By Emma Bridges, Edith Hall, and P. J. Rhodes Abstract: This introductory chapter begins with a brief discussion of the purpose of the book, which is to throw the maximum possible fresh light on both the consistency of…
By Spike Lee Chi-Raq is a film by Spike Lee, a prominent Black director whose films centre around racism and anti-black violence in America. He takes Lysistrata and places it in the gang wars of Chicago, translating…
With guest Edith Hall The theater was invented in ancient Athens, and its invention may have been connected to the emergence of democracy. In fact, public entertainment contributed in important ways to the functioning…
Edited by Edith Hall and Henry Stead This online archive details working class scholars and their “encounters” with Greco-Roman antiquity. These sources provide an introduction to the many lost and excluded voices of…
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.…