — Volume 03 Georg Ebers 1867
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The setting is the court at Susa, where a chorus of old men and Atossa, the queen mother, wait for news of the battle.
The National Theatre of Wales does battle with Aeschylus's The Persians 2010
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Recall Atossa, the Persian queen who likely had breast cancer in 500 BC.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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The isolation and rage of a thirty-six-year-old woman with stage III breast cancer had ancient echoes in Atossa, the Persian queen who swaddled her diseased breast in cloth to hide it and then, in a fit of nihilistic and prescient fury, had a slave cut it off with a knife.
The Emperor of All Maladies Siddhartha Mukherjee 2010
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Atossa goes to the tomb of her dead husband, King Darius, and the chorus raise his ghost (the first such apparition in the history of theatre and a direct ancestor of Shakespeare's ghosts in Macbeth and Hamlet).
The National Theatre of Wales does battle with Aeschylus's The Persians 2010
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Atossa narrates a dream about two women, one in Persian, one in Greek dress.
The National Theatre of Wales does battle with Aeschylus's The Persians 2010
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