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’ ...

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THE third episode begins with the sudden and unexpected appearance of Heracles. He is not even descried and announced by the chorus previous to his entrance ; but the traditional club and lion-skin ...

A young refugee stands blindfolded in the middle of a bare stage. She shakes as a man in camouflage holds a knife to her throat. Audience members cringe as crimson pours down her jeans and t-shirt.