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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

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

Francesca Gazzano explores the Herodotean Croseus, a figure between history and tragedy

By Francesca Gazzano Abstract: In this talk from the Herodotus Helpline series, Dr Francesca Gazzano (University of Genoa) explores Herodotus’ famous account of the Lydian king Croesus. Francesca considers Croesus’…

Date: 2 July 2021
Category: Greek Historiography Greek Language and Literature Greek Resources

Inventing the Barbarian: Greek Self-Definition Through Tragedy

By Edith Hall Abstract: Incest, polygamy, murder, sacrilege, impalement, castration, female power, and despotism: these are some of the images by which the Greek tragedians defined the non-Greek, `barbarian’ world.…

Date: 2 July 2021
Category: Greek History Greek Language and Literature Greek Resources Greek Tragedy

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Suzuki Tadashi’s Electra

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

Francesca Gazzano explores the Herodotean Croseus, a figure between history and tragedy

Inventing the Barbarian: Greek Self-Definition Through Tragedy

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