CH, as we called him, got involved in civil rights – he led the arts contingent for Dr. King in the March on Washington in 1963, and demonstrated outside segregated establishments in the South — at a time when “it was not fashionable, to say the least” to use his phrase, among ...
Electra by Sophocles PDF Upgrade to A+ Previous The Chorus AgamemnonCharacter Analysis Next Iphigenia Agamemnon isClytemnestra’s first husband and father toElectra,Orestes,Iphigenia, andChrysothemis. According to Greek myth, after Agamemnon offended the goddessArtemisand she stalled the winds, halting ...
CASSANDRAI, false to him, seemed prophet false to all. CHORUSNot so—to us at least thy words seem sooth. CASSANDRAWoe for me, woe! Again the agony—Dread pain that sees the future all too wellWith ghastly preludes whirls and racks my soul.Behold ye—yonder on the palace roofThe spect...
let him come with all speed, his country's fond desire, come to find at home his wife faithful, even as he left her, a watchdog of his house, loyal to him, a foe to those who wish him ill; yes, for the rest, unchanged in every part; in all this length of time never having...
Bid him give way; but issue forth commands, And trust the war to less important hands: But when, or wounded by the spear or dart, That Chief shall mount his chariot and depart: Then Jove shall string his arm, and fire his breast, ...
Another interesting point to note are the Homeric epithets; every single time the name of character is referred to a series of epithets will be quoted to describe him, such as “swift-footed” Achilles. “The dragons of Eden” (by Carl Sagan) (++): I was not yet born when the ...