Medea
Daughter of King Aetes of Colchis, a niece of Circe and the granddaughter of the sun god Helios
1400s
The Bacchae
Ancient Greek tragedy, written by the Athenian playwright Euripides during his final years in Macedonia, at the court of Archelaus I of Macedon
Rebecca
Rebecca appears in the Hebrew Bible as the wife of Isaac and the mother of Jacob and Esau. According to biblical tradition, Rebecca’s father was Bethuel the Aramean from Paddan Aram, also called Aram-Naharaim. Rebecca’s brother was Laban the Aramean, and she was the granddaughter of Milcah and Nahor, the brother of Abraham. Rebecca and …
Spartina
Genus of plants in the grass family, frequently found in coastal salt marshes
Company
Legal entity representing an association of people, whether natural, legal or a mixture of both, with a specific objective
The Oresteia
Trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus in the 5th century BC, concerning the murder of Agamemnon by Clytemnestra, the murder of Clytemnestra by Orestes, the trial of Orestes, the end of the curse on the House of Atreus and the pacification of the Erinyes
The Clouds
Greek comedy play written by the playwright Aristophanes
Nicomachean Ethics
Name normally given to Aristotle’s best-known work on ethics