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.
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How many copies of Gone with the Wind have been sold?
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Who is the unhappy Werther’s beloved in Goethe’s novel The Sorrows of Young Werther (1774)?
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To whose funeral in 1885 did Tennyson send a wreath inscribed “To the World’s Greatest Poet”?
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What was George Sand’s real name?
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What poem is the source of the title of Robert Penn Warren’s World Enough and Time (1950)?
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