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Naples Daily News, July 18, 2010
...Will Stutts Feb. 11 - 26 - "Shipwrecked! An Entertainment" March 18 - April 3 - "Medea" by Euripides Theatre Conspiracy performs at the Foulds Theatre in the Lee County Alliance for the Arts complex at 10091 McGregor Boulevard in Fort Myers. Volunteers...
AllAfrica.com, July 12, 2010
...Dwellers, The Strong Breed, The Road (1965) and Death and the King's Horseman. In The Bacchae of Euripides (1973), he has rewritten the Bacchae for the African stage and in Opera Wonyosi, bases himself on John Gay's Beggar's Opera and Brecht's The...
Bookslut, July 6, 2010
...and felt love and mirth and sorrow and anger and energy and terror and disgust and astonishment. Aeschylus, Euripides, and Sophocles wrote a combined total of between two and three-hundred plays -- only thirty-three of which survived. So maybe last night...
Bristol Evening Post, July 1, 2010
...put together by Barbara more than 30 years ago. 'In 1976, while teaching at Red Maids, I co-produced Euripides' great tragedy Medea, with my friend and fellow Classics teacher James Bradby, who was then teaching at Bristol Grammar School,' she explains....
Irish Times, June 18, 2010
...many harbingers point to a virtuosic poet in the making: ?In school we are doing Tacitus, Statius and Euripides (Electra) . . . We have just done a delightful mock poem by Statius on a parrot. It would go splendidly into Heroic Couplets. I must try that...
Keep Media, May 12, 2010
...for most horrifying mother in literature by clicking the 'Participate' button below. Killed her two sons, according to Euripides, to exact revenge on Jason. Now, was that necessary? (Depiction by Cezanne) > Total comments: 285 |...
Globe and Mail, May 11, 2010
...Austin Clarke to the broader traditions of literature that were expounded by such voices as Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and Euripides. Bravo. The work of a good critic is to join the dots, to connect the contemporary to the broader tradition, the regional to...
Globe and Mail, May 11, 2010
...Austin Clarke to the broader traditions of literature that were expounded by such voices as Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and Euripides. Bravo. The work of a good critic is to join the dots, to connect the contemporary to the broader tradition, the regional to...
NPR, May 10, 2010
...and August 1914, by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. No work has better insights on the folly of war, however, than Euripides' Trojan Women or Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War. Although many contemporary critics find it passe to document landmark...
Times Online, May 8, 2010
...An extremely high-culture hound, Maf can scarcely open his muzzle without a quote from Wallace Stevens, lines from Euripides, a comment on Proust or some rumination about The Fragments of Posidonius spilling out (Paws for Thought, you cant help feeling,...
Telegraph, April 23, 2010
...or any other, election has ever approached the manipulative subtlety of Iago. As with the Greek playwrights, Sophocles, Euripides and Aristophanes, the dramas move deeply into the human psyche. They portray all the seven archetypal plots described by...
Guardian.co.uk, April 10, 2010
...soil for a very long time. Jay Parini's The Last Station is published by Canongate. Poetry Homer Euripides Jay Parini guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds...
Guardian.co.uk, April 9, 2010
...soil for a very long time. Jay Parini's The Last Station is published by Canongate. Poetry Homer Euripides Jay Parini guardian.co.uk © Guardian News & Media Limited 2010 | Use of this content is subject to our Terms & Conditions | More Feeds...
PR-GB, April 1, 2010
...tour held by the office manager allowed us to find such classics as the tragedies of Sophocles and Euripides, the works of Shakespeare and Dante. It may seem to be inconvenient to work with a real book, one of the writers shares her impressions....
Broadway World, March 31, 2010
...of Peach Blossom Fan. La Compagnia de'Colombari's: (God in Orvieto) Laude in Urbis, Getty Villa: (Nurse) Euripides' Hippolytos. Television Credits include LA Law, In The Heat of The Night, Quantum Leap, Some Kind of Love, Wes Craven's Newest Nightmare,...
Qatar Tribune, March 16, 2010
...were not set out by me. They were set out 2,000 years ago by Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. They were called the Greek tragedies. A thriller is supposed to thrill. A horror novel is supposed to scare you. A mystery is supposed to keep you turning...
Forbes.com via MSN Money, March 16, 2010
...unfamiliar with the legal thriller genre. Sparks goes on to compare his work to Shakespeare, Jane Austen and Euripides (all worked in the "love story" genre, you see) then comes my favorite quote of all: "A Farewell to Arms, by Hemingway. Good stuff....
Broadway World, February 18, 2010
...the world-premiere of Michi Barall's play "RESCUE ME (A Post-modern classic with snacks)", an adaptation of Euripides "Iphigenia in Taurus," previewing March 23 and opening March 30 at the Ohio Theatre (66 Wooster St.) in Manhattan. The cast of eight...
New York Times, February 15, 2010
...20th century - as well as, through our Poets' Theater, numerous adaptations of the work of Shakespeare, Sophocles, Euripides, Homer, Dante, Virginia Woolf, Dylan Thomas and Samuel Beckett. As August Wilson once said, appearing at the 92nd Street Y's...
New York Times, February 15, 2010
...20th century - as well as, through our Poets' Theater, numerous adaptations of the work of Shakespeare, Sophocles, Euripides, Homer, Dante, Virginia Woolf, Dylan Thomas and Samuel Beckett. As August Wilson once said, appearing at the 92nd Street Y's...
Skidmore College, February 14, 2010
...Philological Association, Scodel has published extensively on the epic poetry of Homer and the tragedies of Sophocles and Euripides. Her recent books include Listening to Homer: Tradition, Narrative, and Audience (University of Michigan Press, 2002), and...
Washington Post, February 3, 2010
...Mention the name of the ancient Greek tragedian Euripides, and most people will not think "Thelma & Louise." But acclaimed director Aaron Posner and cutting-edge playwright Anne Washburn reference just that film when discussing "Orestes," Euripides' 5th...
Washington Post, February 3, 2010
...this stylistic potpourri is currently on view in "Orestes, A Tragic Romp," Washburn's translation-with-liberties of the Euripides original. Posner stages this Folger Theatre world premiere, co-produced by New Jersey's Two River Theater Company, where he...
Guardian.co.uk, January 23, 2010
...Montaigne's teachings are brought vividly to life in this fine study, says Ruth Scurr Before he was famous, the essayist Michel Eyquem de Montaigne brushed shoulders with death on a bridle path, some time in 1569 or early 1570. He was 36 and he liked to...
Guardian.co.uk, January 23, 2010
... Montaigne's teachings are brought vividly to life in this fine study, says Ruth Scurr Montaigne: ‘Intense awareness of the individuality of himself and others.’ Bridgeman Art Library Before he was famous, the essayist Michel Eyquem de Montaigne...
Yorkshire Post, January 22, 2010
...THE retelling of a passionate tale like Medea by Euripides calls for a talented and passionate writer – someone, in fact, like Tom Paulin. The story is by turns intensely emotional, shocking, gripping, appalling and cathartic. Anyone tackling a new...
Times Argus, January 20, 2010
...s Arcadia, Thomasina mourns the burning of the library of Alexandria and the losses of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides — all of Aristotle's own library destroyed. And the image has for years made me think of my father, all his erudition and...
China Org, January 20, 2010
...s Arcadia, Thomasina mourns the burning of the library of Alexandria and the losses of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides — all of Aristotle's own library destroyed. And the image has for years made me think of my father, all his erudition and...
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, January 20, 2010
...s Arcadia, Thomasina mourns the burning of the library of Alexandria and the losses of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides -- all of Aristotle's own library destroyed. And the image has for years made me think of my father, all his erudition and knowledge...
Boston Globe, January 20, 2010
...classics in 1959, and a doctorate in comparative literature in 1965. He published books on the Greek tragedian Euripides and the comic Roman playwright Plautus before writing Love Story. After being denied tenure at Yale, Dr. Segal settled in England,...
Adelaide Now, January 20, 2010
...s Arcadia, Thomasina mourns the burning of the library of Alexandria and the losses of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides - all of Aristotle's own library destroyed. And the image has for years made me think of my father, all his erudition and knowledge...
Trend News Agency, January 20, 2010
...s Arcadia, Thomasina mourns the burning of the library of Alexandria and the losses of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides - all of Aristotle's own library destroyed. And the image has for years made me think of my father, all his erudition and knowledge...
Adelaide Now, January 19, 2010
...s Arcadia, Thomasina mourns the burning of the library of Alexandria and the losses of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides - all of Aristotle's own library destroyed. And the image has for years made me think of my father, all his erudition and knowledge...
KansasCity.com, January 19, 2010
...s Arcadia, Thomasina mourns the burning of the library of Alexandria and the losses of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides - all of Aristotle's own library destroyed. And the image has for years made me think of my father, all his erudition and knowledge...
Newsvine, January 19, 2010
...s Arcadia, Thomasina mourns the burning of the library of Alexandria and the losses of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides all of Aristotle's own library destroyed. And the image has for years made me think of my father, all his erudition and knowledge...
Guardian.co.uk, January 4, 2010
...brother, but no doubt also driven by her own considerable literary ambitions. Her translation of the Medea of Euripides was published in 1868. ( See here for a more recent translation of the play ). Medea was the barbarian princess and sorceress from...
Salt Lake Tribune, December 28, 2009
...named the new music director of the Utah Symphony. BYU barred a rockin' University of Utah production of Euripides' play 'The Bakkhai,' reportedly on the urging of quarterback Max Hall, who found it classless. October David Archuleta released a Christmas...
National Review, December 10, 2009
...books you might otherwise not have gotten to. (On the subway today, I read the Phoenician Women of Euripides, which I don’t remember ever having read before.) I am a techno-ignoramus: the last person in the world without a cellphone, and -- as people...
Toledoblade.com, December 6, 2009
...Nicholas Murray Butler listing about 150 books he had read in a two-year period, including Thucydides, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and at least four volumes in French - would not have felt the need to have that information distributed. Mr. Obama's...
Yahoo! News, December 6, 2009
...Nicholas Murray Butler, listing about 150 books he had read in a two-year period, including Thucydides, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and at least four volumes in French -- would not have felt the need to have that information distributed. Obama's...
Lawrence Journal-World, December 6, 2009
...Nicholas Murray Butler, listing about 150 books he had read in a two-year period, including Thucydides, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides and at least four volumes in French — would not have felt the need to have that information distributed. Obama’s...
Telegraph, December 2, 2009
...just one indication of the seriousness with which this director, famous for her intense productions of Chekhov and Euripides, Strindberg and Dostoevsky, is adapting Dr Seuss’s The Cat in The Hat for the stage. “We have been showing the children...
Comic Book Resources, November 24, 2009
...think it would start to get above my space in life to consider there is a line from Euripides to Sophocles to Peter Milligan [laughs]. As much as I'd like to suggest that there is some kind of connective tissue linking us, there actually may be one. We...
Suite101.com, November 14, 2009
...Antigone, Becket or The Honour of God, and The Lark. He adapted and translated works of Sophocles and Euripides. Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh was born in June 23, 1910 in Bordeau, south-western France. After studying law, he worked in advertising,...
Suite101.com, November 11, 2009
...but the media doesnt know how to handle it. Im educated and I keep learning. I read Aristophanes, Euripides, I just re-read The Clouds recently. There is a quote over my bed that reads Excellence is not an act but a habit. TM - Thats right, Ive sold a...
Livemint.com, October 23, 2009
...and if you ask me about my inspiration, I go back to the ancient Greek plays. What is Euripides’ Medea about? It’s about a woman killing her children because of jealousy. The difference is that in today’s crime fiction we have police officers.Is...
Free Dominion, October 18, 2009
...abroad with Robert Redford, glassed down, tweed in display, or snarly George Clooney sermonizing, like the choruses of Euripides tragedies. The usual themes some evil corporation is destroying something (fill in the blanks: the environment, the...
Broadway World, October 6, 2009
...the Artistic Director of The Shakespeare Project of Chicago and has directed his adaptations of Dickens, Moliere, Ibsen, Euripides, Shakespeare, Marlowe and Goethe. His stage credits include Writers' Theatre, Chicago Shakespeare, The Women's Project of...
Elon University, September 25, 2009
...Misgivings: My Mother, My Father, Myself, in 2000, and he has published translations of Sophocles? Women of Trachis, Euripides? Bacchae, and poems of Francis Ponge, among others. A book of essays, Poetry and Consciousness, appeared in 1998. Recently...
Writing with Zette, August 17, 2010
...I'm going to read anyway. The print is, unfortunately, small and there is a hellish lot of Euripides to get through before I can get to the fun stuff of Aristophanes. It is going to take a while, but a little at a time. I can do it...
Charge Shot!!!, August 6, 2010
...are basically adaptations of oral history. Every instance of deus ex machina was the playwright, be it Euripides or whoever, borrowing elements from a shared mythology to tell a compelling story. Shakespeare adapted classics like The Twin...
Homeschool Journal Dot Net, July 30, 2010
...How do you like that title? Pretty “epic” right? LOL! Well, this post is long enough to nearly qualify for epic status, but I hope you’ll bear with me. Anyway, today I share my plans for Superboy’s history studies for this coming year. He chose...
Beth Fish Reads, July 25, 2010
...Cleopatra stood at one of the most dangerous intersections in history: that of women and power. Clever women, Euripides had warned hundreds of years earlier, were dangerous. (p. 4) The Wake of Forgiveness by Bruce Machart ( Houghton Mifflin Harcourt ;...
Tin House Books Blog, June 9, 2010
...know how to tell them. Said Thucydides.” The Classics–“ Andromache. Alcestis. Helen. Medea. The Bacchae. Each of which Euripides ends with his chorus speaking an identical verse—to the effect that the ways of the gods are unpredictable.” ...
In Iraq Now (at 56), January 6, 2010
...mightier than the sword.” He was certainly not the only to have this opinion, joining greats like Euripides, Shakespeare, and Thomas Jefferson. The sentiment has been germane through the ages, and the current era is no different. Although serving...
Age 30+ ... A Lifetime of Books, January 4, 2010
...Annie Bryson, Bill Casares, Argentine Adolfo Bioy Child, Julia Cooper, James Fenimore Dickens, Charles Dinesen, Isak Eisdorfer, Erica Euripides Goldman, Duff Heller, Joseph Jordan, Robert Jordan, Robert and Brandon Sanderson King, Laurie R. Lahiri,...
Books: Books blog | guardian.co.uk, January 4, 2010
...brother, but no doubt also driven by her own considerable literary ambitions. Her translation of the Medea of Euripides was published in 1868. ( See here for a more recent translation of the play ). Medea was the barbarian princess and sorceress from...
Ex Libris, December 20, 2009
...B.C.?) Aeschylus (c.525-456 B.C.) Sophocles (c.495-406 B.C.) Herodotus (c.484-425 B.C.) Euripides (c.485-406 B.C.) Thucydides (c.460-400 B.C.) Hippocrates (c.460-377? B.C.) Aristophanes (c.448-380 B.C.) Plato (c.427-347 B.C.) Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)...
ABORTION PARTY!'s MySpace Blog, December 19, 2009
...and typing on my computer. I am in the middle of reading ELECTRA , a Greek play written by Euripides (written around mid 410s B.C). I don't know why, but reading an ancient Greek drama seems the perfect thing to do after watching AVATAR. Well, the movie...
A Novel Challenge, December 15, 2009
...B.C.?) Aeschylus (c.525-456 B.C.) Sophocles (c.495-406 B.C.) Herodotus (c.484-425 B.C.) Euripides (c.485-406 B.C.) Thucydides (c.460-400 B.C.) Hippocrates (c.460-377? B.C.) Aristophanes (c.448-380 B.C.) Plato (c.427-347 B.C.) Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)...
Net News Publisher, November 12, 2009
...made with the “losers” of the Trojan War. Those who were not slaughtered were enslaved, and we have Euripides to remind of the full extent of humiliation associated with that slavery. While the motivation for war may have been a matter of ...
Fierce and Nerdy, October 20, 2009
...week, in anticipation of a night out at the theater, I picked up the Dover Thrift Edition of Euripides’ Medea . It’s difficult to form expectations of a piece first produced in 431 BC. I’d kind of imagined that Euripides would have created an...
50 Book Challenge, October 1, 2009
... Alas, finished with the series. What will I look forward to reading now? 107. Heracleidae - Euripides A Greek play about the children of Heracles and their persecution by this Dude. They run to Athens...
Semicolon, September 28, 2009
...my more mature perspective on the books, too, if I remember enough about them to do so. Author: Euripides, one of the trio of great Greek dramatists which includes Sophocles and Aeschylus, lived during the fifth century BC. He wrote approximately...
Beggar's Shot Glass, September 15, 2009
...“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.” -Plato “Judge a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves” -Euripides “They may forget what you said, but they will never forget...
