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Modern Adaptations of Greek Dramas

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A modern adaptation of the classic Greek tragedy which falls within a social realism. To the law of men, the young Antigone apposes her own sets of values.



A modern day adaptation of the ancient Greek play Lysistrata by Aristophanes, set against the backdrop of gang violence in Chicago.


The story is based on the ancient Greek tragedy Iphigenia at Aulis by Euripides.

The film Oldboy demonstrates the elements of Oedipus theory and the Uncanny found in the psychoanalysis theory.

Euripides' Greek tragedy, "The Trojan Women" is played out on the edge of a rocky desolate Mexican border town in this poetic reinterpretation
Tiresia is at the same time woman and man, according to Greek Mythology. Here, Tiresia is a Brazilian transexual living with her brother in the outskirts of Paris.

The opening titles inform us that the Coen Brothers' "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" is based on Homer's The Odyssey .

It is a western version of the play by Aristophanes, Lysistrata.



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