No woman could get away with it. Murdering her children is all she would ever be known for—ask Medea. Yet Herakles, often called by his Roman name, Hercules, is known for everything else: slaying the ...

On Monday afternoon of February 10, 2020, I went to the Classics department of Pomona College for a lecture on Herakles. Chiara Sulprizio of Vanderbilt University used cartoons and animation to help ...

Can someone who is immortal be a tragic hero? Is he able to experience tragedy at all? Greek tragedy, as Anne Carson insinuates in the introduction to her translation of Euripides’ Herakles, is all ...

According to director Peter Sellars, the first performance of Euripides' "The Children of Herakles" in Athens in 430 B.C. "served as a town meeting about refugee issues." In light of the world's ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. So Amanda, I've been looking at this cup for a few years and always thought it was a fruit bowl or ...

After appearing to be abandoned, satellite data indicate a big jump in recent deforestation with 500 hectares cleared in the latter half of 2015. The plantation was once owned by Herakles Farms, a U.S ...

In 2009, Herakles Farms was awarded 73,000 hectares of largely forested land in the southwest portion of the country to develop into palm oil plantations. The allotment was reduced to less than 20,000 ...