A beginner’s guide to Ancient Greek tragedy

Performed in the annual Dionysia festivals, tragic drama was a central tradition of Ancient Greece, a method of both ...
The Atlantic

Shall We Still Read Greek Tragedy?

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 ...
PBS

The History of Greek Theater

A notable figure who blazed the trail for Greek tragedy was a man named Thespis. A poet and actor, Thespis began to act out individual characters by switching between different masks. In its earliest ...
The American Conservative

RBG and Greek Tragedy

The tragic dramas of Ancient Greece often follow a common arc: an unwary but usually unobjectionable hero commits a blunder or series of blunders culminating in personal disaster, followed by fleeting ...
Inside Higher Ed

The Central Role of the Study of Tragedy

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 ...
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9 Movies That Capture the Essence of Greek Tragedies

Great films possess a unique power to evoke memories of iconic literature from centuries ago. Often unconsciously, certain screenplays are so powerful that they inevitably invite such comparisons.
Ars Technica

Movies that remind you of Greek tragedies.

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