Monthly Archives: March 2015
From “Brain Pickings” Blog
Salvador Dali’s paintings of the Inferno
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Nicolas-Sébastien Adam
Prometheus (1737) by Nicolas-Sébastien Adam
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Dante’s “Inferno”
Sandro Botticelli “Chart of Hell” (c. 1480) Canto 1 in Italian Why is Virgil’s guidance vital for Dante’s journey through the Inferno?
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“Beowulf”
Beowulf Manuscript (c. 1000) Beowulf read in Old English History of the English Language in Ten Minutes
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Euripides’s “Medea”
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
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Monday’s Response Paper on “Medea”
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.”
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Greek Tragedy
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
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