Abstract: The tragedy Antigone was perceived as a myth and found its place in the classical canon after being passed down orally for a number of years and across several generations. Yet, the Sophoclean Antigone was conceived with a number of very 'modern’ connotations that embedded it within the discourses that got stirred up … Continue reading The Epic Journey of a Tragedy: Understanding Sophocles’s Antigone through its representations in Western culture →

Shinjan Pramanik UG-3 Roll No.- 14 Dionysus is a central figure in both Euripides’ The Bacchae and Aristophanes’s Frogs. He appears as a skittish, histrionic figure in Frogs, and as a daunting, inescapable force in The Bacchae. Frogs was first performed in 405 BCE, at the Lenaean festival; The Bacchae was also first produced (posthumously) … Continue reading Koaxing out the Dionysiac in “Frogs” and “The Bacchae” →

SHATAPARNI BHATTACHARYA Roll No. - 027 B.A. English - UG III The Lysistrata by Aristophanes has earned its position among the ranks of Greek works that are fundamental to the understanding of the position of the woman in Ancient Greece. This essay shall attempt to examine how the play’s titular character satisfies the role of … Continue reading Femininity in Rebellion: Vindication of the Woman Rebel in “Lysistrata” →

A truthful account of human nature (our interests and dispositions) is essential if we are to ask some basic ethical questions, one of the most important being “How should we act in the face of a moral dilemma? What would be the right thing to do?” At first, it might seem like the difficulty of … Continue reading Representations of the Self in Homer and the Early Greeks →

Maninee Maity UG III  Roll 02   The army camp to which Clytemnestra and Iphigenia arrive would consist only of male soldiers, if not for a group of women from Chalchis who come to the camp to see the "strong guard of the shield bearing Greeks"[1]. They are the chorus. Apart from their presence, the … Continue reading Holidaying at an Army Camp: the Chorus in Euripides’ “Iphigenia at Aulis” →

Amreeta Das, UG-3, Roll no.- 31 The character of Clytemnestra has generated enduring fascination in the history of literary reworkings of Greek myths. Daughter of Tyndareus, and slayer of her own husband Agamemnon, the myth of Clytemnestra in its many tellings simultaneously reflects a wide range of anxieties and fantasies of patriarchal societies about ambitious … Continue reading Notes on Clytemnestra’s character in Colm Toibin’s House of Names →

Srishti Jha UG-III Roll. No- 29   ABSTRACT:  Euripides belonged to the trio of the three great Athenian tragedians, the other two being Aeschylus and Sophocles. As a response to the ongoing Peloponnesian War, which lasted from 431-404 BC, especially to the capturing of the Aegean island of Melos and the subsequent slaughtering of the … Continue reading ‘WHERE DO THE GODS GO WHEN WOMEN NEED THEM?’: A CONTEMPORARY STUDY OF EURIPIDES’ THE TROJAN WOMEN THROUGH CHARLES L. MEE’S THE TROJAN WOMEN 2.0 AND FEMI OSOFISAN’S WOMEN OF OWU. →

Name: Shohini Barman Class: UG3, Roll no.- 37 Abstract: The Sphinx, is one of the most enigmatic hybrid beasts in the trope of Greek mythology. Even though the Sphinx is only a passing reference in Sophocles, nevertheless it has been perceived as a terrifying presence in the Theban narratives. This paper looks into the conception … Continue reading Oedipus and The Sphinx: The Mythical Beast and its Reception →