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Decadents
Group of poets of the end of the 19th cent., incl. some French Symbolists (see Symbolist movement), notably S. Mallarmé and P. Verlaine, and the later generation of England's Aesthetic movement (see Aestheticism), notably A. Symons and O. Wilde. Many nonpoets, incl. the novelist J.-K. Huysmans and the artist A. Beardsley, are also often associated with the Decadents. The Decadents emphasized art for art's sake, seeing it as autonomous and opposed to nature and to the materialistic preoccupations of industrialized society, and therefore stressed the bizarre, incongruous, and artificial in both their work and their lives.
Decapolis
League of 10 ancient Greek cities, incl. Damascus, in E Palestine. It was formed after the Roman conquest in 63 BC for mutual protection against their Semitic neighbors. The name also denotes the roughly contiguous territory formed by these cities, all but one of which lay east of the Jordan River. Subject to the Roman governor of Syria, the league survived until the 2nd cent. AD.
decathlon
Composite athletic contest that consists of ten different track-and-field competitions: the 100-, 400-, and 1,500-m runs, the 110-m high hurdles, the javelin and discus throws, shot put, pole vault, high jump, and long jump. Introduced as a three-day event at the 1912 Olympic Games, it later became a two-day event. Competitors are scored according to a table established by the International Amateur Athletic Federation. Decathloners are often regarded as the finest all-around athletes in the world.
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