Tag Archives: Aeschylus

Drama Shows Us a Way Out of Violence

By Robin Bates | Published: March 14, 2016

New School philosophy professor Simon Critchley argues that theatre and the arts in general are vital in helping societies understand and moderate endemic violence. Aeschylus’s “Oresteia” and Shakespeare’s “Hamlet” are particularly important.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Eumenides, Hamlet, Oresteia, theater, violence, William Shakespeare | Comments closed

Germany vs. Greece, a Greek Tragedy

By Robin Bates | Published: September 27, 2015

Novelist Tim McCarthy argues that the economic collision between Germany and Greece reenacts a number of the classic Greek tragedies, most notably “Oedipus” and “The Oresteia.” But Athena may not intervene in this instance.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Agamemnon, Oedipus, Oresteia, Sophocles | Comments closed

Top 10 Hellish Child-Parent Relationships

By Robin Bates | Published: March 26, 2014

Top 10 Literary Parent-Child Relationships from Hell.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged "All that Rises Must Converge", "Daddy", "Letter to a Dead Father", Brothers Karamazov, D. H. Lawrence, Euripides, Flannery O'Connor, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Hamlet, King Lear, Medea, Midsummer Night's Dream, Oedipus, Oresteia, parents and children, Phillip K. Roth, Portnoy's Complaint, Richard Shelton, Romeo and Juliet, Sons and Lovers, Sophocles, Sylvia Plath, William Shakespeare | Comments closed

JFK as Ancient Greek Hero

By Robin Bates | Published: November 26, 2013

Ancient Greek literature provides us with a power lens through which to examine the John F. Kennedy assassination.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Bacchae, Epic, Euripides, Homer, Iliad, Iphigenia, John F. Kennedy, Oedipus, Oresteia, Sophocles, tragedy | Comments closed