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Euripides´ Hippolytus, Love and law 

 There’s a reason Euripides is often called the “people’s poet.” Though his plays were not the most popular in their own time, after his death they were soon recognized for their incredible attention to character.

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2019-12-09

Ancient Greek Tragedy 

Greek tragedy was a popular and influential form of drama performed in theatres across ancient Greece from the late 6th century BCE. The most famous playwrights of the genre were Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides...

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2019-11-24

What do Jean Grey of the X-Men & Helen of Troy have in common?

Eidolon, ka, fetch, doppelgangers, spirit-doubles: a mythical plot device from Euripides to Goethe to Marvel.

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2019-10-24

I'm excited to be kicking off my free A-Level Greek course for adult learners today at King's College London. Over the next twenty months we're reading Plato's Phaedo and Euripides' Medea, two towering landmarks of world literature. Pure joy.

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2019-09-17

For my favourite papyrus: a North African Greek actor's rehearsal script for the bereaved Admetus' role in Euripides' Alcestis; extra-big letters for reading off while gesticulating: 'I'll never touch the lyre again, nor lift my heart in song to the Libyan pipe"

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2019-09-08

Euripides, from “Orestes”, An Oresteia (trans. Anne Carson)

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2019-06-18

I learned the derivation of SERENDIPITY from dramatist Alain-René Lesage, born May 6 1668: Sri Lanka's Arabic name=SERENDIB. His wildly colonialist harlequinade "Arlequin roi de Serendib" (1713) adapts Euripides' IPHIGENIA IN TAURIS & folktales about finding treasure accidentally

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2019-05-06

Fyi my adaption of Euripides's Bacchae play is going to go on sale this week. It looks like this:

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2018-10-30

Theban or 'swollen foot' appears in many works including &

Oedipus, Svetlin Vassilev, pubblished in the book Greek Mythology, 2006.

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2018-08-19

[magi spoilers]
"Come back.
Even as a shadow,
even as a dream.”

― Euripides
★

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2018-05-03

A reimagining of Euripides’ Medea as a divinity, done for my Greek Mythology elective. :)

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2018-04-19