We all know, or think we know, the story: man inadvertently murders father; man inadvertently marries mother; man eventually ...

The three great playwrights of tragedy were Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. Aristotle argued that tragedy cleansed the heart through pity and terror, purging us of our petty concerns and ...

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To register your interest please contact collegesales@cambridge.org providing details of the course you are teaching. Sophocles' Philoctetes is one of the most widely read Greek tragedies today but is ...

Dialogues d'histoire ancienne, Vol. 45/2, Issue. 2, p. 47. Literary historians have long held the view that the plays of the Greek dramatist, Sophocles deal purely with archetypes of the heroic past ...

His pupil, Sophocles went on to add a third actor, while Euripides added both a prologue, introducing the subject of the play, and the deus ex machina, a divine figure who wrapped up any loose ...

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Following the death of Alexander the Great, Athens and its allies tried to put an end in Macedonia's rule over them.

And Sophocles’ play Women of Trachis dramatizes the disastrous efforts of Deianeira, Hercules' wife, to win her husband back. All these stories suggest love magic works, even if not always as intended ...