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El ministerio de Jesucristo está por concluir y la bestia se ha desatado... Lo que para algunos significa la salvación, para otros no será más que la condena al sufrimiento. Al centurión Lucio Quinto Vero, se le ha encomendado capturar a un revoltoso sedicioso de nombre Yeshua; junto...

Este ebook presenta "Edipo rey” con un sumario dinámico y detallado. Edipo rey es una tragedia griega de Sófocles, de fecha desconocida que pudo ser escrita en los años posteriores a 430 a. C. La obra nos presenta a Edipo en su momento de mayor esplendor, como rey de Tebas y esposo de Yocasta....

According to Wikipedia: "Lucius Annaeus Seneca (often known simply as Senec; c. 4 BC AD 65) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, statesman, dramatist, and in one work humorist, of the Silver Age of Latin literature. He was tutor and later advisor to emperor Nero. While he was forced to commit suicide for...

The famed Athenian tragedy in which Oedipus’s own faults contribute to his tragic downfall. A great masterpiece on which Aristotle based his aesthetic theory of drama in the Poetics and from which Freud derived the Oedipus complex, King Oedipus puts out a sentence on the unknown murderer...

This Halcyon Classics ebook contains the eleven extant comedies by the ancient Athenian playwright Aristophanes.  One of the foremost of the Old Comedy playwrights, Aristophanes penned at least thirty additional works which have not survived.  Includes an active table of contents for easy...

This is the first translation into English of the verse drama Germanicus by the Afrikaans poet N.P. Van Wyk Louw. The work was based on the first three chapters of the Annales of the Roman historiographer Tacitus. After the death of Emperor Augustus, his successor Tiberius’ adopted son Germanicus...

With its inspired counterpointing of Homeric and Caribbean themes, Derek Walcott's new play, commissioned by Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company, springs from the same imaginative sources as his epic poem Omeros. Episodes of the story of Odysseus' protracted wanderings from fallen Troy to his...

THE BIRDS differs markedly from all the other Comedies of Aristophanes which have come down to us in subject and general conception. It is just an extravaganza pure and simple--a graceful, whimsical theme chosen expressly for the sake of the opportunities it afforded of bright, amusing dialogue,...

Este ebook presenta "Antígona” con un sumario dinámico y detallado. Antígona (Ἀντιγόνη en griego) es el título de una tragedia de Sófocles, basada en el mito de Antígona y representada por primera vez en 442 a. C. Antígona, personaje principal de esta obra, es también sobrina...

A brand-new translation of the world's greatest satirist. With a signature style that is at once bawdy and delicate, as well as a fearless penchant for lampooning the rich and powerful, Aristophanes remains arguably the finest satirist of all time. Collected here are all 11 of his surviving plays-newly translated by the distinguished poet and translator Paul Roche.

This book contains the following complete works about the fabulous, and fabled, city of Troy: Iphegenia, by Euripides The Iliad, by Homer, The Odyssey, by Homer The Aeneid, by Virgil The Fall of Troy, by Quintus Smyrnaeus (also known as Quintus of Smyrna) Queen Dido, by Christopher Marlowe and Thomas...

Aeschylus (525-c.456 bc) set his great trilogy in the immediate aftermath of the Fall of Troy, when King Agamemnon returns to Argos, a victor in war. Agamemnon depicts the hero's discovery that his family has been destroyed by his wife's infidelity and ends with his death at her callous hand. Clytemnestra's...

Oedipus, the blind and banished King of Thebes, has come in his wanderings to Colonus, a deme of Athens, led by his daughter Antigone. He sits to rest on a rock just within a sacred grove of the Furies and is bidden depart by a passing native. But Oedipus, instructed by an oracle that he had reached...