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The curtain had fallen on the Gesher Theater’s production of Aeschylus’ great trilogy, the Oresteia. What struck many reviewers was how closely the political and moral issues facing the ...

Prometheus is being punished by Zeus for giving man fire and knowledge of the arts. He is chained to a rock by Hephaestus and is left to suffer alone. As Prometheus endures his torment, he remains ...

Seeing works by Sophocles and Aeschylus in their native land imparts indelible lessons about pain and memory. The cemetery in Sidiro, a small Greek village near the Turkish border, where about 200 ...

Ancient Greek playwright Aeschylus filled his tragedies with death, so much so that he was known as “the Father of Tragedy”—and supposedly, his own demise was suitably dramatic. According to ...

Clytemnestra and Aegisthus ruled Argos while Agamemnon was at Troy, where the war went on for ten years. The Greeks captured and looted the city, divided the treasure and sailed for home.