The Persians dives headfirst into the human wreckage of war, forcing audiences to confront empathy for the "enemy," the perils of hubris, and the enduring arrogance of empires. Written in 472 BCE by ...

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The harrowing images of the migrant crisis convulsing Europe have challenged the world’s conscience. Who could look at the photo of the dead Syrian boy washed ashore and remain indifferent to the ...

Aesychlus' "Persians" gets a simultaneously avant-garde and classical treatment at the Getty Villa in Malibu By Myron Meisel Persians Still - H 2014 Essentially the ancient-world equivalent of a story ...

This week, the actor Lia Williams visited a butcher’s shop. There, she learned how to stab a knife through live flesh and ribs: to feel in her arm and hand what it is to cut through a body, through ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- "The Omen of the Eagles and the Ethos of Agamemnon," an article by John Peradotto, Ph.D., of Amherst, emeritus SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor and former faculty member in the ...

Loizides’ previous productions, Bacchae and Troades, received warm welcomes wherever they were performed during their world tours in 2008 and 2009. The success of these productions has strengthened ...

An exhilarating present-day reworking of Aeschylus gives free rein to female power “I felt so alive once I’d killed him.” As the husband-slayer Clytemnestra, a magnificent Lia Williams moves catlike ...

Instead of depicting the Trojan War from Homer’s “Iliad” as originally deduced, the mosaic may be of the same conflict in Aeschylus’ “Phrygians.” ...