Euripides (circa 480 – 406 BC) was the last of the three great tragedians of Classical Greece - the other two being Aeschylus, the ‘Father of Tragedy’ who, among many others wrote Agamemnon (458 BC) ...

Euripides, Athens’ radical outsider, held up a mirror to its glory, giving voice to women and the powerless, exposing fallible gods, and confronting the city’s wartime hypocrisy. Credit: John-Grégoire ...

In many ways this is the perfect play for the beginning of a new era at the National. The origins of Western theatre are acknowledged in the choice of a Greek classic, played in the Olivier auditorium ...

The ancient Greek statesman Pericles (ca 495–429 B.C.) left his mark on the world in far more ways than the iconic Acropolis that still defines the skyline of Athens. He advanced the foundations of ...

Wagner: Siegfried at Semperoper Dresden | Live Review Colin Clarke Monday, June 16, 2025 This was a superb evening – historically informed yet vividly alive, with revelatory textures, thrilling ...

Greek director, performance artist and leading voice on contemporary Theatre of The Absurd Euripides Laskaridis, returns to The Coronet with Relic, an outrageous and fearless solo performance.

Can you chip in? This year we’ve reached an extraordinary milestone: 1 trillion web pages preserved on the Wayback Machine. This makes us the largest public repository of internet history ever ...

The Manoel Theatre is presenting its own production of Euripides’ Medea in a version by Ben Power. The show’s director, Bettina Paris, and Becky Camilleri, who will be playing the role of Medea, say ...

Surprises aren’t something you normally associate with the study of ancient Greek drama. Yet in September 2024 scholars meeting at the University of Colorado Boulder were treated to just that. Two ...

If you want to get to know someone, especially if you’re an ancient historian, you should go through their rubbish. At the end of the 19th century, two Oxford academics, Bernard Grenfell and Arthur ...

In November 2022, archaeologists excavating the ancient city of Philadelphia, two hours south of Cairo, discovered a clump of papyri in a shallow grave. On one of them were written nearly a hundred ...