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… Read more
Join us Friday, 18 November at 3:00pm EDT for Euripides's Iphigenia! Translated by Mary Ebbott. Read more
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
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 will speak specifically about the process of working with a fragment of Euripides’ Protesilaus. Read more
A play about the myth of Laodamia and Protesilaus Read more
Reading Greek Tragedy Online returns with a musical adaptation by J. Landon Marcus and Johanna Warren Read more
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… Read more
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… Read more
