Ergebnis gesprochen von "Carl Schwaber" in Alle Kategorien

Before the stars and moons were named after him, in a time of heroes and legends, when mortals and immortals walked the earth together, Ganymede lived. Once, he was a Prince of Troy, King among men, warrior of warriors, revered by the gods. Chosen by the greek gods, gifted with immortality. Ganymede is a man of rare beauty and charm; taken from mortal life before his time, he returns to earth in present day California, He must make a choice between finding true love and remaining immortal.

This drama follows the myth of Iphigenia at Aulis, where she is subject to human sacrifice by her father Agamemnon. He draws her and Clytemnestra, her mother, thither with a promise of marriage to Achilles. The necessities of sacrifice are both in dialogue and in choral poetry weighed and judged. This play concludes either in an epiphany of wisdom or of violence. A form for tragedy in English, distinguished by seven scenes of dialogue and seven choral performances, is established in this play.

Jay Gould, though consumption has first come forth into his lungs, purchases the sovereign share of Union Pacific, a railroad of indebted frailty, frailer becoming while rates decline throughout the West. His health and his wife's, who is more ill than he, must be avowed. How railroad men such as James J. Hill, Charles Francis Adams, Fred Ames, and Ransom Cable comport with transportive difficulties is set forth. J. P. Morgan attempts to bring the western railroads in economical accord.