The Oxford History Of The Classical World

exotic. Sophocles lived from about 496 to 406 B.C., that is, nearly all the years of the fifth century. At the age of about twen ...

come now, help now, avenge our father killed. Send me my brother home. I can no longer carry the weight of grief I am to bear. F ...

at his best in the play Oedipus at Colonus, but that is a strange and wonderful place. The play centres on a holy wood near Colo ...

Euripides was country-born as Aeschylus was, quite early in the fifth century, in about 485 B.C.; that means he was no more than ...

theatre demands freshness; old stories demand intellectual versatility. But a passionate coherence and a passionate understandin ...

O throne of Earth and thou whose seat is earth hard to be known whatever thou mayest be, necessity of nature, mind of man, Zeus ...

black-dressed peasants around a market square, who give sudden murder or the vengeance of the gods its social meaning. The tragi ...

later, and perhaps elsewhere, was to produce elaborate perspective painting. It spread to the walls of houses, the house of Alci ...

Scene From A Satyr Play, on an Athenian vase of about 470-460 B.C. That these are not real satyrs is shown by the loin-cloth to ...

thousand miles here from the kind of argument he deals with. It is a pity we have no complete satyr play by Aeschylus. The fragm ...

Clay Figures Of Comic Actors, both masked, and the one on the right wearing the characteristic short padded dress with phallus a ...

with a play in which the poet deserts his wife Comedy to go whoring after boys called Wine-bottles and a slut called Drunkenness ...

characters. What he really hates, apart from such scum of the earth as Cleon, is charlatans and pretentiousness and pseudo-refor ...

despair about altering the course of events seems to have set hard. What he proposes is a conspiracy of women to refuse sex with ...

Would Socrates say so? His last surviving play, Wealth, was produced in 388 B.C. Wealth is notoriously blind, and gives his bene ...

The New Comedy Poet Menander (who died about 292bc). Mosaic portrait found in a Roman villa of the fourth century A.D. near the ...

All the same, the harmonious confusion and the mild violence within the magic circle of Menander's theatrical effects are meant ...

A Comic Production With Phlyax Actors (probably so-called for their padded costumes), on a vase made in Apulia about 375 BC. The ...

which happened at many removes, partly through the blood-soaked exaggerations of Seneca, exaggerated still further in translatio ...

Greek Historians (By Oswyn Murray) The Origins of History Many societies possess professional remembrancers, priests or offici ...