IT is not difficult to empathise with the protesters who have of late been crowding Syntagma Square in Athens, who have been attempting to circumvent the Greek government's compliance with demands ...

A notable figure who blazed the trail for Greek tragedy was a man named Thespis. A poet and actor, Thespis began to act out individual characters by switching between different masks. In its ...

The playwright borrows elements of Greek tragedy for his story about a lesser-known king who provides defensive aid in the final stages of the siege of Troy.

First the chorus, — to the Greek always the central and perhaps most interesting element, to us presenting rather the aspect of an excrescence.

To better prepare undergraduates for life’s complexities, place tragedy front and center in humanities classes. In The Birth of Tragedy, Friedrich Nietzsche’s seminal 1872 study of the origins and ...

My late classics professor taught me that Ancient Greek tragedy dramatized different points of view, insisted on empathy, and warned against hubris. What would he have made of our current moment?

On Oct. 28, 2015, an overloaded boat filled with refugees broke up and capsized off the coast of Lesvos, a Greek island. Hundreds were thrown into the water, and dozens were killed.

Author Jeanne Carstensen details a deadly shipwreck she witnessed through accounts from survivors and rescuers alike. The post New book ‘A Greek Tragedy’ recounts harrowing shipwreck at the ...

Greek tragedy meets future in Harbor City School play Students have gotten in touch with the tragic side of the dramatic arts while putting on an updated production of "Antigone." ...