Apr. 26—Don Winslow may not have written "City on Fire" in Homeric Greek, but that's where the differences end between this tour-de-force of the criminal underground and "The Iliad." Drawing on the ...
Netflix’s Blood of Zeus Season 3 stands out for its stunning visuals, battles, complex epic heroes, and storytelling. At the heart of the series is a classic Greek tragedy rooted in hubris, the divine ...
In The Birth of Tragedy, Friedrich Nietzsche’s seminal 1872 study of the origins and significance of Greek tragedy, the German philosopher called for the rebirth of tragic art to reawaken the profound ...
My late classics professor taught me that Ancient Greek tragedy dramatized different points of view, insisted on empathy, and warned against hubris. What would he have made of our current moment?
IN the revolt against the long primacy of the classics we find united temporarily, by the bond of common hostility, several camps that on other questions are much at variance with one another. There ...
The characters of Greek tragedy have often been reimagined into various modern contexts, but few are as visually or thematically striking as that of the Barnard theater department’s production of ...