Tag Archives: Euripides

Hydrocarbons Unleash an Angry God

By Robin Bates | Published: September 17, 2014

Euripides’ “The Bacchae” can be read as a parable of climate change denialism.

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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", 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

By Robin Bates | Published: March 24, 2014

Euripides “The Bacchae” well describes rightwing legislators obsessed with abortion.

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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 Aeschylus, Bacchae, Epic, Homer, Iliad, Iphigenia, John F. Kennedy, Oedipus, Oresteia, Sophocles, tragedy | Comments closed

Needed in Congress: A Deus Ex Machina

By Robin Bates | Published: October 2, 2013

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”

By Robin Bates | Published: September 30, 2013

One of my students, suffering from cancer, has an exciting interpretation of Euripides’ “The Bacchae.”

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GOP vs. Women = Pentheus vs. Bacchae

By Robin Bates | Published: September 24, 2013

Euripides helps understand the right wing’s attack on women’s reproductive rights.

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Pan’s Call–The Return of the Repressed

By Robin Bates | Published: December 2, 2012

Pan became a major figure for turn-of-the-century poets and artists.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged "Afternoon of a Faun", Bacchae, Finnegans Wake, Guillaume Apollinaire, Heresiarch and Company, James Barrie, James Joyce, Kenneth Grahame, Mallarmé (Stéphane), mythology, Paganism, Pan, Peter Pan, Peter Weir, Picnic at Hanging Rock, Puck of Pook's Hill, Rudyard Kipling, Theocritus, Ulysses, wind in the willows | Comments closed

At 60, a Comfortable Old Scarecrow

By Robin Bates | Published: June 22, 2011

Having just turned 60, I’ve been thinking of Teiresias. Wise though the blind seer may be, his advice doesn’t help others that much. Aging, in other words, appears to require humility.

Posted in Uncategorized | Also tagged Aging, Bacchae, Carl Jung, Homer, Odyssey, Oedipus, Sophocles, T. S. Eliot, Wasteland | Comments closed