Since I do not have access to the original text of “The Trojan Women,” the following summary is based on an English translation by M. Hadas and J. McLean in an anthology entitled “Greek Drama.” The translators did a good job. However, no translation can be perfectly faithful to the original. For example, Hecuba compares ...
Since I do not own a copy of the Greek original, the following summary of Aeschylus’ “Agamemnon” is based on an English translation of the tragedy which Moses Hadas has included in an anthology entitled “Greek Drama,” a Bantum Classic. A.W. Verrall is the translator. The play begins with a prologue spoken by a watchman. ...
If you are college student, at some point you may be called upon to write an English term paper utilizing a specific type of literary theory as your thematic foundation. You may already be familiar with some of these critical theory terms and techniques: formalism, feminism, reader-response, new historicism, psychoanalytic, etc. One of the most ...
Jean Anouilh’s Antigone attempts to escape fate just like her famous father does, but her fate is not the singular, individualized fate of Oedipus; Anouilh recreates Antigone’s story to make her a symbol of universal fate and in line with contemporary philosophic thought. Oedipus comes face to face with his fate from the Oracle at ...
Aeschylus was a dramatist who lived in the ancient Greek city of Athens. He treats his native city with honor in a drama entitled “Eumenides.” “Eumenides” is a somewhat unusual tragedy. No one dies, and it has a happy ending. However, it is the third play of a trilogy in which there is plenty of ...
The Greek drama Antigone, written by Sophocles in the fifth century, is a play about how far a sister will go to honor her recently deceased brother. It seems that the king of Thebes, Oedipus, had two sons: Eteocles and Polyneices. Eteocles drove Polyneices out of Thebes into Argos after their father passed away. Polyneices ...
An avid reader of mythology would be able to observe that the typical Greek myth will most likely contain at least one person who can be admired for their heroics. In a Greek myth the definition of a hero or heroine would be: “a figure who is representative of the individual who confronts conflicts similar ...
Most of the tragedies written by Greek authors in the fifth century before Christ have been lost, but some of the dramas of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides survive. Aeschylus, the oldest, died in 456 B.C. Sophocles and Euripides, his younger contemporaries, died a few years before the close of the Peloponnesian War in 404 B.C. ...
Her larger-than-life personality and the mystery of how a woman born with so much promise came to such a sad, reclusive life make Edith Bouvier Beale’s story fascinating. Of course the shirt-tail tie to the Bouvier-Kennedy dynasty adds glamour and interest. Her story was recently told in a Broadway musical and won her new fans. ...
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