IT could have been Aeschylus, the Greek tragedian or Phillip Gibbs, the journalist who covered the First World War, who probably coined the all-time enduring aphorism. During war, the first casualty ...

The invention of democracy and the role of judges can be traced back to ancient Greece. It is the subject of Aeschylus’ ...

Electra’s tragic myth inspired Carl Jung’s Electra complex, shaping psychological views on father-daughter relationships.

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Whether it's Athens and Sparta or the U.S., Israel and Iran, the lessons (and the tragedies) remain the same for Trump and ...

Aeschylus, the first of the great Athenian tragedians, wrote Choephori and Eumenides for performance at the City Dionysia in 458 BC, a festival in honour of the god Dionysus. They are the second and ...

Aristophanes, the great comic dramatist of Athens, wrote the Frogs for performance at the Lenaia in late February 405 BC, where it won first prize. The play was written against the backdrop of the ...

AEschylus is the exponent of the old faith of Greece-- stern, simple, resolute, strong in self-restraint. Euripides, on the other hand, has to take account of all the novel influences under which ...