Selected World Masterpieces

• Divine Comedy is a narrative poem written by Dante Alighieri, considered the father of Italian literature, which describes Dante's journey through Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso, guided by Virgil in Inferno and Purgatorio, and Beatrice in Paradiso.
• One Thousand and One Arabian Nights is a collection of stories narrated by Scheherezade to save herself from the wrath of King Sharayar, including famous stories like Aladdin, Sinbad the Sailor, and Alibaba and the 40 Thieves.
• Pyramus and Thisbe are young lovers whose families hate each other and forbid them to get married, but their forbidding only makes them fall more deeply in love.
• Pyramus and Thisbe find a crack in the wall that separates their houses, through which they whisper and profess their love for each other.
• Pyramus and Thisbe were willing to do anything to be together, even death, and at the end of the story, their wishes are honored as their ashes are placed in the same urn.
• Orpheus, in ancient Greek legend, was a hero endowed with superhuman musical skills, whose music and grief moved Hades, king of the underworld, to allow him to take Eurydice back to the world of life and light.
• Oedipus Rex is a Greek tragedy that tells the story of King Oedipus of Thebes, who is fated to kill his father and marry his mother.
• Thebes is struck by a plague that will only be lifted if the man who killed the former king is exiled.
• The prophet Teiresias claims the murderer is Oedipus.