Frogs, Greek Batrachoi, a literary comedy by Aristophanes, produced in 405 bce. The play tells the story of Dionysus, the god of drama, who is ...
Continue Reading →The Clouds (Ancient Greek: Νεφέλαι Nephelai) is a Greek comedy play written by the playwright Aristophanes. A lampooning of intellectual fashions in classical Athens, it ...
Continue Reading →The fifty daughters of Danaus, collectively known as the Danaides (who make up the Chorus of the play), are fleeing with their father in an ...
Continue Reading →Aeschylus (525-456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. The ...
Continue Reading →“Seven Against Thebes” is a tragedy by the ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus, dating from 467 BCE. It is the classic statement of the myth (also ...
Continue Reading →Prometheus Bound is an Ancient Greek tragedy written by Aeschylus between 479 BC and 430 BC. The tragedy is based on the myth of Prometheus, ...
Continue Reading →The only trilogy in Greek drama that survives from antiquity, Aeschylus’ The Oresteia is translated by Robert fagles with an introduction, notes and glossary written ...
Continue Reading →Vitruvius’s De architectura has long been subject to critical commentary on the grounds that its language is irregular and even untranslatable, that its technical treatment ...
Continue Reading →What does it mean to write “This is not a pipe” across a bluntly literal painting of a pipe? René Magritte’s famous canvas provides the ...
Continue Reading →In this handy volume, Claire Colebrook offers an overview of the history and structure of irony, from Socrates to the present. Students will welcome this ...
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