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Histories (Latin: Historiae) is a Roman historical chronicle by Tacitus. Written c. 100–110, it covers c. 69–96, a period which includes the Year of Four Emperors following the downfall of Nero, as well as the period between the rise of the Flavian Dynasty under Vespasian and the death of Domitian.
Together, the Histories and the Annals amounted to 30 books. Saint Jerome refers
...2) Helen
Helen (Ancient Greek: Ἑλένη, Helenē) is a drama by Euripides about Helen of Troy, first produced in 412 BC for the Dionysia in a trilogy that also contained Euripides' lost Andromeda.
Helen receives word from the exiled Greek Teucer that Menelaus never returned to Greece from Troy, and is presumed dead, putting her in the perilous position of being available for Theoclymenus to
...3) Heracles
Herakles (Ancient Greek: Ἡρακλῆς μαινόμενος, Hēraklēs Mainomenos, also known as Hercules Furens) is an Athenian tragedy by Euripides that was first performed c. 416 BCE. While Herakles is in the underworld obtaining Cerberus for one of his labours, his father Amphitryon, wife Megara, and children are sentenced to death in Thebes by Lycus. Herakles arrives in time to save them, though the goddesses
...Iphigenia at Aulis or Iphigenia in Aulis (Ancient Greek: Ἰφιγένεια ἐν Αὐλίδι, Iphigeneia en Aulidi; variously translated, including the Latin Iphigenia in Aulide) is the last of the extant works by the playwright Euripides. Written between 408, after Orestes, and 406 BC, the year of Euripides' death, the play was first produced the following year.
The play revolves
...5) Orestes
Orestes (Ancient Greek: Ὀρέστης, Orestēs) (408 BCE) is an Ancient Greek play by Euripides that follows the events of Orestes after he had murdered his mother.
Produced more frequently on the ancient stage than any other tragedy, Orestes retells with striking innovations the story of the young man who kills his mother to avenge her murder of his father. Though eventually exonerated, Orestes becomes
...7) Hippolytus
Iphigenia in Tauris (Ancient Greek: Ἰφιγένεια ἐν Ταύροις, Iphigeneia en Taurois) is a drama by the playwright Euripides, written between 414 BC and 412 BCE.
Years before the time period covered by the play, the young princess Iphigeneia narrowly avoided death by sacrifice at the hands of her father, Agamemnon. At the last moment the goddess Artemis, to whom the sacrifice was to be made, intervened
...9) Rhesus
Rhesus (Greek: Ῥῆσος, Rhēsos) is an Athenian tragedy that belongs to the transmitted plays of Euripides, possibly written before 440 BCE. Its authorship has been disputed since antiquity. The conventional attribution to Euripides remains controversial.
In the middle of the night Trojan guards on the lookout for suspicious enemy activity sight bright fires in the Greek camp. They promptly inform Hector, who
...10) Andromache
Andromache (Ancient Greek: Ἀνδρομάχη) is an Athenian tragedy by Euripides. It dramatises Andromache's life as a slave, years after the events of the Trojan War, and her conflict with her master's new wife, Hermione. The date of its first performance is unknown. Some scholars place the date sometime between 428 and 425 BC.
Andromache has become a concubine to Achilles' son, Neoptolemus,
...11) Hecuba
13) Philoctetes
Philoctetes (Ancient Greek: Φιλοκτήτης, Philoktētēs) is a play by Sophocles. The play was written during the Peloponnesian War. It is one of the seven extant tragedies by Sophocles. It was first performed at the City Dionysia in 409 BC, where it won first prize. The story takes place during the Trojan War (after the majority of the events of the Iliad, but before the Trojan Horse). It describes the attempt
...14) The Eumenides
15) On the Heavens
Aristotle, great Greek philosopher, researcher, reasoner, and writer, born at Stagirus in 384 BCE, was the son of Nicomachus, a physician, and Phaestis. He studied under Plato at Athens and taught there (367 47); subsequently he spent three years at the court of a former pupil, Hermeias, in Asia Minor and at this time married Pythias, one of Hermeias s relations. After some time at Mitylene, in 343 2 he was appointed by King Philip of Macedon to
...La quête des signes 3
Désemparée face à la perte immense qu'elle vient de subir, Zia décide de poursuivre son long voyage initiatique malgré la peine et les obstacles. Au fur et à mesure des rencontres, des soins qu'elle prodigue avec abnégation et compassion, elle prend conscience du fabuleux héritage laissé par Lidova et réalise les attentes immenses
...La furie des eaux
La quête des signes 1
Kadmeron, un jeune chasseur-cueilleur d'Europe occidentale, se prépare à l'initiation chamanique. L'esprit du Cheval vient le prévenir pendant son sommeil d'une catastrophe imminente. Les pluies incessantes qui s'abattent sur le territoire du peuple des Saveronacs depuis des mois ont fragilisé les sols. Elles ont aussi profondément modifié les comportements des
...La Grotte des Signes
La quête des signes 5
Enfin réunis après tant d'épreuves, Zia et Kadmeron se préparent à affronter la colère du Dieu Poisson. Devant la menace d'une attaque imminente à la saison de la Renaissance, le Marteron organise la défense du village des Enfants du Soleil. L'issue de la bataille place les vainqueurs dans un cruel dilemme : faut-il –
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