Reimagining Ancient Greece and Rome: APGRD public lectures
By Oxford University
To listen to an audio podcast, mouse over the title and click Play. Open iTunes to download and subscribe to podcasts.
Description
Recordings of the lectures and in-conversation events with acclaimed actors, directors, playwrights, and academics, on modern and historic performances inspired by ancient Greek and Roman texts - hosted by the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (University of Oxford Classics Faculty).
| Name | Description | Released | Price | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | VideoTragic Form in Kamila Shamsie's Home Fire | Naomi Weiss delivers a public lecture on Kamila Shamsie's award-winning novel, Home Fire Naomi Weiss (Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University), talks on Kamila Shamsie’s retelling of Sophocles' Antigone, Home Fire (pub | 15 12 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 2 | VideoThe Greek Trilogy of Luis Alfaro: New Visions of Tragedy in 21st-Century America | Rosa Andújar delivers a talk on the work of the award-winning playwright Luis Alfaro Streamed live on the APGRD YouTube channel on Monday 18 January 2021, Dr Rosa Andújar (KCL) talked about the award-winning Chicanx adaptations of Greek tragedy by wri | 15 12 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 3 | VideoA People’s History of Classics | Edith Hall and Henry Stead in conversation about their book, A People’s History of Classics: Class and Greco-Roman Antiquity in Britain and Ireland 1689 to 1939 Edith Hall (KCL) and Henry Stead (St Andrews) were live-streamed on the APGRD YouTube chan | 15 12 2021 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 4 | VideoEmily Wilson: A Reading | A public reading at the APGRD from November 2017: Emily Wilson (University of Pennsylvania), discusses and reads from her new translation of Homer's Odyssey. | 19 3 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 5 | VideoJosephine Balmer: A Reading | Poet, classical translator, research scholar and literary critic, Josephine Balmer reads from her latest collection, The Paths of Survival - inspired by the surviving fragments of Aeschylus's lost tragedy, Myrmidons. This reading is followed by a discus | 13 3 2019 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 6 | VideoLikely Terpsichore? (Fragments), a solo durational dance work | Created by APGRD Artist in Residence Marie-Louise Crawley Marie-Louise Crawley spent six months in 2017 as Artist in Residence at the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (APGRD). Her residency gave rise to the creation and performance of th | 4 12 2018 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 7 | VideoPoet and Playwright Gwyneth Lewis on writing Clytemnestra | Poet and playwright, Gwyneth Lewis discusses her relationship with Greek tragedy and her play Clytemnestra. | 9 8 2016 | Free | View in iTunes |
| 7 Items |
