This group has completed its collective reading of the Hippolytus, so I'll post a few afterthoughts rather than continue with close rea...

Some interesting points about charioteering, and about the sport that became the panacea of the masses, panem et circenses , according to ...

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Bridging the last scene and the Epilogue is this final paean to Aphrodite -- it repeats the theme of the power of Cypris and her son from e...