In this paper we propose to address the persuasive linguistic strategies of Clytemnestra in Aeschylus’ Agamemnon for execution her husband’s murder as women’s skills and analyse functions queen’s language. She covers with a cloak hatred she carries shows herself according role determined woman wife, publicly. Accordingly, will from different perspectives discourse that queen constructs. sense, ...

Abstract Iannis Xenakis (1922–2001) was a radically innovative composer. Violently persecuted for his leftist activism in the Greek Civil War that followed Second World War, he fled Greece to live rest of life Paris. One most explicit expressions resultant feelings trauma, guilt, and displacement can be found vocal piece called Kassandra (1987). This demanding work requires its two performers e...

This article traces Pasolini’s engagement with Aeschylus Oresteia and the concept of “irrational,” through which he sought to excavate patterns ideological resistance in classical past. I argue that translations adaptations ultimately failed achieve his desired ambition forward an fit for proletariat, whose words might spark new kinds Marxist thought. However, there is value reading into practi...

The discovery of well-preserved frescoes at Akrotiri on Thera has vastly expanded our awareness of the importance of color in Aegean Bronze Age costumes (C. Doumas, The WallPaintings of Thera, 1992, for good illustrations). Yellow dye, derived from saffron crocus, is particularly important in women's clothing at different stages in life, and some of these garments are further embellished with e...

Two generations before Aristotle wrote his celebrated treatise on what the nature of tragic mimesis (or imitation) is, the comic poet Aristophanes had written two plays about the subject, Thesmophoriazusae and the more celebrated Frogs. The first play has the poet Euripides as its hero, and the second the god Dionysus. This god is the son of Zeus and a mortal woman, and at a festival in his hon...