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These databases are worth perusing if you are still looking for a work of art to present. Spend some time looking through the various images for inspiration. Explore, and see the world with new eyes! Art Museum Image Gallery: This … Continue reading →

Salvador Dali’s paintings of the Inferno

Prometheus (1737) by Nicolas-Sébastien Adam

Sandro Botticelli “Chart of Hell” (c. 1480) Canto 1 in Italian Why is Virgil’s guidance vital for Dante’s journey through the Inferno?

Beowulf Manuscript (c. 1000) Beowulf read in Old English History of the English Language in Ten Minutes

Art

Medea about to Kill her Children by Eugène Delacroix 1838 The Greek Mythological figure of Medea from Wikipedia In Greek mythology, Medea was the daughter of King Aeëtes of Colchis, niece of Circe, granddaughter of the sun god Helios, and later wife to the hero Jason, … Continue reading →

For your one-page response paper, please write about Euripides’s Chorus in “Medea” and how it differs from that of Sophocles’s “Oedipus the King.”

The Ancient Greek Theatre Skene is the stage building that is background to the stage. Parodos is the side entrance for actors as well as the chorus. It is also the name of the first song sung by the chorus as … Continue reading →