This article offers a new interpretation of the wave which, in finale Euripides’ Iphigenia Taurica , prevents Greek ship from leaving Taurian land, thus making it necessary for goddess Athena to intervene. My contention is that predictable consequence sacrilege which Greeks are committing by stealing Artemis’ cult statue temple. Therefore, we can detect IT same religious offence–punishment–comp...

This article attempts a reinterpretation of Aeschylus’ Persians as primarily warning about the instability democracy following major military victory against an overpowering totalitarian enemy. It discusses historical and our contemporary ideas democratic principles government versus constant tendency towards strongman regime. I argue that play’s underlying philosophy is based on Heraclitan ide...