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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....

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

In San Francisco, the new Bank of California would branch itself in Virginia City, Nevada, a mining town situated on a mountain side over the Comstock Lode of silver....

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

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....

This play is one of the Gouldium, a series of dramas on the life and times of Jay Gould....

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....

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

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

As a work of English literature this audiobook should be gauged by Shakespearean measures. A voice of resolute vociferation is required to speak these couplets well....

As the southernmost line in New York State, the Erie Railroad in the 1860s ran from Jersey City to Lake Erie....

In 1863, under the instigation of his former associate, Daniel Drew, the New York State Legislature betrayed Commodore Vanderbilt, withdrawing the permit for his extension of the Harlem Railroad....

The earls of Essex and Southampton are tried together for high treason before a jury of the noblest peers....

After his disobedient return from Ireland, the Earl of Essex was kept in house arrest, first in York House, then in his own palace, Essex House....

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....