Feminist studies has long had a crush on Euripides. The purported champion of women’s rights in Ancient Greece earned his reputation for his man-hating Medea, but his alleged soft spot for the weaker ...

Helen was "the face that launched a thousand ships" — the Spartan queen, seduced by the son of a Trojan king, leaving her husband to send Greek sailors and soldiers to retrieve her, and kicking off an ...

Playwrights and professors spoke about their portrayals of femininity of Greek characters in plays about war and violence. The event was presented in conjunction with Doheny Library’s new exhibition ...

In common speech, when there is a situation filled with disaster after tragic disaster, one might say, “it was like a Greek tragedy.” The classical Greek stage was well-known for its tragedies.

Norman— University Theatre and Helmerich School of Drama present the epic drama The Trojan Women. The production opens at 8 p.m. Feb. 12, with additional performances at 8 p.m. Feb. 13, 18, 19 and 20, ...

In this paper a new interpretation of the first stasimon of Euripides’ Troades is proposed, based on a plausible relationship with Sappho’s F 44 Voigt. Sappho’s version of the wedding of Hektor and ...

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Compelling and colorful, “Trojan Women: A Love Story,” opens tonight at Fort Lewis College. Written by Charles L. Mee, Jr., an American playwright with an outsized imagination for reinventing Greek ...

As such, on June 26, her reimagination of Euripides’ “The Trojan Women” will see its world premiere as “Her Name Means Memory,” which Zinn wrote and will be directing. The play will be performed in ...

Though the tragedies of Euripides are 2,500 years old they still resonate in the minds of today’s audiences -- particularly when one views them in the light of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and ...