The "Cambridge Greek Play" is a play performed in Ancient Greek by students of the University of Cambridge. The event is held once every three years and is a tradition started in 1882. Ancient Greek refers to the stage in the history of the Greek language corresponding to Classical Antiquity, which normally applies on two ancient periods of Greek history: Archaic and Classic Greece. ... The University of Cambridge is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... 1882 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ...

Recent plays included Oedipus (2004) and Elektra (2001). The Cambridge Greek Play is now hosted in the historic Cambridge Arts Theatre, once established by the economist John Maynard Keynes. Œdipus and the Sphinx, from an 1879 illustration from Stories from the Greek Tragedians by Alfred Church Oedipus (Greek , Oidipous, swollen-foot; rarely ; Latin Oedipus) or Œdipus was the mythical king of Thebes, son of Laius and Jocasta, who, unknowingly, killed his father and married his mother. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the Greek mythological personalities. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... John Maynard Keynes John Maynard Keynes, 1st Baron Keynes of Tilton (pronounced kānz / kAnze), ) (June 5, 1883 – April 21, 1946) was an English economist, whose ideas had a major impact on modern economic and political theory as well as on Franklin D. Roosevelts New Deal. ...