After the fall of Troy, Queen Hecuba suffers the sacrifice of one of her remaining children to appease the ghost of Achilles and the brutal murder of another by a former friend from Thrace. With ...

The 2010 Bristol-Blackwell lectures were delivered by Erika Fischer-Lichte, Professor of Theatre Studies at the Free University of Berlin. Professor Fisher-Lichte is one of the foremost historians and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nick Salamone's musical adaptation of the 412 B.C. play gets a late-summer staging at the Getty Villa's antiquity-styled outdoor amphitheater. By Myron Meisel Helen Still - P 2012 In Euripides’ ...