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…
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…
By Lucy Jackson and Erin Lee (National Theatre) This series looks at the way the National Theatre has adapted Ancient Greek plays, translated to a modern audience, especially placing it in more contemporary settings…
By Adrienne Mayor It was long assumed that Amazons, the fierce and fearsome women warriors of Greece, were imaginary. But curiously enough, stories from ancient Egypt, Persia, the Middle East, Central Asia, India and…
Presented by Olga Levaniouk As part of the Centre for Hellenic Studies’ Online Open House series, guest Olga Levaniouk guides a close reading of passages from Homer’s Odyssey. By analysing and comparing examples of…
Presented by Dan-El Padilla Peralta As part of the Kosmos Society’s Online Open House series, guest Dan-El Padilla Peralta guides the panel through a discussion on waste and the fecal in ancient Greece, drawing on…
Presented by Eunice Kim As part of the Kosmos Society’s Online Open House series, guest Eunice Kim analyses confessions of murder in Homer’s Odyssey. She guides the audience through a close reading of selected passages…
By Edith Hall Prof. Edith Hall gives the Wilde Lecture at the Manchester Lit. and Phil. Society on 4 November 2013 to speak on the question ‘Is the Study of Greek and Roman Classics Elitist?’ By breaking down Thomas…
Peopling the Past is a website dedicated to documenting and discussing the everyday of real people in the ancient world, including Greek, Roman, and Egyptian cultures. This video series invites many female scholars to…