Greek Tragedy – A Cornucopia of Classics Resources: Diverse Food for Thought

Suzuki Tadashi’s Electra

Directed by Suzuki Tadashi This adaptation of Electra takes the ancient play and incorporates it with the traditional Japanese theatre dance, Noh. The Suzuki Company of Toga itself is very centred on preserving…

Date: 18 July 2022
Category: Greek Language and Literature Greek Resources Greek Tragedy

Tragic Anti-War Spectacles Podcast

by Anastasia Bakogianni. Description: Classics Confidential’s own Anastasia is interviewed by Sonya Nevin about her work for War as Spectacle (Anastasia tells us how Greek tragedy was co-opted by film director Michael…

Date: 18 July 2022
Category: Greek Resources Greek Tragedy Reception and the Culture Around Classics

Greek Tragic Heroines in Later Literature Podcast

by Mihoko Suzuki. Description: What is the appeal of Greek tragic heroines for later writers, particularly women authors? During a visit to the University of Miami CC’s Anastasia Bakogianni met up with the Director of…

Date: 18 July 2022
Category: Greek Resources Greek Tragedy Reception and the Culture Around Classics

Khameleon Classics

Produced by Shivaike Shah Abstract: For two thousand years, study of the Greek and Roman worlds has been at the centre of Western education. Khameleon Classics is the podcast that asks why. What is our fixation with…

Date: 5 December 2021
Category: Greek Resources Greek Tragedy Reception and the Culture Around Classics

Staging the European Classical in ‘Latin’ America: an introduction

by Rosa Andújar and Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos Abstract: This volume explores the rich and varied afterlife of Greek and Roman tragedies and comedies in Latin America, offering nuanced examinations of notable…

Date: 22 August 2021
Category: Greek Language and Literature Greek Resources Greek Tragedy Latin Comedy/Satire Latin Language and Literature

Crossroads in the Black Aegean: Oedipus, Antigone, and Dramas of the African Diaspora

By Barbara Goff and Michael Simpson Abstract: This book seeks to explain the prominence of Sophocles’ Theban plays among those Greek tragedies adapted by dramatists across the African diaspora. It argues that the…

Date: 18 July 2021
Category: Greek Language and Literature Greek Resources Greek Tragedy Reception and the Culture Around Classics

Imagining Xerxes: Ancient Perspectives on a Persian King

By Emma Bridges Xerxes, the Persian king who invaded Greece in 480 BC, quickly earned a notoriety that endured throughout antiquity and beyond. The Greeks’ historical encounter with this eastern king – which resulted,…

Date: 18 July 2021
Category: Classical Greek History Greek Art and Culture Greek Historiography Greek History Greek Language and Literature

Greek Theater in Ancient Sicily

By Kathryn Bosher Abstract: Studies of ancient theatre have traditionally taken Athens as their creative centre. In this book, however, the lens is widened to examine the origins and development of ancient drama, and…

Date: 11 July 2021
Category: Greek Comedy/Satire Greek Language and Literature Greek Tragedy Other Ancient Cultures Other Works in Greek

Choroi Achoroi: The Athenian Politics of Tragic Choral Identity

By Sheila Murnaghan Abstract: This chapter highlights the paradoxical status of the tragic chorus: as a group of musical performers, the chorus is a manifestation of social and political order, but as a group of…

Date: 6 July 2021
Category: Greek Art and Culture Greek Language and Literature Greek Resources Greek Tragedy

Distorted Oaths in Aeschylus

by Isabelle Torrance Abstract: This paper argues that Aeschylus systematically distorts normative ritual paradigms of oath-taking for dramatic purposes. Oaths in Aeschylus tend to be conspiratorial and/or political in…

Date: 6 July 2021
Category: Greek Resources Greek Tragedy

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