Tragedy

Philoctetes

Reading Greek Tragedy returns with Sophocles Philoctetes. This event will be streamed to Youtube and broadcast live from Hilles Cinema at Harvard University. If you are on campus, join us! Read more

The Captive Woman’s Lament in Greek Tragedy.

The laments of captive women found in extant Athenian tragedy constitute a fundamentally subversive aspect of Greek drama. In performances supported by and intended for the male citizens of Athens, the songs of the captive women at the Dionysia gave a voice to classes who otherwise would have been marginalized… Read more