My late classics professor taught me that Ancient Greek tragedy dramatized different points of view, insisted on empathy, and warned against hubris. What would he have made of our current moment?

LONDON (AP) — Who are you? That most basic question perplexes people, just as it did when Greek dramatist Sophocles wrote about the cursed king Oedipus two and a half millennia ago. Screen stars Mark ...

At the Salzburg Festival, a new adaptation of “The Oresteia” will put a classic story of war, democracy and revenge into a modern context. By David Belcher Staging “The Oresteia,” Aeschylus’s epic ...

The tragic dramas of Ancient Greece often follow a common arc: an unwary but usually unobjectionable hero commits a blunder or series of blunders culminating in personal disaster, followed by fleeting ...

Antigone, written by Sophocles around 441 BCE, is considered to be one of the most produced ancient Greek tragedies. Nevertheless, it’s not something you can see very frequently, even in a university ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. LONDON (AP) — Who are you? That most basic ...