March 19, 2013
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This just in: An interview with actor and director Prodromos Tsinikoris, about his recent production ‘Telemachos: Should I Stay or Should I Go?’ “Two young Greek artists, Anestis Azas and Prodromos Tsinikoris, and a distinguished German dramatist, Jens Hillje, take Greek immigrants in Germany since the nineteen sixties as their ‘living material’ in the unique…
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From UPenn Museum: The Siege and Fall of Masada In the 1st century BCE, King Herod the Great fortified the mountain of Masada, located near the southwest shore of the Dead Sea. Seventy years after Herod’s death, Jewish rebels occupied Masada during the First Jewish Revolt against the Romans, holding out even after the fall…
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I think I missed this one: This week’s Classics Confidential vodcast features Dr Anastasia Bakogianni of The Open University talking about her work on the reception of Electra in the eighteenth, nineteenth and twentieth centuries. As Anastasia explains in her recent book ‘Electra Ancient and Modern: Aspects of the Reception of the Tragic Heroine’: “Electra…
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In case you missed it … a lengthy profile/interview: The Inscrutable Brilliance of Anne Carson
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Tip o’ the pileus to Liz Gloyn who alerted us to this (currently streamed online only) ‘album’ by the Mechanisms: Ulysses Dies At Dawn … it has a folky sort of sound to it, but tells a good chunk of Odysseus’ story …
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