Reading Greek Tragedy Online Season 5!
Join us for the 5th season of Reading Greek Tragedy Online, in partnership with The Center for Hellenic Studies, the Kosmos Society, and Out of Chaos Theatre! Read more
Aeschylus
The Danaid Legacy – Aeschylus
4 May 2022, 3:00 pm ET
Reading Greek Tragedy Online Season 4 Episode 3 On Wednesday, May 4th at 3:00pm EDT, Reading Greek Tragedy returns with Aeschylus’s Danaid trilogy. In this week’s episode, we take a theatrical deep dive into the story of the Daughters of Danaus and how the legacy of Aeschylus’ Danaid trilogy (The Suppliants and the extant fragments of The Danaids and Amymone) have influenced future interpretations of the myth, from The Heroides by Ovid to Big Love by Charles… Read more
Prometheus Bound – Aeschylus
1 June 2022, 3:00 pm ET
On Wednesday June 1 at 3:00pm EST, Reading Greek Tragedy returns with Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound. Read more
“Dream of a Shade”: Refractions of Epic Vision in Pindar’s Pythian 8 and Aeschylus’ Seven against Thebes
[[This is an electronic version of an article that appeared in Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 100 (2000) 97–118. In this online version, the original page-numbers of the printed version are indicated within braces (“{” and “}”). For example, “{97|98}” indicates where p. 97 of the printed version ends and p. 98 begins.]] This essay explores the idea of epic in relative rather than absolute terms, with specific reference to… Read more