Some interesting stuff in this one … didn’t know about the Julius Caesar ‘sphere’:
Category: Video
Ancient Greek Mythbusters
I came across this one a while ago but didn’t post it for some reason … it’s a bit shaky and seems to end abruptly, but we Classicists are used to that sort of thing:
Video of the Moment: The Public Intellectual in Classical Athens and Today
I thought I had posted this the other day, but I think my internet went kablooey …. in any event, this was posted at the Classics International group on Facebook and features Bettany Hughes, Charlotte Higgins, and Edith Hall:
Video of the Moment: Really Vintage Ancient Rome Film
This one just showed up on Youtube and I am not familiar with the first bit; the second bit is from the 1907 version of Ben Hur, but this one’s really interesting (not least for scenes of gladiatorial fighting, the fire of Rome, Nero (maybe) etc.). You should check out the ‘time markers’ first to see what is coming up at Countrywide Productions (whence the video, it seems):
Odyssey Movie
This popped up in my ‘recommended’ column at Youtube … probably won’t stay up long but it was an okay version if you’ve never seen it … it was a minseries back in the late 90s (IMDB) … Armand Assante was the Ithacan … Greta Scacchi is Penelope … couldn’t quite get Bernadette Peters as Circe, though:
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