Auteur: Helene P. Foley

This book explores the emergence of Greek tragedy on the American stage from the nineteenth century to the present. Despite the gap separating the world of classical Greece from our own, Greek traged …

Although Classical Athenian ideology did not permit women to exercise legal, economic, and social autonomy, the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides often represent them as influential so …

The Homeric Hymn to Demeter, composed in the late seventh or early sixth century B.C.E., is a key to understanding the psychological and religious world of ancient Greek women. The poem tells how Had …

Antigone on the Contemporary World Stage is the first book to analyse what happens to Sophocles’ play as it is adapted and (re)produced around the world, and the first to focus specifically on Antigo …

Chosen as one of the ten canonical plays by Euripides during the Hellenistic period in Greece, Hecuba was popular throughout Antiquity. The play also became part of the so-called ”Byzantine triad” …

Published in the year 1981, Reflections of Women in Antiquity is a valuable contribution to the field of Performance. …

Published in the year 1981, Reflections of Women in Antiquity is a valuable contribution to the field of Performance. …

Ritual Irony is a critical study of four problematic later plays of Euripides: the Iphigenia in Aulis, the Phoenissae, the Heracles, and the Bacchae. Examining Euripides’ representation of sacrificia …

Chosen as one of the ten canonical plays by Euripides during the Hellenistic period in Greece, Hecuba was popular throughout Antiquity. The play also became part of the so-called ”Byzantine triad” …