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A passage of diverse heroics and distant perseverance in quest of the Golden Fleece is with transcendent narrative and canonic rhythm in the Argonautica recounted....

Aristotle's assertion that in Greek tragedy there is no loftier work than Oedipus the King cannot be lightly contradicted....

There is no drama where the total multiplicity of horror in defeat is more cogently presented than in The Persians by Aeschylus....

Cato, the enemy of Caesar, escaped with other Roman senators and remnant legions from the battle of Pharsalus to the Libyan coast, where again Caesar defeated them....

This historical drama maintains the classical form of tragedy in English, with seven scenes of dialogue and seven choral performances....

In 1580, the new Lord Deputy of Ireland, Lord Arthur Grey de Wilton, came to Dublin with 3000 troops to end the Desmond Rebellion....

James Burbage, the founder of the Lord Chamberlain's Men, Shakespeare's acting company, is countered by Lady Elizabeth Russell when he constructs a theatre....

In diverse financial scrimmages, Jay Gould and his adversaries fought to survive and prosper in the difficult markets of the early 1880s....

Rodrigo Lopez, former physician to Queen Elizabeth, and his supposed accessories are questioned in the Tower on the charge of treason....

Rodrigo Lopez gave offense to the Earl of Essex by revealing his ailments at a feast to both Don Antonio, the deposed king of Portugal, and Antonio Perez....

In the early 1870s Henry Clay Frick, bred in the coal-lands of western Pennsylvania, foresaw the importance of coke in the Bessemer or Kelly process of steel-making....

This drama is part of the Gouldium, a series of plays on the life and times of Jay Gould....

Jay Gould returns to Colorado in a second attempt to combine the Kansas Pacific Railroad and her extensions with the Union Pacific....

Holding the Presidency of Erie Railway, Jay Gould fought against an insurgent board of directors that sought his dismissal....

The longer that Jay Gould was chief shareholder of Union Pacific, the more advancements for the railroad and for his own system of roads he procured....

1844 maxims of rhythmic justice and assertive rhyme, carried forward in the cause of human dissimilarity upon competitive pretensions for rewards, merciless poetry manifest....

Jay Gould sought to yoke a corner on the gold market in August and September, 1869. His endeavor came to a head on September 24....

The drama is framed like a Sophoclean tragedy, with seven scenes of dialogue and seven choral episodes of New York reporters....

1476 couplets contrast the outsiders of the state with the insiders of particular societies of American commerce....

In the 1870's, almost all capital for major mines in California and other western territories was centered in San Francisco, where a chief bank officer pursued investments....