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The House of the Tragic Poet has served as the focus of many works of fiction and poetry. Among the more famous works is Lord Edward Bulwer Lytton's The Last Days of Pompeii , in which the author invents the personal life of the owner, Glaucus, but accurately describes the house's details.
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Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo (/ uː n ə ˈ m uː n oʊ /; Spanish: [miˈɣ̞el ð̞e̞ unaˈmuno i ˈxuɣ̞o]; 29 September 1864 – 31 December 1936) was a Spanish essayist, novelist, poet, playwright, philosopher, professor of Greek and Classics, and later rector at the University of Salamanca.
Alcestis and Admetus, ancient Roman fresco (45–79 CE) from the House of the Tragic Poet, Pompeii, Italy (photo by Stefano Bolognini).. Alcestis (/ æ l ˈ s ɛ s t ɪ s /; Ancient Greek: Ἄλκηστις, Álkēstis) or Alceste, was a princess in Greek mythology, known for her love of her husband.
The show uses this is as a starting point, even if it doesn't stick to the historical record—it's more of a procedural, with each episode focused on Poët solving a different case.
His country hailed him as her sole tragic poet, and his successors in the same path of literature have regarded his bold, austere and rapid manner as the genuine model of tragic composition. [ 13 ] Besides his tragedies, Alfieri published during his life many sonnets ; five odes on American independence; one tramelogedia, ( Abele ); and the ...
CIL 4.5296 (or CLE 950) [a] is a poem found graffitied on the wall of a hallway in Pompeii.Discovered in 1888, it is one of the longest and most elaborate surviving graffiti texts from the town, and may be the only known love poem from one woman to another from the Latin world.
He was the nephew and pupil of Ennius, by whom Roman tragedy was first raised to a position of influence and dignity. In the interval between the death of Ennius (169 BC) and the advent of Accius, the youngest and most productive of the tragic poets, Pacuvius alone maintained the continuity of the serious drama, and perpetuated the character first imparted to it by Ennius.