How does Aeschylus's ''Agamemnon'' relate to Greek culture? How was Euripides different from other playwrights? How is piety shown in The Iliad? How do Antigone and Creon advance the plot? What kind of plays did Euripides write? Who is Creon's unburied in "Antigone"?
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How does Virgil state that Aeneas came to Italy in the Aeneid? How did Aeschylus die? How does Ovid's Metamorphoses end? How did Agamemnon die? What happens in the Underworld in the Aeneid? How does Lepidus die in The Tragedy of Julius Caesar?
The reason that story about the Greek playwright came readily to mind when I needed it is because it’s pretty cinematic. There’s Aeschylus, strolling through a clearing in the olive grove, and he’s suddenly exposed, his bald head gleaming in the sun. Bombs away. As a bald guy, that...
Oh, it is easy for the one who stands outside the prison-wall of pain to exhort and teach the one who suffers. —Aeschylus 7 I desire only to know the truth, and to live as well as I can...And, to the utmost of my power, I exhort all other men to do the same...I exhort...
Classicists are asked this all the time, and most will answer by pointing to the cultural achievements of the Greeks: this is the language of the first great epic poetry (Homer), historians (Herodotus and Thucydides), playwrights (Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes), and philosophers ...
Museo CapitolinoAeschylus jumped to the City Dionysia as a junior. He should have stayed in school. Andrew Luck Backlash:I praised Andrew Luck for returning to Stanford rather than declaring for the NFL draft; I further called him a real student for having a B average and majoring in archite...
I’m not the only trans woman with an affinity for Cassandra, that mythological Trojan princess found in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon and Homer’s Iliad. Cursed with visions of the future that no one will believe, Cassandra is existentially gaslit and, thus, a figure ripe for all sorts of transsexua...
Who was Aeschylus in the Greek mythology? Was Cleisthenes influenced by Solon? What tactics did Socrates use to question people? Why might he have attracted so many followers? Conversely, what elements of Socrates's method might have created enemies?