The ancient Greeks deeply believed in the power of curses and their ability to influence the lives of individuals and even ...

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as Frost, who had every reason to veil his sexual velleities for his friend’s wife when he wrote about them in public, would ...

Oedipus is confident he can find the perpetrator and bring salvation. He is caught between the pragmatism of his wife Jocasta (Indira Varma) and her theocratic brother Creon (Nicholas Khan), who ...

Freud bullied his way into David Guterson’s adaptation of the Oedipus myth, Ed King (Bloomsbury), which includes a lengthy description of mother–son bonding that Sophocles had seen fit to leave ...

The popular dystopian franchise is set to storm the stage at the brand-new Troubadour Canary Wharf Theatre this autumn. Read ...

The French director Alain Guiraudie’s latest film, a bent kind of murder mystery, presents life at its basest and gamiest. By Wesley Morris This gimmicky thriller starring Bill Skarsgard and ...

The incredible Bronze Age remains of King Minos’s ancient kingdom sparked Charlotte Higgins’s fascination with labyrinths and, in particular, the myth of the Minotaur, which forms the central thread ...