poetry is suitable enough for the character ... How have the very great dramatic poets—Sophocles, or Shakespeare, or Racine—dealt with this difficulty? This is, of course, a problem which ...

A simplified retelling of Homer’s "Iliad" and "Odyssey," this version is aimed at younger readers but maintains the essence ...

One thing that I always think about is that the gods of the ancient world, if you look at them, their images, if you read about them in the Iliad, and the poetry of Sophocles..., the gods looked ...

Goethe, Sophocles, and, in a lesser degree ... We can trace the rectitude of the spiritual line in his prose and poetry alike. And there is not a great deal of difference between the "lank ...

I am an assistant head of poetry for Smith’s literary magazine ... May include: epics by Homer and Virgil; tragedies by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides; Plato’s Symposium; Dante’s Divine Comedy." ...

He was thinking about Greek playwrights like Sophocles, who wrote the Theban plays – each a stand-alone play but all… ...

Explore Gary Beck's novel CALL TO VALOR, where Marine Major Sam Hanson defies orders, faces personal tragedy, and uncovers a ...

Nathan A. Greenberg Professor of Classics Kirk Ormand specializes in researching sexuality in the ancient world, archaic ...

May include: epics by Homer and Virgil; tragedies by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides ... architecture, literature, poetry and film. It also explores how rulers have co-opted this sanctity to ...

This model of romance flows from Roman poetry, medieval chivalry and Renaissance literature ... even a danger to avoid. In the tragedies of Sophocles, when someone feels eros, typically something is ...

Before his death from lung cancer at the age of 77 (he was a lifelong smoker), he was incredibly productive, with numerous ...