What we now think of as Greek tragedy is a relatively small corpus from the fifth century B.C., fewer than three dozen plays from the hundreds that were produced over the course of that century.

Melding 3 Ancient Versions of the Ultimate Greek Tragedy. At the Salzburg Festival, a new adaptation of “The Oresteia” will put a classic story of war, democracy and revenge into a modern context.

Archaeology & History Fragments of Previously ‘Lost’ Euripides Tragedies Have Been Translated. The discovery is among the most important in ancient Greek literature over the past 60 years.

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There are, for example, ... A Greek tragedy, we are told, is but a slender streamlet beside the mighty river of Shakespeare’s presentation of human life and passion in a Hamlet or a Macbeth.