Toolbox: Oresteia, The Bacchae, Medea, History of the Peloponnesian War

[the following from Greek Tragedy by Elizabeth Vandiver]

The Oresteia

• Augene O’Neill adaptation: Mourning Becomes Electra (1947) (New England right after the Civil War)

Others:

• musical The Gospel at Colonus (1983), the story of Oedipus at Colonus with a service in an African-American Pentecostal church
• Rita Dove’s story of Oedipus the King in an antebellum southern plantation The Darker Face of the Earth.
• Star Trek: Voyager. Shipwreck of D’Lana Torres on a pre-industrial world, built around Greek tragedy.