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Founded in 1885, the Harvard Classics Club has been producing Roman and Greek drama for more than 100 years...
...last act of the evening was the appearance of five brothers from Alpha Epsilon Pi, a predominantly Jewish fraternity, scantily clad in homemade togas and promising to serve breakfast in bed to the highest bidder. Undeterred by some unseemly patches of body hair peeking out from under the Greek garb, Arielle J. Cohen ’04, a Crimson editor, and her roommate Jillian P. Copeland ’04 bought the group for a sum total of $190. “Who can resist five handsome Jewish boys?” Cohen asks. Point taken. I couldn?...
...match made in mythological-heaven. In Greek lore, Pleiades is a group of seven sisters renowned for their beauty and immortalized by Zeus as a constellation. In the Harvard Bookstore, Pleiades is an obscure literary magazine published by Central Missouri State University. And in the Harvard social milieu, Pleiades is a recently formed quasi-sorority. FM played matchmaker, uniting the social club and the magazine to explore their eponymous obscurity...
...name plagiarism. “I am not surprised at all,” Perkins said of the Pleiades-Pleiades coincidence. Speculating upon the significance of the journal’s title, Pleiades member Katherine M. Dimengo ’04, a Crimson editor, cited the relevance of Greek and Roman mythology to modern literature and culture.Convinced that the name overlap was innocent coincidence, FM shifted gears from investigative reporter to section leader, asking the members of the social organization to analyze a selection from Pleiades. The girls listened attentively to a dramatic reading of “Blonde...
...adaptation is what sits at the heart of this 90-minute production. The familiar obstacles of the Greek play are all present. Three hookers in a jail cell serve as the play’s Sirens, an unstable, one-eyed librarian is the Cyclops, and a mushroom tea-bearing tattoo mistress combines Circe and Calypso...