If you’re wondering why a novelist would write a new version of one of the best-known stories in Greek mythology, the answer ...

We’re in a golden age of Greek mythology retellings, with characters such as Medusa, Circe, Ariadne, and more getting their time in the spotlight thanks to contemporary authors and classicists. On ...

Ryan Engle as Jason, left, and Nathan Howland, right, as Ajax the messenger, pose with Elizabeth Guarnieri as Medea. Medea’s foot on the chest of King Creon symbolizes the power play between the two.

Ancient sources describe the Clashing Rocks as a deadly passage navigated through prophecy and a test run using a dove, after which the rocks stop clashing. The film changes the mechanics and adds ...

Jared Reed as Jason and Jennifer Summerfield as Medea in Hedgerow Theatre's production of "Medea." (Photo supplied by the production) Euripides lost the new-play festival in Greece 2,449 years ago – ...

It should have worked better. Classical Theatre’s season opener, Medea, has all the talent, tools and twists to make Euripides’ classical play something remarkable. There’s the crisp 95-minute runtime ...

To Sigmund Freud, the family hearth is a perilous space of hostility between parents and children. Seizing on the Greek myth of Oedipus, he claimed that patricide is every son’s latent wish. Freud’s ...

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