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Euripides, The Great Greek Tragedian

By Eldar Balta, Contributing Writer, Classical Wisdom Euripides’ Early life Born on Salamis Island in 480 BC to mother Cleito and father Mnesarchus, Euripides’ destiny was foretold in a prophecy given to his father. The Oracle fated that Euripides would one day hold the “crowns of victory”. Mnesarchus did not lose any time insisting that

Written on November 17, 2018 at 12:06 am, by plato

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Categories: Dramatists

Tags: Aeschylus, Ancient Greek theater, Archelaus, Aristophanes, Euripides, Macidonia, medea, Sophocles, Thracians, Tragedians

The Bloodless – but perhaps Most Clever – Greek Tragedy Ever Written

By Ben Potter and Anya Leonard Sophocles’ Philoctetes, first performed in 409 BC, isn’t a typical tragedy, certainly not in the more modern perception of the genre. There is no high death toll and no evil, underhand conniving that leaves characters bitter and crushed. In a word, there is no blood. In fact, as far

Written on October 2, 2018 at 8:05 pm, by plato

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Categories: Theater

Tags: Ancient Greek theater, Euripides, Lemnos, Neoptolemus, Odysseus, Odyssey, Philoctetes, Sophocles, Tragedy

Was Ancient Greek Theater Only for Men?

by Ben Potter A quick search of our homepage will reveal that a copious amount of ink has already been spilt discussing the life and works of the great practitioners of Athenian theatre: Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes. However, leaving aside these individuals for the moment, brilliant as they may have been, what of the

Written on September 5, 2018 at 12:41 am, by plato

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Categories: Theater

Tags: Ancient Greek theater, Aristophanes, Assemblywomen, Athenian society, electra, Euripides, Lenaia, Lysistrata, medea, playwrights, The City Dionysia

Jason: Sniveling Worm or Unfortunate Bloke?

By Ben Potter and Anya Leonard It’s a myth famed in the ancient greek world, filled with monsters, superheroes and of course femme fatales. The main plot centers around Jason, who with his band of badass super heros (including the likes of Heracles), adventures in his quest to regain his rightful throne. And he is

Written on March 30, 2018 at 10:58 am, by plato

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Categories: Heroes

Tags: Euripides, Jason, Jason and the Argonauts, medea

The Ages of Ancient Greece

By Ben Potter Archaic. Classical. Hellenistic. These terms are often (and quite naturally) conflated together under the generic heading of ‘classical’, or, at the very least, ‘old’. It appears that organizing history into clear, distinct eras can be a tricky business. This, of course, is more true for the Greeks than for the Romans. This

Written on November 28, 2014 at 4:27 pm, by plato

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Categories: Politics

Tags: 480, 776, Aeschylus, Aphaia at Aegina, Archaic, Archaism, argos, Aristophanes, Aristotle, Athens, Bronze, Classical Greece, Corinth, Euripides, Hellenism, Herodotus Thyuchdides, persian war, Plato, Polyclitus, Praxiteles, Prehistoric, socrates, Sophocles, Sparta, tyranny