‘Something Witchy’ on Mount Cithaeron: Finding The Bacchae in the Manson Murders
By Emily Chow-Kambitsch In an undergraduate Greek Mythology course I first encountered Euripides’ Bacchae. Within my native Southern Californian...
‘Acting on the instructions of this Clytemnestra’: a female killer in the ancient Athenian courts
There were no lawyers in ancient Athens; people prosecuting crimes or defending themselves in court would do so by the...
She Had No Choice: How Rona Munro’s ‘Iron’ Navigates Stereotypes of Female Violence
‘There are many groups in society who are made uneasy by women who… do not embrace a femininity characterized by...
Subversion, Violence, Gender Disruption: Feminist Engagements with Euripides’ ‘The Bacchae’
The next show in By Jove’s Season of Violent Women, Here She Comes, draws its inspiration from one of Euripides’...
Why violent women?
The violence of women fascinates and unsettles us. We are used to seeing, in art and in life, the violence...
Sparagmos: A Journal of Women’s Violence in Classics and the Arts
Launched in October 2016, By Jove Theatre Company is currently in the midst of ‘A Season of Violent Women’: three stories...