What is the “wound”that still makes Juno angry and thus hate the Trojans?
Why does Hecuba say to Priam, “Are you insane?” during the f…
Why does Hecuba say to Priam, “Are you insane?” during the fall of Troy?
Identify the speaker, the context (what is happening to whom…
Identify the speaker, the context (what is happening to whom under what circumstances) and significance of the following quotation from Antigone: (4-6 good sentences): And you, know well you shall not live through many more swift-racing courses of the sun before you give a child of your own flesh and blood in turn, a corpse to pay for corpses, since you’ve cast below a person who belongs above, making a living soul reside within a tomb dishonorably, and keep up here a corpse belonging to the gods below, deprived of rites, of offerings, of piety.
The winged female monster that asked the riddle, “What walks…
The winged female monster that asked the riddle, “What walks on four feet in the morning, two at noon, and three at night?”
As the Trojans are bringing the horse into the city, “Four…
As the Trojans are bringing the horse into the city, “Four times it lurched to a halt / at the very brink of the gate–four times the armor / clashed out from its womb”when the horse jars to a halt. How do the Trojans respond?
What news from the messenger from Corinth bring to Oedipus?
What news from the messenger from Corinth bring to Oedipus?
Identify the speaker, the context (what is happening to whom…
Identify the speaker, the context (what is happening to whom under what circumstances) and significance of the following quotation from Oedipus the King: (4-6 good sentences): It was a prophet’s task and plainly you had no such gift of prophecy from birds nor otherwise from any god to glean a word of knowledge. But I came Oedipus, who knew nothing, and I stopped her. I solved the riddle by my wit alone. Mine was no knowledge got from birds. And now you would expel me, because you think that you will find a place by Creon’s throne. I think you will be sorry, both you and your accomplice, for your plot
How did Polyneikes, the beloved brother of Antigone, die?
How did Polyneikes, the beloved brother of Antigone, die?
What does Antigone tell the Leader about her own family line…
What does Antigone tell the Leader about her own family line?
Oedipus’ brother-in-law, he brings back the news from the or…
Oedipus’ brother-in-law, he brings back the news from the oracle: “to drive out a pollution from our land,”