My late classics professor taught me that Ancient Greek tragedy dramatized different points of view, insisted on empathy, and warned against hubris. What would he have made of our current moment?

Greek tragedy has never been the story of good triumphing over evil, much less the narrative of tidy victories and happy endings. In the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the forces of ...

The characters of Greek tragedy have often been reimagined into various modern contexts, but few are as visually or thematically striking as that of the Barnard theater department’s production of ...

Korydallos prison inmates perform in the ancient Greek tragedy ‘Antigone’ for their fellow inmates, at the prison’s yard in Korydallos, Greece, June 11, 2024. REUTERS/Stelios Misinas On a stifling ...

In one of the most significant discoveries related to Ancient Greek literature over the past half century, archaeologists have uncovered around 100 lines from two otherwise lost plays by the ...

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 ...

Greek tragedy is, as Keats wrote of human life, a large mansion with many apartments. Large but somewhat shabby, it features numerous gaps and half-wrecked rooms. Yet this structure has withstood time ...

On Oct. 28, 2015, an overloaded boat filled with refugees broke up and capsized off the coast of Lesvos, a Greek island. Hundreds were thrown into the water, and dozens were killed. Journalist Jeanne ...