“Oh where is the noble face of modesty, or the strength of virtue, now that blasphemy is in power and men have… — Euripides Copy Share Image
“In theater, that's the whole thing about Greek tragedy. You take the audience through the—like, the realest shit, the tearing out the… — Riley Redgate Copy Share Image
“What greater sorrow than being forced to leave behind my native earth?” — Euripides Copy Share Image
“You don't know what your life is, nor what you're doing, nor who you are.” — Euripides Copy Share Image
“Not from Hades' black and universal lake can you lift him. Not by groaning, not by prayers. Yet you run yourself out… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
Literature transcends national boundaries, racial boundaries. It goes deep into the issues that concern all human beings. That is why, when people… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
I often teach a graduate theater seminar on Greek tragedy in performance. I usually begin by saying that no matter what technological… — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
“Again, again your mind has changed course with the wind. For you think now of godly things ignored when you worked dreadful… — Euripides Copy Share Image
The ‘I’ character in journalism is almost pure invention. Unlike the ‘I’ of autobiography, who is meant to be seen as a… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
“None but a fool or an infant could forget a father gone so far and cold. No. Lament is a pattern cut… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
I always think a good sports movie is emblematic in the same way that a great Greek tragedy really has a certain… — Carla Gugino Copy Share Image
“By dread things I am compelled. I know that. I see the trap closing. I know what I am. But while life… — Sophocles Copy Share Image
The journalistic 'I' is an overreliable narrator, a functionary to whom crucial tasks of narration and argument and tone have been entrusted,… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
Laughter on American television has taken the place of the chorus in Greek tragedy. It is unrelenting; the news, the stock-exchange reports,… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
The reason why the British theatrical tradition is world-leading in Greek drama is because there is a flourishing tradition of people rethinking… — Mary Beard Copy Share Image
“the essence of tragedy is time, or rather the lack of it. There is no problem in any Greek tragedy that could… — Mortimer J. Adler Copy Share Image
“No mortal ever knows happiness and good fortune all the way to the end. Each one is born with his bitterness waiting… — Euripides Copy Share Image
“[A]s Agatha Swanburne once said, 'To be kept waiting is unfortunate, but to be kept waiting with nothing interesting to read is… — Maryrose Wood Copy Share Image
“This consideration takes us very close to what it is that makes Greek tragedy “tragic.” A play about an unambiguously heroic young… — Daniel Mendelsohn Copy Share Image
Sicily is a blessed land. First, because of its geographic position in the Mediterranean. Second, for its history and all the different… — Marcello Giordani Copy Share Image
