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Recently, Classical Studies Program Director Dr. Elizabeth Thill attended a performance of Oedipus at the Indiana Repertory Theater in downtown Indy. It was amazing! Dr. Thill came home overly excited, chattered incoherently about it to her husband (who gave her the tickets for her birthday, accompanied her, had seen what she’d seen, and probably didn’t …

If you’ve ever attended a theater performance, listened to an orchestra, or been part of a chorus, you’ve witnessed the legacy of the Classical World. Theater emerged in Athens (Greece) in the 6th century BCE, as part of the worship of Dionysus, the god of overcoming social boundaries (and wine!). Within two centuries it had …