In one of the most significant discoveries related to Ancient Greek literature over the past half century, archaeologists have uncovered around 100 lines from two otherwise lost plays by the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write a weekly profile on the Great Books. But before I forget, the summary, for which the following should suffice: As the play ...

CU Boulder Classics scholars identify previously unknown fragments of two lost tragedies by Greek tragedian Euripides After months of intense scrutiny, two University of Colorado Boulder scholars have ...

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Martin Andrucki, Charles A. Dana Professor of Theater, directs the Bates College theater department production of Alcestis, Euripides’ tragedy about a king, doomed to die, who offers up his wife in ...

If you don’t know much about Greek mythology, “Medea” is Euripides’ dramatization of the ancient story of the sorceress daughter of a barbarian king whose arrogant husband leaves her for another woman ...

The story of the long struggle for the life of the city of Troy might be thought of as the pre-eminent Greek myth. Extensive narratives of the war are told in the oral traditions of myth and ...

Nick Salamone's musical adaptation of the 412 B.C. play gets a late-summer staging at the Getty Villa's antiquity-styled outdoor amphitheater. By Myron Meisel Helen Still - P 2012 In Euripides’ ...

“GRIEF Lessons,” the Canadian poet and classicist Anne Carson’s new rendering of four plays by Euripides, reminds us that the difference between competent and inspired translation is more than a ...