King Creon was styled as a modern-day authoritarian ... temple complexes for the healing of body and mind, in the ancient Greek world; the one in Epidaurus was the most important.

Director Gabrielle Randle-Bent makes Greek tragedy look easy ... leaving the leadership of Thebes to their uncle Creon. Creon, determined to show authority and moral clarity, has buried Eteocles ...

Haemon, Creon’s son and Antigone’s lover ... that dotted the hillsides throughout the many city-states of ancient Greece. But whereas Athenian democracy ended, as did the writings of these ...

is considered to be one of the most produced ancient Greek tragedies. Nevertheless, it’s not something you can see very frequently, even in a university town. Luckily, it’s now running at the ...

That’s because Creon refuses to let one of her also deceased brothers, Polynices, be buried according to traditional Greek custom, considering him a traitor in a recent civil war—and decreeing ...

REUTERS/Stelios Misinas Konstantinos Bougiotis, 37, performs in the role of King Creon, along with other inmates in the ancient Greek tragedy ‘Antigone’, at the yard in Korydallos prison ...

Greek tragedy is a powerful and profound form ... the daughter of Oedipus, and her uncle Creon, who has taken the throne following the deaths of her two brothers in a power struggle.

My favorite class to teach traces connections between eros and transcendence, starting with ancient Greek literature ...

A University of Cincinnati expert in ancient Greek wants to produce the most authentic ... in ‘Antigone’ is not Antigone but her uncle Creon, the king who follows the letter of the law without ...

This may be a little surprising, because ancient Greece was under strict patriarchal ... and ultimately kill one another, the new king, Creon, orders that only Eteocles, whom he considers to ...