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Critical Stages, 2021 In 2003, Theodoros Terzopoulos, the internationally acclaimed Greek theatre director, staged a performance which was based on fragments of ancient Greek dramas written by Aeschylus; the play he created was called Epigonoi.
Menelaos Karantzas
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Ancient Greek theater as a school for the city: why Socrates was not a theatergoer [PDF]
HypothekaiThe article explores the phenomenon of ancient Greek theater, portraying it as a unique space where an entire cityscape unfolded before the eyes of thousands of spectators.
Victoria
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Aeschylus' geographic imagination
Classica, Revista Brasileira de Estudos Clássicos, 2009 After reviewing various scholars’ accounts of geographical references in Aeschylus’ plays, some seeing exoticism, some serious geographic knowledge reflecting Ionian science, some focused exclusively on the opposition of Greek and barbarian, I argue that
Peter W. Rose
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, 2013 Dictionaries of the Ancient Greek language distinguish only two or three different meanings of the Greek word ὕστριξ. The present author analyses all the contexts and glosses where the word in question appears.
Witczak, Krzysztof
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Lexis, 2020 This paper attempts a reconstruction of Aeschylus’ satyr-play Heralds. As the myth of Erginus’ heralds and their mutilation by Heracles is shown to be unconvincing on many grounds, it explores the possibility that the satyrs turned up or out as ...
Poli Palladini, Letizia
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Minor epic: Notes toward a different “Anthropoetry”
Anthropology and Humanism, Volume 51, Issue 1, June 2026.Abstract Anthropologists have often turned to poetry as a means of accessing emotional registers of which conventional academic prose is unable to avail. In doing so, they have tacitly conflated poetry with lyric poetry, today probably the most widely practiced poetic genre, associated in particular with the expression of inner feelings and subjectival
Stuart McLean
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Crisis and philosophy: Aeschylus and Euripides on Orestes' crimes [PDF]
, 2012 Since the XIX century, a pleiad of philosophers and historians support the idea that Greek philosophy, usually reported to have started with the presocratics, lays its basis in a previous moment: the Greek myths – systematized by Homer and Hesiod – and ...
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Pallas, 2018 This paper investigates how the Chorus of Aeschylus’ Eumenides has been revived on the stage to address modern socio-political issues. First, I focus on Sartre’s The Flies, created in Paris in 1943 during the German occupation.
Daria Francobandiera
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Histories of Untranslatability in South Asia: Historiography, Debates, and Problems, 1980–2010
History Compass, Volume 23, Issue 7-9, July-September 2025.ABSTRACT Untranslatability is not a separate field of study in history; rather, it is a conceptual lens that captures the concerns of certain strands of scholarship which have tended to somewhat problematize connections, translations, and mediation across imperial and colonial divides.
Vipin Krishna
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Oresteia as transformative work [symposium]
Transformative Works and Cultures, 2016 Robert Icke's transformative adaptation of Aeschylus' Oresteia updates its themes and gives it a profound emotional urgency.
Tisha Turk
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