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What news from the messenger from Corinth bring to Oedipus?

Establish the context (who is speaking, what is happening to whom under what circumstances, etc.) and explain the significance of the following quotation from the Aeneid (4-6 good sentences): My own fate and the deadly crimes of that Spartan whorehave plunged me in this hell. Look at the souvenirs she left me!And how we spent that last night, lost in deluded joys,you know. Remember it we must, and all too well.When the fatal horse mounted over our steep walls,its weighted belly teeming with infantry in arms—she led the Phrygian women round the city, feigningthe orgiastic rites of Bacchus, dancing, shriekingbut in their midst she shook her monstrous torch,a flare from the city heights, a signal to the Greeks.

Identify the speaker, the context, and the significance of the following quotation from the Aeneid (4-6 good sentences):   You’ve made me see my son’s death with my own eyes, defiled a father’s sight with a son’s blood.  You say you’re Achilles’ son? You lie!  Achilles never treated his enemy Priam so.  No, he honored a suppliant’s rights, he blushed to betray my trust, he restored my Hector’s bloodless corpse for burial, send me safely home to the land I rule!”

Why is Iarbas angry with Dido?

Identify the speaker, then explain the context and the significance of these lines from the Aeneid: (4-6 good sentences):    You’re running away–from me?  Oh, I pray you by these tears, by the faith in your right hand– what else have I left myself in all my pain? by our wedding vows, the marriage we began, if I deserve some decency from you now, if anything mine has ever won your heart, pity a great house about to fall, I pray you, if prayers have any place–reject this scheme of yours! Thanks to you, the Numidian warlords hate me, even my own Tyrians rise against me.

This god’s oracle is located at the “Pythian temple” in Delphi.  

This city is ridden with a plague at the beginning of Oedipus the King: there is a blight on all the crops, the women are dying in labor, and the cattle sicken and die in the pasture.

Oedipus’ brother-in-law, he brings back the news from the oracle:  “to drive out a pollution from our land,”

Honorlock Essay #2:  Provided Argument: In an essay, respond to the following prompts in this order: Step 1: Standard Form Application: Reconstruct and summarize the content of the argument in the passage above using Standard Form (P1, P2, P3…C). Make sure to properly identify the conclusion and premises first. Also make sure to express all logical operators/terms clearly.***As usual, try not to quote each sentence, word-for-word, but rather capture the general meaning of each sentence in summary. It is also preferable to separate distinct reasons given in support of the conclusion as distinct premises. ***In constructing your argument in Standard Form, also consider whether there are any suppressed/assumed premises, and add them if/as needed. Step 2: General Form Application: Maintaining the Standard Form organization, rewrite your reconstruction of the argument above in the argument’s General Form (i.e. removing all specific content, and substituting variables/capital letters in their place). Make sure to keep any logical operators/connectives in their proper place. Step 3: Composition –Paragraph 1: Identify by name the general form  –Paragraph 2: Explain in general  

A. Jak se to řekne anglicky? 1. vepřové maso: [food1] 2. knedlíky: [food2] 3. zelí: [food3] B. Jak se to řekne česky?    á  é  ě  í  ó  ú  ů  ý      ď  ň  ť     č  š  ř  ž  1. mushroom: [food4] 2. rice: [food5] 3. apple: [food6]