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The Hades II trailer is great not only for more Olympian thirst traps, but also for a frog!
In Aristophanes' The Frogs, Dionysos goes down into the underworld to search for Euripides. The chorus is made up of (ghost?) frogs who sing Βρεκεκεκὲξ κοὰξ κοάξ (Brekekekex Koax Koax).

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2022-12-11

day A fresco from depicting a scene from the  'Iphigenia in Tauris' by

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2022-10-23

euripides.... clerk gets all the attentionche needs some.juice too

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2021-05-14

The Death of Alcestis - Jean-François Pierre Peyron, 1794. The subject is the conjugal virtue of the heroine of the tragic drama Alcestis by the fifth-century B.C. Greek poet Euripides. When her husband angered the gods...

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2020-10-06

The epithet Apollon Akestôr, Apollon the Healer, the Doctor, appears in "Andromache" by Euripides.

The Athenians worshipped Apollon Alexikakos, Apollon the averter of evil, bc he was believed to have stopped the plague which raged at Athens in the time of the Peloponnesian war.

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2020-03-16

Reading Euripides. Why are the English and the Chinese translations so much different from each other? I don't know which one to believe anymore. *Sigh Not knowing more languages does cost me.

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2019-12-05

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