Can someone who is immortal be a tragic hero? Is he able to experience tragedy at all? Greek tragedy, as Anne Carson insinuates in the introduction to her translation of Euripides’ Herakles, is all ...

To understand the present, look to the past. The ancient Greeks saw war in all of its dehumanizing ferocity. In 416 BCE, Euripides wrote Herakles to parallel civil wars in Greece, contrasting the ...

On April 6, a full-house audience sat in the Minor Latham Playhouse for Barnard Columbia Ancient Drama’s production of Euripides’s Herakles, performed in ancient Greek and accompanied by Callum ...

According to director Peter Sellars, the first performance of Euripides' "The Children of Herakles" in Athens in 430 B.C. "served as a town meeting about refugee issues." In light of the world's ...

In Euripides’s telling of Heracles’s pre-divine adventures, the playwright breaks from the narrative recorded by Diodorus and Cicero by inverting the two major events in the Heracles myth. Euripides’ ...

Anne Carson lives in Michigan. She teaches at the University of Michigan and at McGill University, where she is the Director of Graduate Studies, Classics. She was twice a Finalist for the National ...

4 Photos: First Look at Chris Weikel's PRIDE HOUSE at The Flea Theater As part of Aquila Theatre's National Endowment for the Humanities Chairman Special Award 3 year public program, Ancient Greeks / ...