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Classics: The Temple of Poseidon at Sounio features in The Fratricides by Nikos Kazantzakis, popularly best known for Zorba the Greek. Picture: Getty Images

A microcosm of life and death

Ideologies are set against profound beliefs as a priest sits at the centre of a storm in a village during the civil war in Greece

Darryl Accone

Greek tragedy: Argyris Xafis as Heracles in Women of Trachis suffers a painful death after donning a robe that transmutes into a boiling film.

Women of Trachis: The death of a great hero

Theatre: Love leads to a hero’s happiness in popular culture today. But in ancient Athens? Jealousy and death.

Andrea Doyle
Andrea Doyle Guest Author