Then, as he slowly realizes his error, the world crumbles around him. The three great playwrights of tragedy were Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. Aristotle argued that tragedy cleansed the ...

Aeschylus, the father of Greek tragedy, died in 456 BC ... His mantle was taken up by the playwrights Sophocles, who wrote Antigone, Oedipus at Colonus, and Oedipus Rex; and Euripides, who ...

Aeschylus. Agamemnon. ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph.D. (Greek) (Aesch. Ag.) Aeschylus. Agamemnon. ed. Robert Browning. (English) Aeschylus. Agamemnon. ed. Herbert Weir ...

La tragédie grecque à l’épreuve du Japon : de l’underground au monde . Anabases, p. 63. Adaptations of Greek tragedy are increasingly claiming our attention as a dynamic way of engaging with a ...

The ancient Greek origin of humor reveals comedy’s hidden connection to health, exemplifying that laughter really is the best medicine.

Along with its amusing study of the surly deity, Kaos reinterprets classic tales of figures such as Eurydice, Ariadne, and ...

An audience eagerly awaits outside a theatre on the outskirts of Palermo for the opening night of Greek tragedy Antigone - with a Sicilian twist. Inside, a troupe of Italian and African migrant ...

Little read in antiquity, these notes would exercise a huge influence upon the Renaissance, and on later generations of playwrights. Known as the Poetics, the notes attempt to do two things: firstly, ...

This course examines ancient Greek tragedy in translation. It looks at the transformation of myth into tragedy in the fifth century BCE and reflects on why these classical dramas remain popular today.

Hubris, or personal pride, often seems to be the cause of this demise, and thus the dangers of pride are a recurring theme throughout Greek tragedy. Of course, warnings about pridefulness aren’t ...

Brits are being encouraged to return to Rhodes with free holidays now offered to the Greek island ravaged by wildfire. Kyriakos Mitsotakis, the Greek Prime Minister, made the generous offer ...