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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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 ...

Now this is interesting. From the Miami Herald: Now, a liberal- and moderate-leaning coalition of about 70 law professors, attorneys and former Florida Supreme Court justices is attacking Bondi ...

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Just as Aristophanes’s Dionysos had to descend to the Underworld and choose whether Aeschylus or Euripides would be a better influence on Athens’s struggling, wartorn society, Sondheim’s ...

He takes his slave Xanthias with him, with predictably hilarious consequences. In the original, Dionysos went to bring back Euripides and was won over by Aeschylus instead.

Other playwrights who might appear are Euripides, who wrote Medea, and Aeschylus, who wrote the Oresteia, the only complete trilogy of Greek theater that survived to the modern era.