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Thursday, November 10, 2016

The one where Medea saves her kids: lost classics of Greek tragedy

In his new book, Matthew Wright analyses the remaining evidence of hundreds of Athenian texts that, packed with sex, magic and happy endings, would give a radically different impression of the genre The plot thickens … Helen McCrory in Medea, a play that ...


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