Word: greeke
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kathryn Walker is quick to admit, "staging Greek tragedy can be very hard to pull off." The 1997 Visiting Artist at Radcliffe has imposed this difficulty on herself with delight. Her audacious production of Euripides; The Bacchae opens this week, the result of many years of reading, thinking about and loving the play...
...known that in the original Greek drama there was music all the way through and that the choral odes were especially important," Harper said in a telephone interview. "The question becomes how to reinvent those...
...Williams translation used by Walker combines a nuanced style, reflective of the original Greek, with a highly developed sensitivity to what modern lyric poetry can do. Consider the following excerpt from one of the odes, described in Martha Nussbaum's preface to the translation as "a mixture of beauty and horror...
...Cosmo, a native of Italy, became fascinated by ancient cultures and texts in high school, where he studied ancient Greek and philosophy, among other subjects. At the University of Venice, he chose to major in Oriental Studies...
...exists assigning each suspect to a point in the commons in a plan that would have resulted in greater bloodshed, that the Group was inspired by The Secret History, a best-selling novel about New England college students and murder. Notes have been pasted up declaring, in Greek letters, "Luke is God." The stories are overwhelming the town. "We don't know what the motive was," says Mayor Foster, who says there is no proof of a hit list or of cult activity. "But there's no way to justify this. It's made me sick. I'm just sick...