Letter: John Starbuck argues the case for Emily Brontë’s novel to be filmed as a trilogy ...

IN the revolt against the long primacy of the classics we find united temporarily, by the bond of common hostility, several camps that on other questions are much at variance with one another. There ...

Greek tragedy is radical because it does not treat the chorus as passive, but as a surrogate public, a dramatized citizen body, letting them assert their editorial viewpoint through songs and odes as ...

The COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting social, political and economic crisis have had an impact on every feature of human society, including artistic and cultural life. The series Reading Greek ...

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In one of the most significant discoveries related to Ancient Greek literature over the past half century, archaeologists have uncovered around 100 lines from two otherwise lost plays by the ...

A notable figure who blazed the trail for Greek tragedy was a man named Thespis. A poet and actor, Thespis began to act out individual characters by switching between different masks. In its earliest ...

During the Covid-19 pandemic, being a frontline healthcare worker has been one of the most difficult jobs, involving both personal and professional challenges which are truly unprecedented. Many ...

To me, Anne Carson is a literary gorilla—exotic, powerful, yet arousing a protective instinct in my homey breast. I say a genius writes anything she wants. Alas. Carson’s publications—poems, ...

The ongoing contest with China is transforming America’s domestic and international policies, raising an alarming corollary to Graham Allison’s “Thucydides Trap.” Drawing upon Thucydides, Allison ...