Sophocles’ play gets slashingly remade—by a guy, yet again—in a production that, while not flawless, is vivid and potent.

Great films possess a unique power to evoke memories of iconic literature from centuries ago. Often unconsciously, certain ...

THE sea has been a delight to me ever since I learned to pull an oar and tend a sheet, and sea literature has fascinated me ever since I began to read. However, I should have declined this invitation ...

There was a brief phase of Mark Zuckerberg’s MAGA glow up—sometime after the gold chain appeared, but before he started griping in the “manosphere” about censorship—when he began designing T-shirts ...

39.2 x 29.1 cm. (15.4 x 11.5 in.) ...

We don’t usually think of anger and resentment the way we think about drugs or alcohol. But growing evidence suggests that, for many people, the craving for revenge follows the same patterns as ...

The Classical Review publishes informative reviews from leading scholars on new work covering the literatures and civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome. Publishing over 150 high quality reviews and ...

The beginning of Aeschylus’ “Eumenides” is frustratingly parochial. The entire trilogy, really—“The Oresteia”—is infamous among classicists for its difficulty in the original Greek: rare words, ...

The red carpet has become synonymous with the rich and famous – but it once didn’t have such a glamorous fate (Picture: Getty Images) The red carpet: a place for the glamorous to pout their lips, dip ...

7.1 x 16.9 cm. (2.8 x 6.7 in.) ...

Pat Barker pops up on Zoom in an electric-blue room flanked by guitars, keyboards and an accordion. It’s not quite the study stuffed with ancient-Greek tomes that I’d expected as a backdrop for the 81 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. When the #MeToo movement reached Instagram, users were (re)introduced to the myth of Medusa, a priestess ...