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The summertime is peak season for ancient Greek theatre and the majority of performances present contemporary adaptations in Greek. One upcoming production this July will present Elektra from ...

This fall, the Getty Villa Museum and the Troubadour Theater Company will present Oedipus the King, Mama! for the 19th annual ...

Oedipus' starring Mark Strong and Lesley Manville will begin performances at Broadway's Studio 54 on October 30 with an opening night on November 13.

In her fascinating history of old age, Winter Dreams, Barbara H Rosenwein extracts lessons on ageing from Sophocles to Jenny ...

Sophocles’s Elektra is consumed with grief over her father’s murder (by her mother and her new lover) and obsessed with retribution, so she convinces her brother to kill them both.

The history of Modern Greek at Harvard University begins in 1828, just a few years after the start of the Greek War of ...