For the first time in Bangladesh, "The Libation Bearers", a renowned Greek tragedy by Aeschylus, will be staged at Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy on August 19, 20, and 21. The production is being ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- "The Omen of the Eagles and the Ethos of Agamemnon," an article by John Peradotto, Ph.D., of Amherst, emeritus SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor and former faculty member in the ...

The Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey will present its free Picnic Series on Sunday, Aug. 3, at 6 p.m., featuring a performance by the Next Stage Ensemble, the theatre’s summer touring company of ...

The power of maternity loomed large in the ancient Greek cultural imagination. Mothers and motherhood were essential to any city-state, yet deeply mistrusted by this misogynistic culture. Greek ...

In David Johnston's freewheeling adaptation of Aeschylus' The Oresteia, the playwright has condensed the famed Greek tragedy of supreme familial dysfunction into a mere two hours. Tossing out ...

Agamemnon Aeschylus - This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. Agamemnon is the first of the three linked ...