Vayos Liapis is Professor of Ancient Theatre and Its Reception at the Open University of Cyprus. He is the author of A Commentary on the Rhesus Attributed to Euripides (2012) and co-editor of Greek Tragedy after the Fifth Century (Cambridge, 2018). He is the recipient of the 2018 National Prize for the Translation of Ancient Greek Literature into Modern Greek (Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports). Avra Sidiropoulou is Associate Professor of Contemporary Theatre Theory and Practice at the Open University of Cyprus, and Artistic Director of Persona Theatre Company. She is the author of Directions for Directing: Theatre and Method (2018) and Authoring Performance: The Director in Contemporary Theatre (2011). She was nominated for the 2020 Gilder/Coigney International Award by the League of Professional Theatre Women in New York.
'… this is a volume that is broad in its aims and encompasses vast swathes of intellectual enquiry, political event, and theatrical activity. It will be especially useful for teachers of Greek tragic reception, and of interest to wider audiences too.' Lucy Jackson, Bryn Mawr Classical Review