Tuesday, March 15, 2005

Tragedy, Aeschylus: the first great tragedian

It is this last question that Aeschylus asks most insistently in his two most famous works, the Oresteia (a trilogy comprising Agamemnon, Choephoroi, and Eumenides) and Prometheus Bound (the first part of a trilogy of which the last two parts have been lost): is it right that Orestes, a young man in no way responsible for his situation, should be commanded by a god, in the name

Monday, March 14, 2005

Conemaugh Series

The Conemaugh Series overlies rocks of the Allegheny

Friday, March 11, 2005

Furniture, Middle Ages

Viollet-le-Duc, Dictionnaire raisonn� du mobilier fran�ais de l'�poque carlovingienne � la Renaissance, 6 vol. (1858 - 75), an authoritative work.