Wuthering
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I am quoting the end of Alcestis by Euripides, his early whatever it is, not a tragedy, not a satyr play, not a comedy.  Admetos has won ba...

The Frogs by Aristophanes is this week’s play.  It was performed in what now look like the waning days of Athens, just before their conques...

Here we see, in a representation likely dated fairly close to The Eumenides (458 BCE), Apollo protecting Orestes from a Fury, from the Br...

  ELECTRA:   Everything dies – the dust is forgotten. How can we hope to do what has to be done?   (Hughes, 109) Robert Fagles calls it ...

Agamemnon by Aeschylus.  What a quotable play.  Here’s a two-line summary: CHORUS:  Where is the right and wrong In this nightmare?  (7...

This week’s play is Prometheus Bound , by Aeschylus, or maybe not – A Common Reader here reviews a book arguing the “not” case – and first ...

That is almost literally what The Suppliants or The Suppliant Women (463 BCE) is, the prelude to what is likely a more tragic, more intere...

I fear shipwreck, I fear unspeakable things, the city’s destruction, the foul death of two kings. (54) That is the chorus of women in Se...

That little tag (l. 814, p. 145) about disaster could be from many Greek tragedies, but it is specifically from The Persians by Aeschylus (...

Let’s read the ancient Greek plays next year.  All of them.  There are not so many, and they are generally short. I’ll read them all, one ...