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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...
Yahoo! Canada, August 25, 2009
...the University of Massachusetts, mostly Romantic and modern poetry and Great Books. His translations of eight plays by Euripides and Sophocles have been staged in 60 productions worldwide. Bagg has held Prix de Rome, Ingram Merrill, Guggenheim,...
The Australian, August 18, 2009
...the tragic poet Agathon, whose effeminate looks were as legendary as his homosexuality. The conversation runs as follows: Euripides: There is Agathon. Kinsman: You don't mean the sun-tanned strong one? Euripides: No, a different one. You've never seen...
BBC, August 7, 2009
...assessment couldn't be more timely. But can policy makers learn from it? Frank McGuinness' new version of Euripides' play, Helen at London's Globe Theatre nods towards ideas of the futilty of war too, meanwhileTom Payne's book Fame traces the origins of...
The Independent, August 2, 2009
...the world's media, is comparable, claims the author, to the tales of human sacrifice as told in Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis, in which hair is cut from the victim's head, symbolising their path to self-destruction. And the celebrity comparisons...
Washington Post, July 30, 2009
...540-592-3556. EVENING GREAT BOOKS CLUB, 7 p.m. Monday, Warrenton Library, 11 Winchester St. Discussion of 'Medea' by Euripides. New members welcome. Free. 540-364-4910. SOCRATES CAFE, for adults, 7 p.m. Aug. 11, Warrenton Library, 11 Winchester St. Group...
Suite101.com, July 29, 2009
...him to a statue of Ganymede. The Play Medea The play Medea is an ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides. The story is that of Jason (of Jason and the Argonauts) and Medea. The central plot is that of the woman scorned who seeks revenge. Jason has abandoned...
Observer, July 26, 2009
...ancient 'rite of passage' in which virgins cut off their locks before marriage (as you find mentioned in Euripides's play, Hippolytus)? And when Britney's hair ended up on eBay, was that not in fact a 'new kind of public site of worship'? When we collude...
Times Online, July 15, 2009
...often without even that. The picture of a researcher ? say into Byzantine palaeography or the mss of Euripides ? being able to do most of his or her work at home, or even on a remote Greek island, armed only with a sophisticated laptop and a CD of...
SignOn San Diego, June 8, 2009
...Thomas Carlyle's ?The French Revolution.? One donation brought a large set of classical works from Homer, Sophocles, Euripides and Thucydides. The small but diverse reference collection included encyclopedias, biographies, government reports, law...
Broadway World, May 25, 2009
...six new installments this season: Aristophanes? The Knights in September; William Shakespeare?s Troilus and Cressida in November; Euripides and Seneca?s versions of Medea in January; Women Beware Women by Thomas Middleton in February; August...
Examiner.com, May 16, 2009
...speak of in comparison to other games. Yet the works of writers from the dawn of civilization like Euripides or Aescylus or Homer still hold their own even to this date and possess merits that allow their respective works to be read and re-read across...
Examiner.com, May 16, 2009
...speak of in comparison to other games. Yet the works of writers from the dawn of civilization like Euripides or Aescylus or Homer still hold their own even to this date and possess merits that allow their respective works to be read and re-read across...
AINA, May 8, 2009
...Among their latest findings: An alternate version of the Greek play Medea, later immortalized in a version by Euripides, on a darkened piece of papyrus, dated to the 2nd century A.D. In the newly discovered version -- written by Greek playwright Neophron...
Playbill, April 24, 2009
...Night (directed by Anthony Luciano) and The Taming of the Shrew (directed by Brian McManamon) as well as Euripides' The Trojan Women (directed by Dennis Reid). All performances will be held in the Outdoor Amphitheater on the Vassar campus Friday-Monday...
Broadway World, April 24, 2009
...--free Powerhouse Apprentice Company performances of works by Shakespeare (Twelfth Night and The Taming of the Shrew) and Euripides (The Trojan Women); -- Before curtain on Friday and Saturday evenings during the Powerhouse season, several area...
National Post, April 18, 2009
...licence to create her own Oresteia, a trilogy comprised of her translations of Aeschylus? Agamemnon, Sophocles? Electra and Euripides? Orestes. These rather jarring juxtapositions result in a work that seems both familiar and strange, a sort of...
Catholic San Francisco, April 6, 2009
...interpreter with delusions of superior wisdom. Precisely because we are so far from the author's world - Euripides, Shakespeare, yes, Williams - it is incumbent on us to seek the author's meaning and not impose one of our own. Mendelsohn is such a...
Lake Wylie Pilot, March 25, 2009
...his son Orestes in an impossible dilemma. Carson translates one play each from Aeschylus ('Agamemnon'), Sophocles ('Elektra'), and Euripides ('Orestes'), for a brand-new cycle.Her translations are in this moment's English, drolly modern even as...
Macon Telegraph, March 25, 2009
...his son Orestes in an impossible dilemma. Carson translates one play each from Aeschylus ('Agamemnon'), Sophocles ('Elektra'), and Euripides ('Orestes'), for a brand-new cycle. Her translations are in this moment's English, drolly modern even as they...
The Independent, March 19, 2009
...is as good as a feast. All the new moralists could take as a motto the lines from Euripides' Electra that begins The Spirit Level: 'Once a man be done with hunger, rich and poor are all as one'. With the heads of an entire society throbbing in post-boom...
The Independent, March 19, 2009
...is as good as a feast. All the new moralists could take as a motto the lines from Euripides' Electra that begins The Spirit Level: 'Once a man be done with hunger, rich and poor are all as one'. With the heads of an entire society throbbing in post-boom...
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...
Hopi Sen, August 18, 2009
...wishing to read of the misery and suffering of others. Fr’example, the characters of Dickens, Dostoyevsky or Euripides (especailly Euripides, now I come to think of it) are pretty much ripe for the Dave Pelzer treatment. The orphaned child, the...
All Manner of Thing, August 18, 2009
...includes Goethe, Joyce (the major works have been sitting there on the shelf for years), Proust, Whitman, Dickinson, Euripides (!), and others. In consequence, I couldn’t put them on the list. Also, like many people these days I have a blind spot...
BBC NEWS | Talk about Newsnight, August 7, 2009
...assessment couldn't be more timely. But can policy makers learn from it? Frank McGuinness' new version of Euripides' play, Helen at London's Globe Theatre nods towards ideas of the futilty of war too, meanwhileTom Payne's book Fame traces the origins of...
Wikisource - Recent changes [en], June 9, 2009
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Wikisource - Recent changes [en], June 9, 2009
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Scribd Feed, June 6, 2009
...PGCC Collection: Hippolytus/The Bacchae, by EuripidesWorld eBook Library PGCC Collection Bringing the world's eBook Collection Together http://www.WorldLibrary.net Project Gutenberg Consortia Center is a member of the World eBook Library Consortia,...
Wikisource - Recent changes [en], June 2, 2009
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e-Books Baba, April 24, 2009
...Gender and the City in Euripides’ Political Plays by Daniel Mendelsohn Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA 2005 | 276 Pages | ISBN: 0199278040 | PDF | 1.1 MB The first full-length study of Children of...
Siris, April 20, 2009
...Justice. Orson Scott Card, The Changed Man. J. R. R. Tolkien, The Shaping of Middle Earth. Paul Woodruff, Euripides: Bacchae. Werner Heisenberg, Physics and Philosophy. Anne Rice, The Road to Cana. James Blish and Robert Lowndes, The Duplicated Man. J....
PARENTING FREEDOM.com, April 20, 2009
...Stephen Mansfield Endless Steppe ~ Hautzig House Of Seven Gables ~ Milton Stern Bacchae And Other Stories ~ Euripides Crime And Punishment ~ David Mcduff Brideshead Revisited Centennial Edition ~ Evelyn Waugh Hard Times ~ Kate Flint Lord Jim ~ Joseph...
