In ancient Greece the great playwrights helped to plant and nurture the seeds of representative government through their characters and plots.
Tag: Aeschylus
Francis Bacon Read Just as He Painted: Deep, Dark and Bleak
A new exhibition at the Centre Pompidou in Paris looks at how literary figures like Eliot, Conrad and Aeschylus shaped the painter’s work.
Can a Greek Tragedy Help Heal a Scarred City?
On the ground with the provocative stage director Milo Rau, who brought together European and Iraqi actors for a take on “The Oresteia” set in Mosul.