The Hellenistic period was a veritable cauldron of ambition, betrayal, and sheer bloodlust. It was an era marked by dramatic ...

The Ancient Greeks took their entertainment very seriously ... The three genres of drama were comedy, satyr plays, and most important of all, tragedy. Comedy: The first comedies were mainly ...

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.

Ancient Greek myths have continuously inspired both classical and modern writers, leading them to produce brilliant classic ...

as well as the reception of Greek tragedy in the Second Sophistic and in Late Antiquity, and the importance of ancient scholarship in the transmission of Greek tragic texts. 'The book as a whole is ...

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 ...

Oscar winner Brie Larson to make West End debut in Greek tragedy Elektra - Elektra, an adaptation of a Sophocles play, has ...

Brie Larson is to play Elektra in a new production of the same name next year based on the Greek tragedy written by Sophocles ...

Greece -- A valuable ancient vase gifted more than 70 years ago by the Greek government to an Italian prime minister has been voluntarily returned to Greece by the former statesman's grandson. The ...

The passage of time tends to smooth the rough edges of most legacies. Graham Arnold's time in charge of the Socceroos is just ...

Although Homer's Iliad and Odyssey belonged to an earlier tradition of oral storytelling, they greatly influenced Greek ...

Wilson, who worked hard to make what happens in his plays feel inevitable, had a lot in common with the ancient Greek ...