Curated category
Allegory
- Moby-DickHerman Melville signed on as a green hand for the maiden voyage of the whaler Acushnet on the 30th of December 1840. This five-year journey provided the raw…
- Divine ComedyIn the spring of 1300, Dante Alighieri stood at thirty-five years old in a dark wood, lost and unable to find the straight way to salvation.
- AtlantisPoseidon carved the mountain where his love dwelt into a palace and enclosed it with three circular moats of increasing width, varying from one to three…