Volume 54, Number 10 · June 14, 2007
The Art of Risk
By Glen Bowersock
Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides
translated from the Greek by Anne Carson
New York Review Books, 312 pp., $19.95
In early 406 BC the news reached Athens that far away in Macedonia the great dramatist Euripides had died. The leader of the chorus at the festival of the Dionysia that year happened to be his old rival, the aged Sophocles, who, in a public gesture of mourning, had his chorus and actors appear on stage without their customary crowns. We're told that the Athenians wept.
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