SCRIPTORIUM
GRECO-ROMAN
QUICK SUMMARIES
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
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.
Medea
Euripides
The sorceress Medea seeks brutal revenge on her husband, Jason, after he abandons her for the princess Glauce. After Jason's new bride and her father, King Creon, are killed by poisoned gifts from Medea, she murders her own two children to ensure Jason suffers the greatest possible pain, and escapes to Athens.