Euripides

Visiting Scholars

Open House | Euripides’ Erechtheus in context, with Lucia Athanassaki

We were pleased to welcome Lucia Athanassaki, Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Crete, for a discussion of Euripides’ Erechtheus in context. The event took place on Thursday, April 25th, at 11 a.m. EDT, and was recorded. In preparation you might like to read Lycurgus, Against Leocrates 98–101, available on Perseus. You can watch the event on our YouTube channel, or in the frame below: For further videos… Read more

Classical Reception

The Oresteia gets a facelift

A review of Colm Tóibín’s new novel, House of Names House of Names chronicles disturbed people performing disturbing acts. The novel is based on the story of Orestes as dramatized by three playwrights of ancient Greece: Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. But wielding a heavy editor’s pencil, acclaimed novelist Colm Tóibín radically revised the story and its structure. As well, he invented new characters and made the attributes of existing ones… Read more

Book Club

Book Club | October 2016: Euripides’ Helen

Dear fellow readers Our next Book Club selection takes us to the world of ancient Greek drama, and that most famous and beautiful of women, Helen. There is a new “heroized” version of the play in the Text Library, here, in html or PDF format. This tracks the Core Vocab words that we are familiar with from the HeroesX project and the Sourcebook, and is based on the translation by… Read more

Texts

Introducing Euripides’ Helen

A “heroized” edition of Euripides’ Helen We are pleased to share a revised translation of Euripides’ Helen that tracks Core Vocab words in the same way as the Sourcebook of Primary Texts in Translation used in HeroesX. You can find it here, in html or PDF format. This was the result of the third community-driven collaborative “heroization” project. The group revised a translation to indicate each and every occurrence of… Read more

Gallery

Gallery: Aphrodite and Artemis

Phaedra and Hippolytus, Sarcophagus (290CE) Louvre In Euripides’ Hippolytus, Aphrodite (Venus) and Artemis (Diana) are rivals. This Gallery shows how some sculptors and painters represented the two beautiful goddesses. They have similarities: their faces often have the same features. Gregory Nagy in Hour 20, in The Ancient Greek Hero in 24 Hours writes about “The complementarity of Artemis and Aphrodite.” In this Gallery, Phaedra and Hippolytus, both victims, are also present.… Read more