Euripides: Trojan Women
By Barbara Goff Abstract: Set at the end of the Trojan war, “Euripides’ Trojan Women” depicts the women of Troy as they wait to be taken into slavery. While choral songs recall the death-throes of the great city, the…
By Barbara Goff Abstract: Set at the end of the Trojan war, “Euripides’ Trojan Women” depicts the women of Troy as they wait to be taken into slavery. While choral songs recall the death-throes of the great city, the…
By Grace Starry West Abstract: This article considers how Virgil uses Andromache to characterise and contrast Dido. Article in The American Journal of Philology Vol. 104, No. 3, p257-267. The Johns Hopkins University…
by Yiqun Zhou Abstract: Ancient China and Greece are two classical civilisations that have exerted far-reaching influence in numerous areas of human experience and are often invoked as the paradigms in East-West…
By Edith Hall Abstract: Incest, polygamy, murder, sacrilege, impalement, castration, female power, and despotism: these are some of the images by which the Greek tragedians defined the non-Greek, `barbarian’ world.…
By Olakunbi Olasope Abstract: The highly spirited heroine of the Antigone ensured that her deceased brother Polynices was given a decent burial by sprinkling dust and pouring three cups of libation on his corpse. By…