In the prologue of the Seven at Thebes Eteocles announces to the Chorus that an enemy army is approaching the city. The new formations πολυρρόθοις, Ἀλεξητήριος, οἰμώγμασιν determine the genus of his speech, which howe…

Danaus’ daughters demonstrate devotion and submission for their father. The egocentric character of the king appears when he recommends them to behave with dignity when entering Argos in order not to dishonor him (v. 996) and not bring «shame to us…

Within Sophocles’ Ajax, Menelaus is generally regarded as an unsympathetic, authoritarian, and typically Spartan character. Indeed, scholars have often treated him as a common despotic ruler who, despite his wise words about civic order, was inev…

The paper assesses the rhetorical reception of Euripides’ fragmentary plays with a specific focus on Melanippe the Wise and Philoctetes. The collected data substantiate both the interpretation of Pasiphae’s auto-apology from Cretans (= Eur. fr…

Women’ economic roles, as depicted in Aristophanes’ comedies, fit the broader gendered topos of the moralizing tradition that opposes feminine nature as designed for the home and masculine disposition as oriented to the outside. Women such as ma…

By the end of the 19th century, Catalan theatre was in a state of stagnation. Since writers of the so-called Renaixença, who were intent on recovering the Catalan tongue as a language both of culture and of public use, had focused mainly on poetry, playw…

The Greek comic author Aristophanes has lived under siege, and war, for a major part of his life. His cry for peace dominates his comedies, and notably three of the surviving ones: Acharnians, Peace, and Lysistrata. Thus, so far, they have been mostly a…