Dymphna's Archive·Aug 21The Same Stories, Cross-Examined: Sophocles and the Birth of Ethical ArgumentPart 1 of this series ended with a handoff: the same mythic material — houses, curses, family lines already fixed by epic — taken up by…
Cultures: Arts Reviews and Views by Susan Tailby·Aug 2The Oresteia @ The Bridge Theatre, LondonAn Odyssey of a different, swearier kind for those of us thinking about all things classical Greece at the moment. This is the bleakest…
Phil Garber·May 15Haw Haw, Hanoi Hannah, Baghdad Bob Had Nothing On Prevaricating PeteIraq had Baghdad Bob, Japan had Tokyo Rose, the Nazis had Lord Haw Haw, North Korea had Seoul City Sue, North Vietnam had its Hanoi Hannah…
MIRAI·May 12الفرس لإسخيلوس: أول سرقة للهوية في التاريخ المسرحيقرأت مسرحية الفرس لإسخيلوس، وأنا أعتقد أنني سأطّلع على وثيقة تاريخية تروي هزيمة فريدة. لكنني فوجئت بأن الفرس على خشبة المسرح لا يدعون إلههم…
Tubx7359·Feb 2CassandraWith reason did Clytemnestra rage, a living torch the gods can scarcely bear Agamemnon was bowed with age, charming eyes, more than fair In…
