The regal speech of Phaedra in scene II of  Hippolytus captures the queen in her moment of resolve. Earlier, with the Nurse, she was ravin...

Hippolytus , Scene II. After the first dialogue between the Nurse and the Queen, Phaedra launches into a lengthy meditation, resonant wit...

Folks from U-Missouri-Kansas City are developing interesting modes of visualizing the linguistic components of Greek tragedies, as well a...

πολλὰ διδάσκει μ᾽ ὁ πολὺς βίοτος : χρῆν γὰρ μετρίας εἰς ἀλλήλους φιλίας θνητοὺς ἀνακίρνασθαι  255 καὶ μὴ πρὸς ἄκρον μ...

The stagecraft of Euripides is charged with tremendous compression. From the first moment Phaedra appears to the audience, she mirrors the ...

The theater of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides in Athens was relatively small, compared to the later theaters of the Hellenic and Roman ...

Simply for comparison: Given that the Hippolytus begins with the speech of Aphrodite and devotes choral odes as well as dialogue to the ...

A point on translation. Euripides takes care to interweave his words in ways that link strands in disparate parts of the Hippolytus . Tak...

Unlike Hippolytus, Theseus was a devotee of Aphrodite, and a builder of bonds, relations, between alien entities: As Heracles was the Dor...