Several of the most influential Greek philosophers and thinkers are portrayed in Raphael's masterpiece the School of Athens ...

Sarah Ruhl is a playwright and essayist. Her new book, “Lessons from My Teachers,” comes out May 5, and her play “Eurydice,” starring Maya Hawke, will be performed in New York at Signature ...

And with certain characters caught in an inevitable doom, this was actually a modern-day Greek tragedy. The response to this season ... The next day at breakfast she will say, “Amor Fati,” to Rick, ...

Carson, a poet and Classicist, published two translations of Sophokles’ tragedy, one in 2012 titled “Antigonick ... “And then I had the pleasure of directing her as Stella in ‘A Streetcar Named Desire ...

Carson, a poet and classicist, published two translations of Sophokles’ tragedy, one in 2012 titled “Antigonick ... “And then I had the pleasure of directing her as Stella in ‘A Streetcar Named Desire ...

The show takes elements of classic Greek theater ... that can come from tragedy when it's done right." Senior Tirzah McGill plays Antigone's sister, Ismene. The character has to decide whether ...

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 ...

“But I also think that sometimes there’s something a little bit hopeful in a tragedy in that we can see the path and the journey that this character and these characters have gone on and the choices ...

The story of Eurydice, a character in Greek mythology, draws parallels in the tragedy stakes with Shakespeare’s Juliet. Following Orpheus’ (Keaton Guimarães-Tolley) proposal to Eurydice (Eve ...

But it eventually evolves into a story that is full on Greek tragedy: one with spilled blood, incest and an off-stage death. “I’m telling you there’s some bad juju in the air,” comments one character ...

No, not Daredevil’s highly trained assassin adversary / love interest, but the central character from Sophocles’ Greek tragedy who gives her name to the neo-Freudian Electra complex which ...

But what Greek mythology inspired the series, and what tales do you need to know? If you were a fan of Baz Luhrmann's take on Romeo and Juliet, you need to get KAOS on your must-watch list ...