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The Female Space in Aeschylus' Agamemnon - by Jess Huang

The use of space in the play Agamemnon is inherently gendered, using the outside and inside of the house to show gender conflict.

Euripides' Medea: Tragic Heroine or Malignant Villain? - by Lucy Moore

Euripides' Medea is a divisive figure - is she a feminist figure and the victim of a tragedy or an evil villain who kills her own children?

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Odyssey Resource Booklet - Academus x UCL Classical Play

Academus has partnered with the UCL Classical Play to produce a resource booklet all about the Odyssey as classicists and dramatists.

The Theban Plays of Sophocles - by Mansi Dhokia

The Theban Plays of Sophocles are linked by the setting of Thebes and the house of Oedipus and are perhaps Sophocles' most famous plays.

The Eidola of Greek Tragedy

An eidolon can refer to phantoms, ghosts, reflections and apparitons, and their appearance in Greek tragedy illuminates their function.

The Costumes of the Maenads

How Euripides’ Bacchae creates an image of the Maenads Maenads, the exclusively female followers of Dionysus, loomed large in the...

Issues of Gender in Antigone - by Mansi Dhokia

Discover how modern feminist theory effects our reading of Sophocles' Antigone