play. It is unknown exactly when he wrote it, but the play, the comedy Mélite, surfaced when Corneille brought it to a group of traveling actors in 1629...

name which derives from the Carthaginian city of that name on the island, Melite – or to the Adriatic island of Mljet, near Corfu and off the Dalmatian coast...

Poseidon is famous for his contests with other deities for winning the patronage of the city. According to legend, Athena became the patron goddess of...

from latinised or Doric forms of the ancient Greek Melítē (Μελίτη) of uncertain origin. The name Melítē—shared by the Croatian island Mljet in antiquity—literally...

(tragicomedy) 1647 Cosroès (tragedy) 1648 Pierre Corneille (1606–1684) Mélite (comedy) 1629 Clitandre (tragicomedy, later changed to tragedy) 1631 La...