Arkady Isaakovich Raikin: …Moscow and reopened as the Satirikon theatre.

Thomas Dekker: …on Jonson in the play Satiro-mastix (produced 1601). Thirteen more plays survive in which Dekker collaborated with such figures as Thomas Middleton, John Webster, Philip Massinger, John Ford, and William Rowley.

Blossius Aemilius Dracontius: …poems reappears in his elegiac Satisfactio, a plea for pardon addressed to Gunthamund during his imprisonment, and is evident even in his most religious poem, De laudibus dei. This last poem, considered his most important work, comprises 2,327 hexameters in three books: Book I describes the Creation and Fall and…

metalogic: Logic and metalogic: …all possible worlds) and of satisfiability (or having a model—i.e., being true in some particular interpretation). Hence, the completeness of a logical calculus has quite a different meaning from that of a formal system: a logical calculus permits many sentences such that neither the sentence nor its negation is a…

“It’s All Right”: Chicago Soul: …for their epochal single “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction.”

metalogic: Logic and metalogic: …all possible worlds) and of satisfiability (or having a model—i.e., being true in some particular interpretation). Hence, the completeness of a logical calculus has quite a different meaning from that of a formal system: a logical calculus permits many sentences such that neither the sentence nor its negation is a…

P versus NP problem: …Stephen Cook proved that the satisfiability problem (a problem of assigning values to variables in a formula in Boolean algebra such that the statement is true) is NP-complete, which was the first problem shown to be NP-complete and opened the way to showing other problems that are members of the…

Herbert A. Simon: …is the concept of “satisficing” behaviour—achieving acceptable economic objectives while minimizing complications and risks—as contrasted with the traditional emphasis on maximizing profits. Simon’s theory thus offers a way to consider the psychological aspects of decision making that classical economists have tended to ignore.

decision making: Satisficing and bounded rationality: …Simon labeled this process “satisficing” and concluded that human decision making could at best exhibit bounded rationality. Although objective rationality leads to only one possible rational conclusion, satisficing can lead to many rational conclusions, depending upon the information available and the imagination of the decision maker.

Gaganyaan: Gaganyaan will launch from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota on top of the Human Rated Launch Vehicle (HRLV), a version of India’s most powerful rocket, the Launch Vehicle Mark III (LVM3) that has been modified for crewed spaceflight.

Tekezē River, river, major tributary of the Atbara River, itself a tributary of the Nile. It rises near Lalībela, Ethiopia, and flows in a deep ravine, north and then west, where it forms part of the border between Ethiopia and Eritrea, to enter Sudan below Om Hajer. It joins the Atbara River 35

Indian philosophy: The nature, origin, and structure of the world (prakriti): …of causality known as the satkaryavada, according to which an effect is implicitly pre-existent in its cause prior to its production. This latter doctrine is established on the ground that if the effect were not already existent in its cause, then something would have to come out of nothing. The…

Jainism: Canonical and commentarial literature: …two works in Prakrit: the Karmaprabhrita (“Chapters on Karma”), also called Shatkhandagama (“Scripture of Six Sections”), and the Kashayaprabhrita (“Chapters on the Kashayas”). The Karmaprabhrita, allegedly based on the lost Drishtivada text, deals with the doctrine of karma and was redacted by Pushpadanta and Bhutabalin in the mid-2nd century; the…

Satna, city, northeastern Madhya Pradesh state, central India. It is situated about 25 miles (40 km) west of Rewa in an upland area on the Tons River, a tributary of the Ganges (Ganga) River. The city served as the headquarters of the British political agent in the historic region of Baghelkhand.

Satnami sect, any of several groups in India that have challenged political and religious authority by rallying around an understanding of God as satnam (from Sanskrit satyanaman, “he whose name is truth”). The earliest Satnamis were a sect of mendicants and householders founded by Birbhan in

Sakurada Jisuke I was a kabuki dramatist who created more than 120 plays and at least 100 dance dramas. After completing his studies with Horikoshi Nisōji in 1762, Sakurada moved to Kyōto to write plays for a theatre there. On his return to Edo three years later he became chief playwright at the

Satō Eisaku was the prime minister of Japan between 1964 and 1972, who presided over Japan’s post-World War II reemergence as a major world power. For his policies on nuclear weapons, which led to Japan’s signing of the Treaty on the Non-proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, he was awarded (with

Satō Haruo was a Japanese poet, novelist, and critic whose fiction is noted for its poetic vision and romantic imagination. Satō came from a family of physicians with scholarly and literary interests. He entered Keiō University in Tokyo to study with the novelist Nagai Kafū in 1910, but he had

graphic design: Postwar graphic design in Japan: …emerged in the work of Satō Kōichi, who from the 1970s created an otherworldly, metaphysical design statement. He used softly glowing blends of colour, richly coloured and modulated calligraphy, and stylized illustrations to create poetic visual statements that ranged from contemplative quietude to celebratory exuberance. For example, in his poster…

Satō Nobuhiro was a scientist and an early advocate of Westernization in Japan. He favoured the development of an authoritarian type of government based on Western science and political institutions. Satō was born into a family of agricultural and mining specialists. At an early age he attempted to

Kishi Nobusuke was a statesman whose term as prime minister of Japan (1957–60) was marked by a turbulent opposition campaign against a new U.S.–Japan security treaty agreed to by his government. Born Satō Nobusuke, an older brother of future prime minister Satō Eisaku, he was adopted by a paternal

Saigyō was a Japanese Buddhist priest-poet, one of the greatest masters of the tanka (a traditional Japanese poetic form), whose life and works became the subject matter of many narratives, plays, and puppet dramas. He originally followed his father in a military career, but, like others of his

seahorse: …from Indonesia to Vanuatu, and Satomi’s pygmy seahorse (H. satomiae), found in the tropical Indian and Pacific Oceans from the Bay of Bengal to the Coral Sea—are less than 2 cm long. The largest species, the big-bellied seahorse (H. abdominalis), which inhabits the waters off South Australia and

sator square, early Latin word puzzle or cryptogram. It is the most well-known example of a lettered magic square, with 25 letters that make up a five-by-five grid of acrostic Latin palindromes. The words found in a sator square are SATOR (“sower” or “planter”), AREPO (an unknown word, possibly a

sator square, early Latin word puzzle or cryptogram. It is the most well-known example of a lettered magic square, with 25 letters that make up a five-by-five grid of acrostic Latin palindromes. The words found in a sator square are SATOR (“sower” or “planter”), AREPO (an unknown word, possibly a

Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén: Sátoraljaújhely, just north of Sárospatak, is a commercial centre with Baroque houses and a Piarist church dating from about the 13th century. In the southwest of the county is the Matyó area, centred on Mezőkövesd, where quaint ornate local costumes survive. On the Mohi lowlands,…

Satori, in Zen Buddhism of Japan, the inner, intuitive experience of Enlightenment; Satori is said to be unexplainable, indescribable, and unintelligible by reason and logic. It is comparable to the experience undergone by Gautama Buddha when he sat under the Bo tree and, as such, is the central

gnosticism: Adversus haereses: …those of Simon Magus, Menander, Satornil (or Saturninus) of Antioch, Basilides, Carpocrates, Marcellina, Cerinthus, Cerdo, Marcion of Sinope, Tatian, and the Ebionites.

Satoshi Nakamoto is the presumed pseudonym used by the person (or persons) who helped develop the first Bitcoin software and introduced the concept of cryptocurrency to the general public via the paper “Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System” (2008). Nakamoto was the first to solve the

Satpura Range, range of hills, part of the Deccan plateau, western India. The hills stretch for some 560 miles (900 km) across the widest part of peninsular India, through Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh states. The range, the name of which means “Seven Folds,” forms the watershed between the

Assam: Cultural life: …religious centers, such as the satra (seat of a religious head known as the satradhikar) and namghar (prayer hall). Satras, which are also centers of performing arts, have been looking after the religious and social well-being of the people since the 15th century. The first satra was founded in Majuli,…

satrap, provincial governor in the Achaemenian Empire. The division of the empire into provinces (satrapies) was completed by Darius I (reigned 522–486 bc), who established 20 satrapies with their annual tribute. The satraps, appointed by the king, normally were members of the royal family or of

Marjane Satrapi is an Iranian artist, director, and writer whose graphic novels explore the gaps and junctures between Iran and the West. She lives in Paris. Satrapi was born in Rasht, Iran, in 1969. An only child, she moved with her father, an engineer, and her mother, a clothing designer, to

Ariobarzanes: …about 366, led the unsuccessful revolt of the satraps of western Anatolia against the Persian king Artaxerxes II (reigned 404–359/358 bc).

Satsaṅg, in Sikhism, “the assembly of true believers,” a practice that dates back to the first Gurū of the religion, Nānak. While not unique to Sikhism, the convention of gathering together and singing the compositions of the Gurū was understood in peculiarly Sikh terms, at first as a sign of

Lake Chūzenji, lake, lying within Nikkō National Park, Tochigi ken (prefecture), north-central Honshu, Japan. It is situated at an elevation of 4,163 feet (1,269 metres) and has a surface area of about 4.6 square miles (11.8 square km). Lake Chūzenji is a resort site noted for its shrines,

Satsuma, Japanese feudal domain (han) in southern Kyushu noted for its role in Japan’s modernization. Satsuma (part of modern-day Kagoshima prefecture) was ruled by the Shimazu family from the end of the 12th century to the Meiji Restoration in 1868. In 1609 the family had conquered the Ryukyu

pottery: Stoneware and earthenware: …popular under the name of Satsuma and was copied avidly at Worcester and elsewhere (see below Japan: 19th and 20th centuries).

education: The conservative reaction: Following the repression of the Satsuma Rebellion, a samurai uprising in 1877, Japan again forged ahead toward political unity, but there was an increasing trend of antigovernment protest from below, which was epitomized by the Movement for People’s Rights. Because of the Satsuma Rebellion, the government faced serious financial difficulties.…

Italian literature: Fiction at the turn of the 21st century: ” The Sardinian Salvatore Satta, for example, was a professor of law whose considerable literary production—his best-known novel is Il giorno del giudizio (1979; The Day of Judgement)—was not revealed until after his death. Meanwhile, Stefano D’Arrigo was being supported by publisher Arnoldo Mondadori to compose his ambitious…

Sattahip, port, south-central Thailand. It lies on the northern Gulf of Thailand coast, at the head of a small bay protected by Phra Island. It was developed as a naval base in 1920–23 and continued to serve predominantly military purposes in the 1970s. It is linked to Bangkok by river and by a

Rajgir Hills: Sattapanni cave, which has been identified with a number of sites on Baibhar Hill and with the Sonbhandar cave at its foot, was the site of the first Buddhist synod (543 bce) to record the tenets of the faith. The Sonbhandar cave is now believed…

Bangladesh: Bangladesh since independence: Meanwhile, the civilian vice president, Abdus Sattar, was confirmed as president by a nationwide election in 1981, but he was ill, and real power was exercised by Lieut. Gen. Hussein Mohammad Ershad and a National Security Council. On March 24, 1982, Ershad ejected Sattar and took over as chief martial-law…

South Asian arts: The short lyric: …Hāla under the name of Sattasaī (“The Seven Hundred”), tends to be simpler in imagery and in the emotion portrayed than their Sanskrit counterparts, but essential differences are difficult to pinpoint.

Samkhya: …expansiveness; and the highest is sattva (“goodness”), which is illumination, enlightening knowledge, and lightness. To these correspond personality types: to tamas, that of the ignorant and lazy person; to rajas, that of the impulsive and passionate person; and to sattva, that of the enlightened and serene person.

Satu Mare, județ (county), northwestern Romania. The county is bounded on the north by Ukraine and on the west by Hungary. It consists mostly of rolling hills and is drained northwestward by the Someș River and its tributaries. Satu Mare city is the county capital and has industries that produce

Satu Mare, city, northwestern Romania. It lies on the northeastern fringe of the Great Hungarian Plain, on the right bank of the Someș River, 8 miles (13 km) east of the Hungarian border and 17 miles (27 km) south of the Ukrainian border. Legend indicates it was founded by boatmen carrying salt

Satun, town, southern Thailand, on the Malay Peninsula. Satun remains a small community at the end of a branch road; its shallow coastal waters are unsuitable for port development. The area in which Satun is situated was historically part of Kedah state (now in Malaysia). It includes several

Nowruz: Practice of Nowruz: …commemorating the dead; and the Satum, prayers recited at funeral feasts. Throughout the day, Parsis greet one another with the rite of hamāzor, in which one’s right hand is passed between the palms of another. Words of greeting and good wishes are then exchanged.

Satun, town, southern Thailand, on the Malay Peninsula. Satun remains a small community at the end of a branch road; its shallow coastal waters are unsuitable for port development. The area in which Satun is situated was historically part of Kedah state (now in Malaysia). It includes several

Gaius Lucilius: …to the existing formless Latin satura (meaning “a mixed dish”) the distinctive character of critical comment that the word satire still implies.

stagecraft: Dimmers: A saturable core dimmer uses a small DC current to magnetize an iron core through which AC current flows. As the level of magnetism increases, the conductivity of the core also increases; more AC load current is thus able to pass through it, and any lights…

navigation: The gyromagnetic compass: In one such arrangement, a saturable-inductor compass (so named because of its use of materials that can be readily induced to carry a maximum magnetic flow, or magnetic saturation) is mounted on a gyroscope, but this is not always convenient from the point of view of size and weight.

Quintus Ennius: In the Saturae (Satires) Ennius developed the only literary genre that Rome could call its own. Four books in a variety of metres on diverse subjects, they were mostly concerned with practical wisdom, often driving home a lesson with the help of a fable. More philosophical was a…

Marcus Terentius Varro: …stature, best known for his Saturae Menippeae (“Menippean Satires”). He was a man of immense learning and a prolific author. Inspired by a deep patriotism, he intended his work, by its moral and educational quality, to further Roman greatness. Seeking to link Rome’s future with its glorious past, his works…

saturated fat, a fatty acid in which the hydrocarbon molecules have a hydrogen atom on every carbon and thus are fully hydrogenated. (By way of comparison, the hydrocarbon molecules of unsaturated fats have two carbons that share double or triple bonds and are therefore not completely saturated

hydrocarbon: Alkanes are described as saturated hydrocarbons, while alkenes, alkynes, and aromatic hydrocarbons are said to be unsaturated.

saturated fat, a fatty acid in which the hydrocarbon molecules have a hydrogen atom on every carbon and thus are fully hydrogenated. (By way of comparison, the hydrocarbon molecules of unsaturated fats have two carbons that share double or triple bonds and are therefore not completely saturated

saturated fat, a fatty acid in which the hydrocarbon molecules have a hydrogen atom on every carbon and thus are fully hydrogenated. (By way of comparison, the hydrocarbon molecules of unsaturated fats have two carbons that share double or triple bonds and are therefore not completely saturated

hydrocarbon: Alkanes are described as saturated hydrocarbons, while alkenes, alkynes, and aromatic hydrocarbons are said to be unsaturated.

felsic and mafic rocks: …minerals and rocks as oversaturated, saturated, or undersaturated with respect to silica. Felsic rocks are commonly oversaturated and contain free quartz (SiO2), intermediate rocks contain little or no quartz or feldspathoids (undersaturated minerals), and mafic rocks may contain abundant feldspathoids. This broad grouping on the basis of mineralogy related to…

colour: The nature of colour: …precisely specified by its hue, saturation, and brightness—three attributes sufficient to distinguish it from all other possible perceived colours. The hue is that aspect of colour usually associated with terms such as red, orange, yellow, and so forth. Saturation (also known as chroma or tone) refers to relative purity. When…

saturation, any of several physical or chemical conditions defined by the existence of an equilibrium between pairs of opposing forces or of an exact balance of the rates of opposing processes. Common examples include the state of a solution left in contact with the pure undissolved solute until no

carpet bombing, devastating bombing attack that seeks to destroy every part of a wide area. Some military strategists characterize “carpet bombing” as an emotional term that does not describe any actual military strategy. However, Article 51 of Geneva Protocol I prohibits bombardment that treats a

television: Controls: If the saturation control is turned to the “off” position, no colour difference action will occur and the reproduction will appear in black and white. As the saturation control is advanced, the colour differences become more accentuated, and the colours become progressively more vivid.

saturation deficit, an index of humidity typically characterized by the difference between the saturation vapour pressure and the actual vapour pressure of a volume of air. The index has the particular utility of being proportional to the evaporation capability of the air. It is sometimes conveyed

ocean acidification: Physiological and ecological effects: …a boundary called the “saturation horizon.” Above this boundary there are enough carbonates present in the water to support coral communities. In midlatitude waters and in waters closer to the poles, many so-called cold-water coral communities are found at depths that range from 40 to 1,000 metres (about 130…

spectroscopy: Techniques for obtaining Doppler-free spectra: … of France, is known as saturation spectroscopy (see Figure 2). Here an intense monochromatic beam of light is directed into the sample gas cell. If the frequency spread of the light is much less than the Doppler-broadened absorption line, only those atoms with a narrow velocity spread will be excited,…

hydrosphere: Water vapour and precipitation: The equilibrium, or saturation, water vapour pressure of a saturated solution of sodium chloride is 22 percent lower than that of pure water. Precipitable water vapour has, on the average, a vapour pressure of 0.0025 atmosphere, which amounts to 15 percent of the saturation vapour pressure. The ratio…

radiation measurement: Ion chambers: …marks the onset of the ion-saturation region, where the current no longer depends on applied voltage; this is the region of operation normally chosen for ion chambers. Under these conditions the current measured in the external circuit is simply equal to the rate of formation of charges in the gas…

magnetism: Induced and permanent atomic magnetic dipoles: …field, the magnetization approaches a saturation value.

Carmen Herrera: …an austere white field, and Saturday (1978), a jet-black canvas interrupted by a thick gold zigzag. She also demonstrated an interest in pushing beyond painting’s traditional structural limitations. Since her days in Paris, she had experimented with nonrectangular canvases, and she played with dimensionality in works such as Amarillo (1971),…

Ian McEwan: Dalloway (1925) is evident in Saturday (2005), a vivid depiction of London on February 15, 2003, a day of mass demonstrations against the incipient war in Iraq. On Chesil Beach (2007; film 2017) describes the awkwardness felt by two virgins on their wedding night. Climate change is the subject of…

Saturday, seventh day of the week

Alexander McCall Smith: …for the Traditionally Built (2009), The Saturday Big Tent Wedding Party (2011), The Minor Adjustment Beauty Salon (2013), The Handsome Man’s De Luxe Café (2014), The Woman Who Walked in Sunshine (2015), The House of Unexpected Sisters (2017), To the Land of Long Lost Friends (2019), and The Joy and…

Rock and radio in the United Kingdom: …Broadcasting Corporation’s (BBC’s) Light Programme: Saturday Club and Sunday morning’s Easy Beat. Both were presented by the avuncular Brian Matthew and blighted by a bewilderingly broad musical base and an imbalance between studio sessions and recorded music. The restriction on records played was a result of the “needle time” agreement…

William Faulkner: The major novels: …popular—and well-paying—magazines as Collier’s and Saturday Evening Post. Greater, if more equivocal, prominence came with the financially successful publication of Sanctuary, a novel about the brutal rape of a Southern college student and its generally violent, sometimes comic, consequences. A serious work, despite Faulkner’s unfortunate declaration that it was written…

Halloween takes place on Oct. 31, regardless of the day of the week the holiday falls on. According to tradition, children in the United States (often accompanied by parents and pets) dress up in costumes and go door-to-door in their neighborhoods, saying “trick or treat” to receive candy. Some

Charlotte Mew: title, Saturday Market), was praised for its natural, direct language, including Wessex country dialect. The title poem and “Madeleine in Church”—in which a prostitute addresses the Virgin Mary—are noted for their then avant-garde conversational rhythms. The Rambling Sailor (1929), a posthumous collection of 32 previously uncollected…

Alan Sillitoe: …on his first published novel, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958; filmed 1960). It was an immediate success, telling the story of a rude and amoral young labourer for whom drink and sex on Saturday night provide the only relief from the oppression of the working life.

Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, British film drama, released in 1960, that is one of the best of the Angry Young Men movies that emanated from England in the late 1950s and ’60s. In his first starring role, Albert Finney played a charismatic man who seems destined to follow in his parents’ and

Saturday Night Fever, American musical-drama film, released in 1977 and starring John Travolta, about a young Brooklynite who escapes his dead-end working-class life and family frustrations through disco dancing. The movie, written by Norman Wexler and directed by John Badham, was a critical and

the Bee Gees: Saturday Night Fever: …soundtrack album for the film Saturday Night Fever (1977) that would popularize and in many ways define disco. The soundtrack earned several Grammys, including album of the year. The single “How Deep Is Your Love” won the Grammy for best pop vocal performance by a group. Besides writing their own…

Clara Bow: …lost), Dangerous Curves (1929), and The Saturday Night Kid (1929).

Saturday Night Live (SNL), American sketch comedy and variety television series that has aired on Saturday nights on the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) network since 1975, becoming one of the longest-running programs in television. The series is a fixture of NBC programming and a landmark in

United States: The Watergate scandal: This “Saturday night massacre” of Justice Department officials did not, however, stem the flow of damaging revelations, confessions, and indictments.

John Ciardi: …as poetry editor of the Saturday Review from 1956 to 1972. He felt that interaction between audience and author was crucial, and he generated continuous controversy with his critical reviews. He was a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Institute of Arts and Letters.

George Bernard Shaw: Early life and career: …by Frank Harris to the Saturday Review as theatre critic (1895–98); in that position he used all his wit and polemical powers in a campaign to displace the artificialities and hypocrisies of the Victorian stage with a theatre of vital ideas. He also began writing his own plays.

Finnish literature: Literature in Swedish: …centred on the Lördagssällskapet (Saturday Society), a group of young men that counted among its members, in addition to Runeberg, Johan Vilhelm Snellman, Zacharias Topelius, and, as an occasional guest, Elias Lönnrot. Although writing in Swedish, members of the Saturday Society were conscious of creating a culture and a…

Vincent Sherman: Early work: Saturday’s Children (1940) was a step up, a serious drama based on a Maxwell Anderson play; John Garfield and Anne Shirley starred as struggling newlyweds. Sherman explored various genres with his next films. The Man Who Talked Too Much (1940) was a courtroom drama, and…

Maxwell Anderson: Saturday’s Children (1927), about the marital problems of a young couple, was also very successful. Anderson’s prestige was increased by two ambitious historical dramas in verse—Elizabeth the Queen (1930) and Mary of Scotland (1933)—and by a success of a very different nature, his humorous Pulitzer…

savory: The most-common culinary species is summer savory (Satureja hortensis), an annual shrubby herb that grows well in warm climates. The square stems are covered with fine trichomes (plant hairs) and are sometimes tinged with purple. The linear gray-green leaves are arranged oppositely and are about 2.5 cm (1 inch) in…

savory: Winter savory, or dwarf savory (S. montana), is a smaller perennial subshrub that flowers in winter. It is used for culinary purposes almost interchangeably with the summer species.

savory, (genus Satureja), genus of about 30 species of aromatic herbs of the mint family (Lamiaceae). Savory is native to Eurasia and North Africa and is cultivated in many climates, particularly in France and Spain. The dried leaves and flowering tops of several species are used to flavour many

savory: The most-common culinary species is summer savory (Satureja hortensis), an annual shrubby herb that grows well in warm climates. The square stems are covered with fine trichomes (plant hairs) and are sometimes tinged with purple. The linear gray-green leaves are arranged oppositely and are about 2.5 cm (1 inch) in…

Saturia–Manikganj Sadar tornado, catastrophic tornado that struck the Manikganj district of Bangladesh on April 26, 1989. Causing approximately 1,300 fatalities, it was likely the deadliest tornado in recorded history. The tornado struck at around 6:30 pm local time and moved east from the

Takht-e Soleymān, ancient city and Zoroastrian temple complex of Iran’s Sāsānian dynasty, subsequently occupied by other groups, including the Mongol Il-Khanid dynasty. It is located in northwestern Iran in the southeastern highlands of Western Āz̄arbāyjān province, about 25 miles (40 km) northeast

Saturn, in space exploration, any of a series of large two- and three-stage vehicles for launching spacecraft, developed by the United States beginning in 1958 in connection with the crewed Apollo Moon-landing program. Saturn I, the first U.S. rocket specifically developed for spaceflight, was a

Saturn, painting by Francisco Goya completed in 1821–23. In 1819 Goya bought a house south of Madrid called the Quinta del Sordo (“Villa of the deaf man”). A previous owner of the house was deaf, and the name remained apt as Goya himself had lost his hearing in his mid-40s. The artist painted

Saturn, in Roman religion, the god of sowing or seed. The Romans equated him with the Greek agricultural deity Cronus. The remains of Saturn’s temple at Rome, eight columns of the pronaos (porch), still dominate the west end of the Forum at the foot of the Clivus Capitolinus. The temple goes back