What are the names of the three tragedies in Aeschylus’s Oresteia?
The names of the three tragedies in Aeschylus’s Oresteia are:
Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and The Eumenides, all first presented in 458 B.C.
The names of the three tragedies in Aeschylus’s Oresteia are:
Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and The Eumenides, all first presented in 458 B.C.
The Argonauts were the crew of the ship Argo, which sailed in quest of the Golden Fleece.
The second movie mentioned by name in Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer (1961) is The Third Man (1949), directed by Carol Reed.
The Koran existed first in oral form as a series of revelations recited by the prophet Muhammad (570-632), founder of Islam. His followers wrote down or committed to memory the individual surahs, or chapters, but these were not collected in authoritative form until about 650.
Charles Dickens wrote two historical novels: A Tale of Two Cities (1859), set in London and Paris during the French Revolution, and Barnaby Rudge (1841), set during the anti-Catholic riots sparked by Lord George Gordon in 1780.
Scylla, a female six-headed monster, captured sailors and ate them. Charybdis was a whirlpool (or a creator of whirlpools) that swallowed ships. The two creatures lay in wait on either side of the Straits of Messina between Italy and Sicily. Their story is told in Homer’s Odyssey (ninth century B.C.).
Shangri-La, the setting for James Hilton’s 1933 novel Lost Horizon supposedly has a real-life counterpart in Hunza, Pakistan. The community, which boasts of having the healthiest people in the world, many over 100 years old, is located at the borders of Pakistan, China, and the Soviet Union.