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Article: Words for Windows 2003?(Education)
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- Quadrant
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- October 1, 2003
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IT SEEMS the Classics are in. Ancient Greek and Roman masterpieces are everywhere: in the last few months Sydney has seen live productions of Euripides' Women of Troy and Alkestis, Sophocles' Antigone (in Greek) and Oedipus the King, a modern play based on Medea, and Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld. At least six popular novels set in ancient Greece or Rome have appeared in bookshops. We read of several new films in the pipeline, each hoping to emulate the success of Gladiator. Brad Pitt is to appear in a new epic on Troy. Harry Potter has drawn millions of children and adults back to a world of mythological dungeons and dragons, so to speak, sprinkled with Latin and ...
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