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 ...

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 ...

Iphigenia review: A clumsy and unnecessary attempt to make Euripides relevant - 2/5 This play at the Arcola Theatre by ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Athenian poet Euripides was the last of the three great Greek tragedians (after Aeschylus and Sophocles) and also the least successful. Greek tragedies were performed competitively at religious ...

It wasn't an immediate success. Not according to the judges at Athens' annual dramatic festival when "Medea" premiered in 431 B.C. Euripides received the third, or last, prize, losing out to Euphorion ...

The surviving Greek tragedies pose inordinate challenges to contemporary theater practitioners, but Euripides’ “Bacchae,” one of his most beloved works, may be the trickiest of all to stage. It’s ...

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’ ...