“Ajax” is a tragedy by the ancient Greek playwright Sophocles. Although the exact date of its first performance is unknown, most scholars date it ...
Continue Reading →Of the Greek lyric poets, Pindar (ca. 518-438 BCE) was “by far the greatest for the magnificence of his inspiration” in Quintilian’s view; Horace judged ...
Continue Reading →Nonnos of Panopolis in Egypt, who lived in the fifth century of our era, composed the last great epic poem of antiquity. The Dionysiaca, in ...
Continue Reading →Euripides’ Cyclops is the only example of Attic satyr-drama which survives intact. It is a brilliant dramatisation of the famous story from Homer’s Odyssey of ...
Continue Reading →Euripides was a playwright of the fifth century BC who reinvented Greek tragedy, setting it on a path that leads straight to reality TV. His ...
Continue Reading →Transmitted among the plays of Euripides, but disputed to have been written by him ever since Antiquity, Rhesus is probably a mid-fourth century tragedy that ...
Continue Reading →Medea (Ancient Greek: Μήδεια, Mēdeia) is an ancient Greek tragedy written by Euripides, based upon the myth of Jason and Medea and first produced in ...
Continue Reading →Iphigenia in Tauris or Iphigenia among the Taurians is a tragedy, although sometimes described as a romance or melodrama, by the ancient Greek playwright Euripides, ...
Continue Reading →Ion is a tragedy by the ancient Greek playwright Euripides, thought to have been written between about 414 and 412 BCE. It describes the tale ...
Continue Reading →“Heracles” or “The Madness of Heracles” is a tragedy by the ancient Greek playwright Euripides. It describes the frenzy of divinely induced madness of the ...
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