Resultados para "Antigone" en Novela histórica

Das Schiff lief an und die Zöllner kamen mit ihren Tafeln in der Hand an Bord. Auf dem Kai bildeten römische Soldaten ein Eisengitter um den ungeheuren Pöbelauflauf, der den ganzen Platz zwischen der Stadt und dem Hafen ausfüllte. Es war ein Haufen in Lumpen gekleideter oder nackter Männer und Weiber - von denen mehrere an den schlaffen Brüsten Säuglinge hielten - mit abgezehrten Mienen, brennenden, eingesunkenen Augen und knöchernen Armen, die sie drohend erhoben, während von allen Seiten her die Rufe erschollen: „Brot, Brot!”

The mythical Greek king, Oedipus, is no stranger to tragedy. As a baby, he is left to die on the mountainside of Thebes by his royal parents after the Oracle of Delphi prophesies that he will kill his father and marry his mother. Pitied by the shepherd tasked with leaving him, Oedipus is given to another royal family and grows up ignorant of his past as a foreign prince. Returning to Thebes by chance many years later, he defeats the Sphinx terrorising the city by answering her riddle and becomes king. From here on a series of tragic events begin to unfurl.

The earliest surviving works of ancient Greek literature, dating back to the early Archaic period, are the two epic poems the Iliad and the Odyssey. These two epics, along with the Homeric Hymns and the two poems of Hesiod, Theogony and Works and Days, comprised the major foundations of the Greek literary tradition that would continue into the Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman periods. This carefully selected collection contains: The Odyssey ; The Works and Days ; Theogony ; The Complete Poems of Sappho ; Medea ; Antigone ; Agamemnon ; The Choephori ; Eumenides.