Greek Drama

  • Review at Didaskalia:  Antigonick: A new version of Sophocles’ Antigone.

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  • At a site called The Conversation, in medias res: […] Indeed, Medea’s situation bears a chilling resemblance to current research on maternal filicide. She’s been abandoned by her husband in a foreign land where she has no support network. Isolation, low social status, and stress have been cited as crucial factors in maternal infanticide both…

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  • All the videos from the Greek Theatre, Landscape and Environment conference that took place this past February are conveniently online in one place at: Greek Theatre, Landscape and Environment .

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  • This is one of those things that might raise an eyebrow. Here’s the summary in PhysOrg: The open air plays of the ancient Greeks may offer us a valuable insight into the Mediterranean climate of the time, reports new research in Weather. Using historical observations from artwork and plays, scientists identified ‘halcyon days’, of theatre…

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  • A couple of interviews with Dr Rabinowitz … here’s the intro to the lengthy blurb for the first: On the occasion of the Classical Reception Studies Network graduate workshop that they co-organised at the Institute of Classical Studies CC’s Anastasia Bakogianni talks to Nancy Rabinowitz, Professor of Comparative Literature at Hamilton College. They discuss their…

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