"Greek Tragedy" is meticulously edited collection of the most famous plays written by Aeschylus and Sophocles. Aeschylus (525/524 – c. 456/455 BC) was an ancient Greek tragedian. He is often described ...

Specimens of Greek Tragedy Aeschylus and Sophocles - Aeschylus, Sophocles - "Greek Tragedy" is meticulously edited collection of the most famous plays written by Aeschylus and Sophocles. Aeschylus ...

At the Salzburg Festival, a new adaptation of “The Oresteia” will put a classic story of war, democracy and revenge into a modern context. By David Belcher Staging “The Oresteia,” Aeschylus’s epic ...

On Friday night, the long collaboration between University Theatre’s master of fine arts program and Madison Repertory Theatre will culminate with the opening of “The Greeks.” By bringing the two ...

Performed in the annual Dionysia festivals, tragic drama was a central tradition of Ancient Greece, a method of both ...

The greatest ancient dramas were tragedies. One side of the tragic world view is given by Cassandra’s last words in Aeschylus’s famous triology, the Oresteia (the translation above is by Richard ...

Because tragedy is the imitation of an action – one from which we may be taught virtue and purged of the inherent sickness in our mortal souls – there is an underlying quality of goodness and justice ...

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This essay examines Clytaemestra’s dream in Sophocles’ Electra (vv. 417-425). The queen’s dream was told in Stesichorus’ Oresteia (fr. 219 P. = 180 D.-F.), and Aeschylus’ Choephori (vv. 527-533).