While the general approach of our group involves close attention to a text - as we have found that reading aloud and re-reading does wonder...

Normally we tend to shy away from "modern equivalents" of ancient figures - for good reason. But in this case, let's make an ...

This is long and in part goes back over lines already discussed, but from a different angle, trying to clarify something. Feel free to igno...

The sole independent choral ode in the Philoctetes begins with a seemingly remote mythological allusion to Ixion: Chorus I have heard a...

As Kitto and others have long noted, some of the language of the Philoctetes breathes a common air -- the passages evoking the plight of t...