Alone Awake

The rest others find and the work that interrupts it

Sleep comes unevenly to a world at rest. Achilles and Dido remain awake with thoughts that others can lay aside. Marcus faces the opposite difficulty at dawn, calling himself out of bed to act. Dante prepares for his journey while other creatures leave their labors.

1. Iliad 24.1–13
2. Aeneid 4.522–532
3. Meditations 5.1.1
4. Inferno 2.1–6