Greek tragedy moves on one act

A Greek summer tragedy

Fires have raged across southern Europe during the exceptional heat of this summer but in Greece, where they have been particularly severe and widespread, they caught the authorities by surprise. They have been occurring over weeks from late June in the forests of the north to Crete in the south. They are doubly troubling because of Greece's dramatic biodiversity — more than 25 per cent of an e...

Helene P . Foley : Female Acts in Greek Tragedy

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Aristophanes, Fandom and the Classicizing of Greek Tragedy

It is no doubt true that the questions I would like to address in this chapter, which concern Aristophanes’ role (and more broadly, the role of Old Comedy) in disseminating and popularizing Greek tragedy, can never be answered adequately, given the nature of the evidence we have to work with. But it is also true that if any progress can be made in answering them, Alan Sommerstein’s magisterial ...

Health effects of financial crisis: omens of a Greek tragedy.

www.thelancet.com Vol 378 October 22, 2011 1457 Submissions should be made via our electronic submission system at http://ees.elsevier.com/ thelancet/ with 2009, and of 8% in the fi rst half of 2011 compared with the same period of 2010. Major private health providers, although comprising a smaller proportion of care delivery than public providers, were also hit by pressure on personal budgets ...

Perceiving a stable environment when one moves.