希腊罗马 · Sophocles · ancient Greece
Continue Antigone: Creon's last night
Antigone is dead in the tomb, Haemon dead beside her, and Creon left alone with his edicts. Sophocles ends with the...
希腊罗马 · Virgil · Rome (unfinished)
Continue the Aeneid: the ending Virgil didn't write
Virgil died before finishing the Aeneid — his own instructions were to burn it. Augustus saved it, unfinished. The greatest unfinished epic of Rome ends mid-sentence, in a sense. Continue: Aeneas after the final duel.
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