In her new book, "A Greek Tragedy," Jeanne Carstensen investigates a deadly 2015 shipwreck off the Greek island of Lesvos, ...

Our picks for the best shows and films that delve into mythology feature fresh takes on the well-known lore of Greek, ...

My late classics professor taught me that Ancient Greek tragedy dramatized different points of view, insisted on empathy, and warned against hubris. What would he have made of our current moment?

Journalist Jeanne Carstensen writes about the incident in the book "A Greek Tragedy: One Day, a Deadly Shipwreck and the Human Cost of the Refugee Crisis" and talks with host Deepa Fernandes about ...

This starry casting guaranteed publicity and early ticket sales; but alas, these two Greek tragedies have "never looked so bonkers – or less tragic". Sporting a buzz-cut and a punk T-shirt ...

After consulting the famous Oracle of Delphi, Cadmus was told by the gods to abandon his hunt for Europa and instead pursue a…cow with unusual characteristics ... according to Greek mythology, the ...

A judicial investigation is still in progress over the collision of a freight train and a passenger train packed with students near Tempe, outside the city of Larissa, just before ...

Remarkably, Monteiro claims that in the immediate area, there are almost 250 shipwrecks that hold treasure with similar characteristics ... According to the marine archaeologist, the biggest tragedy ...

This time approximately 40 Pakistanis died. As was the case in 2023, officialdom blamed human smugglers for the latest Greek tragedy and vowed to hunt them down. But if things carried on as usual ...

According to director Chani Ninneman, the fall production of "Antigone: 3021" by Nina Mansfield is a modern interpretation of the classic Sophocles tragedy ... of classic Greek theater, such ...

The first is a French adaptation of the Greek tragedy written by Jean Anouilh, and the second is a German retelling by Bertolt Brecht. First performed in Nazi-occupied Paris, Anouilh placed ...