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Gabriel Zuchtriegel’s spirited part-history, part-memoir evokes the everyday life of the ancient city, and poses some very ...
The oldest souvlaki, dating back to the Bronze Age, was discovered on Santorini. Recent research specifically took a look at ...
From Plato’s admiration to Aristophanes’ mockery, this animated explainer uncovers who Socrates really was, if he existed at all.
Also, Tulsa artist Sarah Bowen is offering a Father’s Day Drop-in Workshop on Sunday, guiding participants on creating their own tiny works of art.
Title: Written on the Dark Author: Guy Gavriel Kay Genre: Fiction Publisher: Penguin Canada Pages: 320 “I did that. I did that.” It’s not giving away much to open this review with the ...
Aristophanes gets an MT makeover in South London. The Frogs, his comedy telling the tale of Dionysos’ journey to Hades, was freely adapted by Burt Shevelove 50 years ago and supplemented by Nathan ...
Stephen Sondheim described the first production of The Frogs, his musical based on Aristophanes’s Greek comedy, as “one of the few deeply unpleasant professional experiences I’ve had”. The show opened ...
The show has been tinkered with too many times and you can see the layers of each era in every line, like a chunk of rock, striated with Aristophanes’s original, then Shevelove and Sondheim’s ...
Georgie Rankcom directs the Aristophanes-inspired musical. Production Photos Get a 1st Look at London Revival of Sondheim's The Frogs, Starring Glee's Kevin McHale. Georgie Rankcom directs the ...
120 students from schools in the Vesuvius area bring to life 'Lysistrata', the famous comedy by Aristophanes, at the Great Theatre of Pompeii, one of the most symbolic places of Mediterranean ...
Aristophanes’ myth of the original human beings seeking a similar matching half is challenged by Socrates’ doctrine. Love’s aim, we eventually learn, is not to complete us, ...
Aristophanes wanted a way to help readers know how much of a pause to take to consummate the semantics of the written word. He came up with a canny method of dotting ink at the top, middle, or ...