The Thebans only encourage male unions, he has his speaker assert, because they are clumsy at finding words for seduction, unlike the elegant, fine-spoken Athenians.

Yet at its most vulnerable moment in the year 335 BC, Thebes was utterly abandoned by its luminaires. Overconfidence and ...

The Thebans trilogy is delightful and doomy at The Stoop. Robert Shore Published Aug 21, 2013, 6:00am | Updated Dec 9, 2019, 5:18pm. Share this article via whatsapp ...

LONDON (Reuters) - It takes a while for Oedipus, in Sophocles's play based on the tragic Greek myth about the King of Thebes, to catch on that he's the very person the Oracles are talking about ...

If you imagine yourself in ancient Greece, it is probably in one of the two principal cities (or city-states), democratic, fractious, philosophy-loving Athens, or oligarchic, disciplined, anti ...

The Thebans Season will feature two fully staged productions inspired by the ancient Greek city of Thebes. Performance dates for this year are today, 7 August - 1 September, ...

But Julian Anderson’s opera “Thebans”, based on Sophocles’s versions of those ancient stories, still packs some surprises.Anderson, 47, ...

The Thebans, The Scoop - theatre review The Scoop's annual dose of free theatre begins with musical comedy Prince of Thebes, aimed at children, followed by Oedipus and Antigone, written for adults ...

Colm Cunningham certainly felt that way when he founded the Caledonian Thebans in May 2002. Scotland’s first – and, as yet, only –… ...