The team behind what has been described as "one of the most significant mosaics discovered in the UK" have revealed that it ...

Writing a play,” Tom Stoppard told an interviewer in 1977, “is like smashing that ashtray, filming it in slow motion, and ...

With just over a month left of 2025, cultural organisers are busy planning ahead for next year’s festival season. Returning with an outstanding selection of Greek drama productions is the ...

And now I know/ That my business is not to run away, but to pursue/ Not to avoid being found, but to seek.” That point having been settled, he sets off at once for “Somewhere on the other side of ...

Great films possess a unique power to evoke memories of iconic literature from centuries ago. Often unconsciously, certain screenplays are so powerful that they inevitably invite such comparisons.

Aeschylus, widely regarded as the “Father of Tragedy,” was one of the first of classical Athens’ great dramatists. He raised the emerging art of tragedy to new heights of poetry and theatrical power.

Like Athena’s casting vote in the Eumenides, Aeschylus’s participation in the Persian wars acquitted him of a potentially life-threatening trial of his own. Aristotle writes that he was accused of ...

The Classical Review publishes informative reviews from leading scholars on new work covering the literatures and civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome. Publishing over 150 high quality reviews and ...

The long days of suspense over the decision that President Donald Trump would make about American involvement in the Iran-Israel war have abruptly come to an end as B-2 bombers attacked three nuclear ...

The Classical Review publishes informative reviews from leading scholars on new work covering the literatures and civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome. Publishing over 150 high quality reviews and ...

The beginning of Aeschylus’ “Eumenides” is frustratingly parochial. The entire trilogy, really—“The Oresteia”—is infamous among classicists for its difficulty in the original Greek: rare words, ...