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Plato's The Republic is one of the most important philosophical works ever written. It is the account, as told by Socrates, of a meeting and debate between some of the greatest minds of ancient Greece ...
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War. Love. Betrayal. Revenge. These are the forces that define the Iliad, an ancient work by the Greek poet Homer. Here, Homer sings of the tense and violent days of the Trojan War, a battle of gods a ...
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The Trojan War is over. A hero longs for home. And his wife, ever faithful, longs for his return. So begins The Odyssey, Homer's epic tale of the warrior Odysseus's journey home. Although the fighting ...
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Comprised of his three most famous works, Antigone, Oedipus Rex, and Oedipus at Colonnus, Sophocles’s Oedipus Trilogy is a landmark in the history of Western drama. The gripping trilogy of plays abo ...
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Xenophon’s Anabasis is the true story of an epic conquest. In roughly 400 B.C., the Greek Army, known as the Ten Thousand, embarked on a mission to take over Persia. Xenophon, a Greek writer, went a ...
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An ancient text still relevant to this day, Aristotle’s Poetics describes the nature of all verse. As Aristotle saw it, poetry could be classified as one of three types: Tragedy, Comedy, or Epic. Of ...
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The year's divisions, bringing frost or fire. She in whose woman's breast beats heart of man. The soft repose that would mine eyelids seal. Not now by honour guided as of old. With beacon-fire of hope ...
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Once and again, I bid my father hear. I lay, though late, on this my father's grave. Stretched out to bear thee forth to burial. Made manifest as mourners? What hath chanced? Doth some new sorrow ha ...
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_The Scene of the Drama is the Temple of Apollo, at Delphi: On this her mother's shrine oracular. Phoebus, who in his own bears Phoebe's name. Unto this land and to Parnassus' shrine. The stubborn tra ...
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ADMETUS, _King of Pherae in Thessaly_. ALCESTIS, _daughter of Pelias, his wife_. PHERES, _his father, formerly King but now in retirement_. TWO CHILDREN, _his son and daughter_. A MANSERVANT _in h ...
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The Cyprian, in God's inmost halls on high. And wreck that life that lives in stubbornness. That hungereth for the praise of human kind. To more than mortal friendship consecrate! Was opened, nor need ...
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CLYTEMNESTRA, _Queen of Argos and Mycenae; widow of Agamemnon_. ELECTRA, _daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra_. ORESTES, _son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra, now in banishment_. A PEASANT, _husband ...
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As Sophocles’s ca. 442 B.C. tragedy Antigone opens, a great conflict has just come to a bloody end in Thebes. Two princely brothers — Polynices and Eteocles, the leaders of the two opposing forces ...
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Disaster has stricken the kingdom of Thebes—citizens everywhere are sick and dying of the plague. Oedipus, the Theban king, sends his brother-in-law, Creon, to seek advice from the Oracle at Delphi. ...
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SCENE. Colonus. OEDIPUS. ANTIGONE. To hear the will of strangers and to obey. Thick-fluttering song-birds make sweet melody. Here then repose thee on this unhewn stone. Thou hast travelled far to-day ...
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ORESTES, _son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra_. ELECTRA, _sister of Orestes_. CHORUS _of Argive Women_. CHRYSOTHEMIS, _sister of Orestes and Electra_. CLYTEMNESTRA. AEGISTHUS. PYLADES _appears with_ ORE ...
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_An_ Attendant. HYLLUS, _son of Heracles and Deanira_. CHORUS _of Trachinian Maidens_. _A_ Messenger. LICHAS, _the Herald_. _A_ Nurse. _An_ Old Man. HERACLES. IOLE, _who does not speak_. SCENE. Before ...
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