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 ...

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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 ...

CU Boulder Classics scholars identify previously unknown fragments of two lost tragedies by Greek tragedian Euripides After months of intense scrutiny, two University of Colorado Boulder scholars have ...

Two scholars from the University of Colorado Boulder have unearthed significant fragments from two lost tragedies by the ancient Greek playwright Euripides. This discovery, made after months of ...

If you want to get to know someone, especially if you’re an ancient historian, you should go through their rubbish. At the end of the 19th century, two Oxford academics, Bernard Grenfell and Arthur ...

About the book: Ion is one of Euripides' most appealing and inventive plays. With its story of an anonymous temple slave discovered to be the son of Apollo and Creusa, an Athenian princess, it is a ...

“When somebody’s the president of the United States, the authority is total” was Donald Trump‘s edict on April 13. Not according to the early definition from the Greek tragedian Euripides: “Nothing ...