The New Euripides
On June 13 and 14, 2024, the Center for Hellenic Studies hosted 15 scholars from across the globe to compare their research on one of the most significant discoveries in Greek tragedy in nearly 60 years. Read more
Euripides
Poetry and the Polis in Euripidean Tragedy
Most critics agree that Euripidean tragedy addresses a wealth of political questions, and that it successfully incorporates and engages with a variety of ancient Greek poetic traditions. Nevertheless, these topics and questions have generally been treated separately. In this book, Jonah Radding contends that the political issues addressed in Euripides’s tragedies are inextricably related to his employment of choral lyric genres such as paean and epinician, and to his engagement with canonical poetic texts such… Read more
Iphigenia – Euripides and Mary Ebbott
18 November 2022, 3:00 pm ET
Join us Friday, 18 November at 3:00pm EDT for Euripides's Iphigenia! Translated by Mary Ebbott. Read more
Children of Herakles – Euripides
20 October 2022, 3:00 pm ET
On Wednesday, October 19th at 3:00pm EDT, Reading Greek Tragedy Online returns with Children of Heracles! With special guest Katherine Lu Hsu of Holy Cross University. Read more
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
Ellen McLaughlin
15 April 2022, 11:00 am ET
Ellen will speak specifically about the process of working with a fragment of Euripides’ Protesilaus. Read more
The Laodamiad
1 December 2021, 3:00 pm ET
A play about the myth of Laodamia and Protesilaus Read more
The Bacchae
13 October 2021, 3:00 pm ET
Reading Greek Tragedy Online returns with a musical adaptation by J. Landon Marcus and Johanna Warren Read more
Euripides’ Helen
31 March 2021, 3:00 pm ET
A live reading and discussion of Euripides' Helen, hosted by Joel Christensen (Brandeis University) with guest speaker Lyndsay Coo (University of Bristol) and special guests Pria Jackson (Princeton University) and Ria Modak (Harvard University). The reading offers a chance to reflect on one year of Reading Greek Tragedy Online and return to the first play that started the series. This special episode features a new translation by Diane Rayor and is directed by Tabatha Gayle. Featured actors include Hannah Barrie, Zack Dictakis, Evelyn Miller, Richard Neale, Paul O'Mahony, Eunice Roberts, and Rene Thornton. Read more
Imagining Illegitimacy in Classical Greek Literature
In Imagining Illegitimacy, Mary Ebbott investigates metaphors of illegitimacy in classical Greek literature, concentrating in particular on the way in which the illegitimate child (nothos) is imagined in narratives. Employing an approach that maintains that metaphors are a key to understanding abstract ideas, Ebbott connects the many complex metaphors associated with illegitimacy to the ancient Greek conception of illegitimacy. The nothos as imagined in ancient Greek literature is metaphorically connected… Read more