The ancient Greek city of Thebes played a central role in Greek history, appearing in many of the legends of Greek mythology.

W ritten in the 5th century BCE by one of the greatest ancient Greek playwrights, Sophocles’s Oedipus Rex is a masterpiece of theatrical construction, fraught with horrific, methodically ...

In Greek tragedy, the protagonist is often a figure of greatness brought low by a fatal flaw. For Oedipus, that flaw was his impetuousness and quick temper. He lashed out at the prophet, dismissing ...

it’s likely that this Oedipus would have felt like one tragedy too many, especially opening in the same week as another Oscar winner, Brie Larson, takes on another Greek tragedy, Elektra.

Aeschylus, the father of Greek tragedy, died in 456 BC ... His mantle was taken up by the playwrights Sophocles, who wrote Antigone, Oedipus at Colonus, and Oedipus Rex; and Euripides, who ...

AN able article has lately been published in the Advocate, discussing the music for the Greek play, composed by Professor Paine. As the criticism there made was directed chiefly to the methods ...

The lack of a strict religious dogma associated with the worship of Greek gods also encouraged scholars to congregate at Delphi, and it became a focal point for intellectual enquiry, as well as an ...

In Greek tragedy, the protagonist is often a figure of greatness brought low by a fatal flaw. For Oedipus, that flaw was his impetuousness and quick temper. He lashed out at the prophet, dismissing ...