Sophocles, The Women of Trachis
After completing his labours, Herakles finally returns home, sending ahead a young woman, Iole, to serve his bed. In an attempt to regain Herakles’ affection ...
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Trackers, Greek Ichneutai, satyr play by Sophocles. It is based on two stories about the miraculous early deeds of the god Hermes: that the infant, ...
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Sophocles’ Philoctetes is one of the most widely read Greek tragedies today but is a complex and challenging play to interpret. Its representation of Philoctetes ...
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In Orestes, the famous Greek tragic dramatist Euripides (c. 480 BC to 406 BC) revisits the bloody history of the House of Atreus and ...
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Sophocles’ Oedipus at Colonus tells the story of the last day in the life of Oedipus. It was written at the end of the ...
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“Ajax” is a tragedy by the ancient Greek playwright Sophocles. Although the exact date of its first performance is unknown, most scholars date it ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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