Pindar's longest ode, his Pythian 4, is also considered by some to be his greatest. It turns in part upon a muscular recounting of the A...

  Medea rejuvenating Jason's father Aeson Ovid was drawn to the daughter of Aeetes. His only tragic drama was his lost  Medea . A surviv...

A story of Shelly and Sophocles too good not to repeat, with full honors to C.M. Reed and to Michael Gilleland and his blog, Laudator Tempor...

Due to an unusually busy season there's been no time to talk about Euripides' Electra , which has been leading our group into a fas...

Our group lost its founder and sustaining presence on November 30, 2020.  Mussy Geer was "the heart and soul of the Classics Group in S...

Here is the second stanza of the chorus of Euripides' Electra  singing the divine delivery of Achilles' new armor: Χορός Νηρῇδες   δ...

From a  marvelous but very long article by Anthony Grafton Omnium Rerum Vicissitudo. ” Poverty, he explained, created Lowliness, and that, i...

Greek heroes from the Iliad by Tischbein, from left to right  -Menelaus, Paris, Diomedes, Odysseus, Nestor, Achilles and Agamemnon. vis Arch...

"The Persians" by Aeschylus Live from Epidaurus: For the first time ever a live ancient Greek drama performance will be stream...

Clytemnestra  tries to awaken the sleeping Erinyes.  Apulian   red-figure  bell-krater, 380–370 BC. The path of good speech   ...

The scope and object of the Oresteia is simply huge. Prior to Dante's Commedia , perhaps no other literary work sounded the matter of ...