Tag Archives: Euripides

Killing the Messenger of Bad News

By Robin Bates | Published: August 3, 2025

Trump has shot the messenger in firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Plutarch, Euripides and Shakespeare have scenes with this dynamic.

By Robin Bates | Published: December 30, 2024

Milton’s Paradise Lost, banned by a Florida County this past year, exposes the hypocrites who have taken it off school library shelves.

By Robin Bates | Published: July 18, 2024

A female tourist in Florence was recently photographed humping a statue of Dionysus. Euripides would understand.

By Robin Bates | Published: January 11, 2024

A Florida County has pulled “Paradise Lost” from the shelves. It’s true that the work has “sexual content.”

By Robin Bates | Published: October 18, 2023

In “Empty Glass,” Glück does a deep dive into the many ways we strive to control an uncertain future.

By Robin Bates | Published: October 16, 2023

Euripides helped philosopher Nussbaum handle the death of her daughter. This is one of literature’s great gifts.

By Robin Bates | Published: November 27, 2022

Foucault uses Euripides to describe what the Greeks meant by “fearless speech.” Such speech is important is standing up to authoritarians today.

By Robin Bates | Published: September 20, 2022

The ancient myth about Athena and Poseidon, historian Snyder argues, captures what Ukraine needs today in its battle with Russia.

By Robin Bates | Published: April 27, 2021

Martha Nussbaum contents that Aristotle’s use of Greek tragedy gave him a particularly rich vision of how to lead a good life.