THE STORY SO FAR: Agamemnon was a Greek general during the Trojan War, who sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia in order to win the gods’ favor. Clytaemestra, who had been told that Iphigenia was to be married, took a lover in her grief and avenged her daughter’s murder by killing her husband. Orestes, with the involvement ...
From dreams come true to nightmares, dreams have been the impetus of nearly everyone’s actions at some point. Much has been said about dreams, and through dreams, through the years. Here are some of the very best quotes on dreams… Hope is a waking dream. —Aristotle I know how men in exile feed on dreams ...
The life of Aristophanes spanned the last half of the fifth century B.C. and extended into the fourth century B.C. The exact dates of his birth and death are not known. He was an Athenian citizen, and wrote comedies for the education and entertainment of his fellow citizens. Aristophanes wrote most of his plays during ...
The final days of Socrates are rather dramatic. He was accused of religious offenses and corrupting the youth. At his trial, he intelligently defended himself, but was condemned to death. His friends were ready to help him escape, but he decided to submit to Athenian law, and drank the hemlock. Plato gives us the contents ...
Take a journey into ancient Greece and go even farther than simply seeing their historic ruins. Step into Athens’ Archeon Gefsis (Ancient Tastes) Restaurant to experience the atmosphere and food of ancient times. After researching ancient Greek gastronomy, Archeon’s President, John Adamis has one of the most extensive libraries on that subject. His team studied ...
On “Yahoo! Answers” I came across an interesting question: Who is a modern day Antigone? This thought-provoking question was posted by a student studying the classics. The character in question was featured in several Greek tragedies including plays by Sophocles and Euripides. Antigone: Antigone is the inbred daughter of Odysseus and his mother Jocasta, and ...
Euripides’ Medea and Seneca’s Medea differ in many aspects. The one aspect that is more crucial than the others, and sets the differences between both the plays from the onset, is the characterization and motivations of Medea. Euripides sets the tone with a lone, forlorn Medea, wailing from inside her home. She cries out to ...
Most of the tragedies written by Greek authors in the fifth century before Christ have been lost, but some of the dramas of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides survive. Aeschylus, the oldest, died in 456 B.C. Sophocles and Euripides, his younger contemporaries, died a few years before the close of the Peloponnesian War in 404 B.C. ...
Phoebe is a medium-sized satellite of Saturn, NASA claims that its radius is 106.5 kilometers, which makes it considerably smaller that Titan but larger than such small chunks of rock as Pan and Daphnis. It traces a giant-size ellipse as it revolves around its mother planet. The semimajor axis of its orbit is more than ...
What comes to mind when you hear the word fortune? Is it fate, happiness, money, or luck? Maybe you think of misfortune, sadness, disaster, or losing money. Some things that come to mind when thinking of the optimistic meaning of the word are fortune cookies, fortune telling, good fortune, Fortune Magazine’s Fortune 500, family fortune, ...
