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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.

Academus Education
Aug 16, 20214 min read
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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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Apr 5, 20215 min read
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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.

Academus Education
Feb 20, 20211 min read
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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.

Academus Education
Jan 20, 20215 min read
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The Eidola of Greek Tragedy
An eidolon can refer to phantoms, ghosts, reflections and apparitons, and their appearance in Greek tragedy illuminates their function.

Academus Education
Oct 30, 20206 min read
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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...

Academus Education
Oct 28, 20204 min read
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Issues of Gender in Antigone - by Mansi Dhokia
Discover how modern feminist theory effects our reading of Sophocles' Antigone

Academus Education
Oct 7, 20208 min read
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