What was Medea’s heritage?
Medea was the Princess of Colchis and the wife of Jason, the King of Iolcus.
Her father was King Aeetes of Colchis. Medea, by Euripides, was first performed in 431 B.C.
Medea was the Princess of Colchis and the wife of Jason, the King of Iolcus.
Her father was King Aeetes of Colchis. Medea, by Euripides, was first performed in 431 B.C.
Sinbad the Sailor was an Iraqi, a merchant shipwrecked after setting sail from Basra, now Iraq. The story of his seven voyages is told in The Thousand and One Nights.
George Orwell’s real name was Eric Arthur Blair.
Bloomsday, the date on which James Joyce’s Ulysses (1922) is set, is June 16, 1904.
The name of Rochester’s house in Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre is Thornfield Hall.
Edgar Allan Poe Roderick Usher, in “The Fall of the House of Usher” (1839).
Odysseus dies in the South Pole in Nikos Kazantzakis’s The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel.