The greatest of the heroic epics to emerge from medieval Germany, the Nibelungenlied is a revenge saga of sweeping dimensions. It tells of the dragon-slayer ...
Continue Reading → In Orestes, the famous Greek tragic dramatist Euripides (c. 480 BC to 406 BC) revisits the bloody history of the House of Atreus and ...
Continue Reading →The only trilogy in Greek drama that survives from antiquity, Aeschylus’ The Oresteia is translated by Robert fagles with an introduction, notes and glossary written ...
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