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In an era of political discontent, when voices demanding justice rise with intensity, Oedipus Rex, directed by Declan ...

This was true when Sophocles first staged his play, based on well-known myths, in fifth century BC Athens; it is certainly true with this modern reimagining, written and directed by Robert Icke. As ...

In London, they find themselves each playing the same classical heroine—in two different adaptations of plays by Sophocles. Both play Antigone, the obdurate daughter of King Oedipus—he of Freud’s ...

After all, the myth of Oedipus was already well known in Sophocles’ time; it is Oedipus himself whose knowledge lags behind that of the audience, which has little choice but to wait for him to ...

The Peloponnesian War by Thucydides is an awesome story about the ancient Greeks. But the story is more than a war report. It ...

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Icke is so attuned to politics that even one jarring detail – no campaign anywhere would risk drinking champagne before the ...

“It's relatively uncommon, but that doesn't mean it can't be super, super dangerous,” says Dr. Maria Sophocles, a board-certified OB-GYN at Women’s Healthcare of Princeton in Princeton, New Jersey, ...

'Sophocles … created a masterpiece that in the eyes of posterity has overshadowed every other achievement in the field of ancient drama …' With these words Dr ...

The 34-year-old will star in Elektra, an adaptation of Sophocles’ play which has been translated by poet Anne Carson. Larson described the drama as a "timeless story" and said she "couldn't be ...