GRECO-ROMAN

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Oedipus Plays

Sophocles

Oedipus, the king of Thebes, seeks truth about a plague and encounters prophecies about his mother and father. His daughter, Antigone, defies the king's orders leading to her demise and Oedipus finds sanctuary in the land of Colonus.

The Inferno

Dante Alighieri

Detailed Summary

Fictionalized Dante travels through the nine cocentric circles of Hell with Virgil. He sees souls tormented, tortured, mutilated, plagued, frozen, and punished for eternity for their sin.