The harrowing images of the migrant crisis convulsing Europe have challenged the world’s conscience. Who could look at the photo of the dead Syrian boy washed ashore and remain indifferent to the ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- "The Omen of the Eagles and the Ethos of Agamemnon," an article by John Peradotto, Ph.D., of Amherst, emeritus SUNY Distinguished Teaching Professor and former faculty member in the ...

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Performed for the very first time in 458 BC, the trilogy was awarded the top honor at the festival of Dionysia and has ...

Agamemnon is the first play of Aeschylus’ trilogy The Oresteia, which was first performed and won Aeschylus the first prize at the at the Fesitval of Dionysus in 458 BCE. Anne Carson, Canadian poet, ...

In 1918 US Senator Hiram Warren Johnson is purported to have said: The first casualty when war comes is truth. However, this was not recorded. In 1928 Arthur Ponsonby's wrote: The 'When war is ...

Aeschylus was born in c. 525 BC in Eleusis, a small town about 27 km northwest of Athens, in the fertile valleys of western Attica. Some scholars argue that his date of birth may be based on counting ...

Unselected Admiration for Emma and Co. Why William F. Buckley Jr.’s Gratitude Remains Relevant in 2025 Mamdani’s Trans Activism Distracts from ‘Affordability’ Agenda Audio By Carbonatix The collapse ...

This staging by the National Theater of Greece was broadcast live on Saturday from the amphitheater of Epidaurus. By Elisabeth Vincentelli There is not much action, barely even a plot, in “The ...