Greek mythology

Award-winning French actress Fanny Ardant embodies the title role in director Herve Loichemol's monodrama for actor and orchestra based on Christa Wolf's 1983 novel "Cassandra." The Comedie de Geneve production, which will be on stage at the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center on September 3, presents the final moments just before Cassandra, given the gift of prophecy but defeated by go

Greece's mainstream parties adopted the universal language of poetry as they locked horns ahead of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras's triumphant declaration on Ithaca, the island home of the Homeric hero Odysseus, marking the country's formal exit from the bailout programs. 

Alexis Tsipras managed to outdo himself and at the same time showed his true colors Tuesday. There is no contradiction here: Greece's leftist leader grabbed the opportunity offered by the country's formal exit from the bailout programs in order to push his divisive narrative even further.

Greece's bailout exit was hailed by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras on Tuesday as a "day of redemption" and the dawn of a "new era" in a speech that was widely seen as divisive.

Greece's emergence from nine years of crisis and international financial bailouts marks a "new day" for the country, a "day of redemption but also the dawning of a new era," Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said on Tuesday, in a televised address from the Ionian island of Ithaca.

The last of Sophocles' three Theban plays, "Oedipus at Colonus," describes the end of the mythical king's tragic life and was written shortly before the ancient playwright's own death in 406/5 BC.

Passengers are seen boarding a ferry at Piraeus port on Friday ahead of the August 15 national holiday, traditionally viewed as the peak of the Greek summer season. An estimated 24,196 passengers left the country's main port for the Aegean islands on Thursday. Another 5,636 and 1,389 respectively departed from the ports of Rafina and Lavrio on the same day.

Piraeus has been knocked out of the list of top ten international shipping centers, where it had occupied tenth place for the previous three years, according to the 2018 International Shipping Center Development Index (ISCD) report, which is compiled by the Baltic Exchange and Xinhua news agency.

Aeschylus' play "Prometheus Bound" will be staged at the Little Theater of Ancient Epidaurus on August 3 and 4, in a production directed by Martha Frintzila.

First presented in 408 BC, Euripides' "Orestes," which follows the events after Orestes has killed his mother, Clytemnestra, to avenge the death of his father Agamemnon at her hands, will be staged at the Ancient Theater of Epidaurus on August 3 and 4, starting at 9 p.m.