Greek Tragedy
Author: Aeschylus
Agememnon is the first part of the Aeschylus’s Orestian trilogy in which the leader of the Greek army returns from the Trojan war to be murdered by his treacherous wife Clytemnestra. In Sophocles’ Oedipus Rex the king sets out to uncover the cause of the plague that has struck his city, only to disover the devastating truth about his relationship with his mother and his fa….Read More
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The Divine Comedy, Vol. 2: Purgatory
_The Divine Comedy_ is perhaps the greatest Christian classic ever written, and probably the greatest adventure story ever told. Dante wrote it to entertain, guide, and enrich ordinary readers, not… Continue Reading Posted in: Christianity, Death, Fiction, Grief & Loss Poetry, Italian Poetry, Poems
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
Alternate cover edition can be found here, here, here, hereIn the Oresteia—the only trilogy in Greek drama which survives from antiquity—Aeschylus took as his subject the bloody chain of murder… Continue Reading Posted in: Ancient & Classical Dramas & Plays, Bibliography, Drama In Greek To Ca 500 English Texts, Greek, Medieval Literary Criticism, Mythology
The Aeneid
The Aeneid – thrilling, terrifying and poignant in equal measure – has inspired centuries of artists, writers and musicians.Part of the Macmillan Collector’s Library; a series of stunning, clothbound, pocket… Continue Reading Posted in: Latin Poetry Translations Into English, Rome (Empire), Virgil
Daphnis and Chloe
A tender novel describing eager and inept young love, Daphnis and Chloe tells the story of a baby boy and girl who are discovered separately, two years apart, alone and… Continue Reading Posted in: Ancient World Historical Romance, Bibliography, Classic American Literature, Daphnis And Chloe, Fantasy Fiction
The Sixteen Satires
Perhaps more than any other writer, Juvenal (c. AD 55-138) captures the splendour, the squalor, and the sheer energy of everyday Roman life. In The Sixteen Satires he evokes a… Continue Reading Posted in: Ancient & Classical Poetry, Bibliography, Classic American Literature, Etc.), Humour, Rome (Empire), Satire
Three Plays: The Wasps / The Poet and the Women / The Frogs
The master of ancient Greek comic drama, Aristophanes combined slapstick, humour and cheerful vulgarity with acute political observations. In "The Frogs", written during the Peloponnesian War, Dionysus descends to the… Continue Reading Posted in: Ancient & Classical Dramas & Plays, Dramatists, Humor & Entertainment, Plays England 1964, Wasps (Aristophanes)
Poetics
‘The plot is the source and the soul of tragedy’In his near-contemporary account of Greek tragedy, Aristotle examines the dramatic elements of plot, character, language and spectacle that combine to… Continue Reading Posted in: Abstract Or Summary, Bibliography, Criticism And Interpretation
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