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 · Homer · ancient Greece
Continue the Odyssey: the voyage Homer didn't sing
Odysseus is home. Penelope is his, Ithaca is his — and he is restless. Homer ends the Odyssey with peace, but Tennyson knew better: 'I cannot rest from travel.' Continue: Odysseus's last voyage, the one Homer didn't sing.
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希腊罗马 · Euripides · ancient Greece
Continue Medea: after the flight
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