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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

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