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Tag Archives: Euripides
Sexual Misconduct in the Classics
A sexual misconduct course required of all employees got me thinking of problematic situations in the books that I teach.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "The Lover: A Ballad", "Written in a Lady's Prayer Book", Aphra Behn, Bacchae, Charlotte Bronte, Henry Fielding, Jane Austen, Jane Eyre, John Wilmot, Lucille Clifton, Rape, Rover, Sense and Sensibility, sexual assault, sexual harassment, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Tom Jones Comments closed
Tom Brady Channels Medea’s Fury
Lack of respect can lead to fury and destruction. As it was with Medea, so it was last week with Tom Brady.
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Hydrocarbons Unleash an Angry God
Euripides’ “The Bacchae” can be read as a parable of climate change denialism.
Top 10 Hellish Child-Parent Relationships
Top 10 Literary Parent-Child Relationships from Hell.
Posted in Uncategorized Also tagged "All that Rises Must Converge", "Daddy", "Letter to a Dead Father", Aeschylus, Brothers Karamazov, D. H. Lawrence, 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
Female Freedom Drives Right Crazy
Euripides “The Bacchae” well describes rightwing legislators obsessed with abortion.
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JFK as Ancient Greek Hero
Ancient Greek literature provides us with a power lens through which to examine the John F. Kennedy assassination.
Needed in Congress: A Deus Ex Machina
If Boehner channeled the spirit of Athena in “The Odyssey,” he could reopen the government tomorrow.
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A Cancer Patient Reads “The Bacchae”
One of my students, suffering from cancer, has an exciting interpretation of Euripides’ “The Bacchae.”
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