Theatre

Part of The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

With John Castro

Friedrich Nietzsche's Birth of Tragedy argues that ancient Greek tragedy achieved a perfect synthesis of the formal and orderly with the intuitive and chaotic, a civilization's vitality shown by its art, until Socrates ruined it, with guest John Castro.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

With Eli Stone

Deacon Harrison Garlick, Eli Stone, and Josiah discuss Oedipus the King by Sophocles, the play Aristotle called the best tragedy and the second in the Theban plays.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

Deacon Harrison Garlick and Dr. Frank Grabowski open Euripides' The Bacchae, tracing Dionysus' transformation from Homer's jovial wine god into a cruel and diabolical figure, in a tragedy exploring the fragility of societal order.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

A roundtable of friends wraps up Ascend's exploration of the Greek plays, from the Oresteia and Prometheus Bound to the Theban plays and the Bacchae, tracing themes of divinity, fate, and justice.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

With David Niles

Dcn. Harrison Garlick, David Niles of the Catholic Man Show, and Dr. Frank Grabowski open Sophocles' Antigone, called the dark sign from the gods, as a meditation on piety.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

With David Niles

David Niles and Dr. Frank Grabowski join Dcn. Garlick to finish Sophocles' Antigone, asking whether Antigone is the hero and how Haemon's interaction with Creon highlights his character and challenges Creon's perspective.

Michael Cacoyannis directed this 1977 film based on Euripides' Iphigenia in Aulis, the third in his Greek Tragedy trilogy, starring Tatiana Papamoschou as the daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra with a score by Mikis Theodorakis.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

With Eli Stone

Deacon Harrison Garlick and Eli Stone open Sophocles' Oedipus at Colonus, the third play published in the Theban cycle but second in its narrative chronology, recorded in rural Oklahoma.

Part of The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

With Lucy Lawless, Paul Provenza

Sophocles's Antigone, an ancient Greek tragedy, gets a philosophical discussion alongside a performance PEL also did with Lucy Lawless and Paul Provenza.

Part of Literature and History

Euripides' The Bacchae, called one of the darkest and bloodiest works of Ancient Greek tragedy, concerns the spread of cult religions during the late Peloponnesian War.

Michael Cacoyannis directed this 1962 Greek film based on Euripides' Electra, the first in his Greek tragedy trilogy followed by The Trojan Women and Iphigenia, starring Irene Papas as Elektra and Giannis Fertis as Orestis.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

The podcast concludes Euripides' The Bacchae with the tragic descent of King Pentheus and the Bacchae as a parasite upon society and the question of piety under an evil god.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

Deacon Harrison Garlick, Dr. Frank Grabowski, and Thomas Lackey open Agamemnon, the first play of Aeschylus' Oresteia, which tells of the homecoming of Agamemnon and is predominately animated by revenge.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

With Eli Stone

Deacon Harrison Garlick and Eli Stone conclude Oedipus at Colonus, where Sophocles brings Oedipus to a redemptive end and the two discuss redemptive suffering and the binding power of love.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

With Jared Zimmerer

Deacon Harrison Garlick and Dr. Jared Zimmerer discuss Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound, the first play of an otherwise lost triad, calling it the story of man and civilization, set against Prometheus' rebellion and Zeus' tyranny.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

Deacon Harrison Garlick, Dr. Frank Grabowski, and Thomas Lackey close Aeschylus' Oresteia with the second half of The Eumenides, where Athena conducts the trial of Orestes at the Areopagus, the Crag of Ares.

Written and directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini, this 1969 Italian film is based on the myth of Medea and stars Maria Callas in her only film role, largely following the myth of Jason and the Argonauts and Euripides' play Medea.

Pier Paolo Pasolini wrote and directed this 1967 Italian film based on Sophocles' 428 BC tragedy Oedipus Rex, starring his regular collaborator Franco Citti alongside Alida Valli and Carmelo Bene.

Directed by Philip Saville, this 1968 British film adaptation of the Sophoclean tragedy Oedipus Rex stars Christopher Plummer as the title character, Orson Welles as Tiresias, Lilli Palmer as Jocasta and Richard Johnson as Creon.

Yorgos Javellas directed and adapted this 1961 Greek film version of Sophocles' tragedy Antigone, starring Irene Papas in the title role.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

Deacon Harrison Garlick, Thomas Lackey, and Adam Minihan open The Libation Bearers, the second play of Aeschylus' Oresteia, where Orestes appears as both the hero and the victim of the cycle of violence.

Part of Literature and History

Masks, choruses, huge prosthetic penises: before reading Sophocles, Euripides and company, the episode says, it is a good idea to know a bit about ancient Greek theater.

Part of Professor Kozlowski Lectures

Professor Kozlowski examines Euripides' The Trojan Women and how Euripides uses and abuses Homeric form and theme to make a political argument meant to prevent the greatest political and military catastrophe in the history of Athens.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

Deacon Harrison Garlick, Dr. Frank Grabowski, and Thomas Lackey open The Eumenides, the third play of Aeschylus' Oresteia, tracing justice's shift away from the familial blood avenger.

This 1957 tragedy film records the Canadian Stratford Festival production of the William Butler Yeats adaptation of Sophocles' play, with the actors performing in masks designed by Tanya Moiseiwitsch, as was the practice in Ancient Greek theatre.

Part of The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

With Lucy Lawless, Paul Provenza

An unrehearsed, fun read-through of the Greek tragedy from 441 BCE with Lucy Lawless and Paul Provenza, plus some discussion with the cast of Greek drama and of the selected translation.

Part of Ancient Greece Today

With Andrés Carrete, David Gaitán, Perla de la Rosa

Dr Andrés Carrete of the Center for Hellenic Studies joins Naomi to discuss Sophocles' Antigone, then Mexican playwrights David Gaitán and Perla de la Rosa talk about their own versions of Antigone as political theater.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

Deacon Harrison Garlick, Adam Minihan, Thomas Lackey, and Dr. Frank Grabowski finish Agamemnon, the first play of Aeschylus' Oresteia, where Clytemnestra dominates her husband through murder, manipulation, and denial.

Part of Ancient Greece Today

With Afroditi Angelopoulou, Larry Tye

Naomi introduces Aeschylus' Oresteia, first performed in 458 BCE, discussing its politics with Professor Afroditi Angelopoulou of the University of Southern California, then talks to journalist Larry Tye about Robert F. Kennedy's use of Aeschylus in 1968.

Part of Ancient Greece Declassified

With Doug Metzger

Doug Metzger of the Literature and History podcast argues that Aeschylus turned a bloody family feud into a new founding myth for Athenian democracy across seventy-five minutes.

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Sophocles' Trachiniae leaves it unclear whether Deianeira is an innocent wife or a calculating rival to Iole, closer to Euripides' Medea or Phaedra, with Heracles as villain or hero.

Part of Lesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas

With Yvona Trnka-Amrhein, John Gibert

Yvona Trnka-Amrhein and John Gibert, both of the University of Colorado Boulder, publish the editio princeps of a newly-discovered papyrus containing lines from Euripides' fragmentary plays Ino and Poluidos.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

With Tsh Oxenreider

Tsh Oxenreider joins the podcast to discuss The Frogs by Aristophanes, where Dionysus travels to Hades to bring back Euripides and hosts a poetry contest between Aeschylus and Euripides.

Part of Greeced Lightning

Sara, Luke, and Sam tackle Aristophanes's comedy Lysistrata through Spike Lee's Chi-Raq, weighing a vow of chastity, a big brass bed, and John Cusack's role in the film.

Part of Young Heretics

Aristophanes, the genius of Old Attic Comedy, satirizes a declining education system in his play Clouds, raising the question of whether Socrates was part of the problem or part of the solution.

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With Zena Hitz

Dr. Zena Hitz of St. John's College joins Dcn. Harrison Garlick to discuss The Clouds by Aristophanes, its critique of Athenian society, and its questions about education and piety.

Part of Greeced Lightning

Sara, Luke, and Sam tour Disney's Hercules as Sara teaches everything about this himbo hero, with Sophocles' Women of Trachis on his death and Euripides' Alcestis, where he saves the heroine.

Part of Ad Navseam

Aeschylus has Io, tormented by a gadfly, show pity for the chained Prometheus, testing Stephen White's thesis that the play reinforces ancient Greek gender roles.

Part of The Rest Is History

Tom and Dominic examine Oedipus, the mythic king of Thebes who murdered his father and unwittingly married his mother, asking whether the tragedy was based on a real event and noting its later influence on Freud's reading of the subconscious.

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Aristophanes' Clouds stages a debate between Superior Argument and Inferior Argument, asking whether might makes right, whether rhetoric is all there is to law, and whether Pheidippides can be trusted with logic.

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With Deborah Roberts

Deborah Roberts of Haverford College helps open Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound, with the dialogue between smith god Hephaestus and the personifications Power and Violence, and how this telling differs from Hesiod.

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Aristophanes' Frogs imagines Dionysus, god of tragedy, descending into Hades in 405 BC to bring the recently dead Euripides back, since there are now no good poets left.

Part of Ancient Greece Today

With Ella Haselswerdt, Rosanna Bruno

Naomi discusses Euripides' Trojan Women, long considered the oldest anti-war play, with Professor Ella Haselswerdt of the University of California, Los Angeles, and Rosanna Bruno, illustrator of Euripides' Trojan Women: A Comic.

Part of The Rest Is History

Tom and Dominic explore Dionysus, the Greek god of ecstasy, revelry and madness, and the tragedy of the Bacchae, examining why female cults built around him were believed to be integral to the survival of Athens.

Part of Ancient History Fangirl

With Liv Albert

Liv Albert from Let's Talk About Myths Baby joins to explore how Dionysus subverted Roman patriarchy, plus theatre practices of the ancient Greeks, alongside retellings of Medea, Medusa and the playwright Euripides.

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Aristophanes' Clouds mixes the lofty and the scatological, and Socrates offers to teach how making Inferior Argument stronger dodges the Christmas credit card bills that recently came calling.

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With Diane Arnson Svarlien

Translator Diane Arnson Svarlien discusses her new edition of Aristophanes, covering Lysistrata and the Ladies of Thesmophoria, and what it takes to translate his comic Greek verse.

Part of Ad Navseam

Relying on David Konstan, the guys take up Ocean and the chorus of Oceanids in Prometheus Bound and compare it with Agamemnon, Sophocles' Oedipus Rex and Euripides' Hippolytus, through Deborah Roberts' translation.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

The context and themes of the surviving plays Euripides produced against the backdrop of the Peloponnesian War, from Children of Herakles and Hekabe to Trojan Women, Orestes and Iphigenia at Aulis, leaving out Bakkhai.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

Deacon Harrison Garlick, Thomas Lackey, and Adam Minihan finish The Libation Bearers, the second play of Aeschylus' Oresteia, as Orestes moves toward his climactic role as blood avenger.

Part of TROJAN WAR: THE PODCAST

Forty-five minutes of story confront Agamemnon with the sacrifice of his daughter at Aulis, then sixteen minutes of commentary compare how Aeschylus in 458 BCE and Euripides in 405 BCE reshaped the same sacrifice into their own plays.

Part of Classical Stuff You Should Know

Antigone, the last play of the Theban cycle, ends with a string of deaths triggered by one already-dead man, and the hosts also get into questions of law.

Part of Young Heretics

Opening a three-part series on civil disobedience, Spencer Klavan covers Sophocles' Antigone and the philosophy of nonviolent civil disobedience.

Part of Ancient Greece Today

With Lyndsay Coo, Janet Eilber

Dr Lyndsay Coo of the University of Bristol discusses Sophocles' Oedipus the King with Naomi, and Janet Eilber, Artistic Director of the Martha Graham Dance Company, talks about Graham's 1947 dance Night Journey, telling Oedipus's story through Jocasta.

Part of Ancient Greece Declassified

Georgetown classicist Claire Catenaccio on the evidence for ancient music, the Song of Seikilos, the aulos, the popularity of Euripides' new music, and what his songs sounded like, with three songs over 2000 years old.

Part of Lesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas

With Eric Csapo, Peter Wilson

Eric Csapo, Emeritus Professor at the University of Warwick, and Peter Wilson, William Ritchie Professor of Classics at the University of Sydney, discuss their three-volume social and economic history of the theatre to 300 BC.

Part of Classical Stuff You Should Know

Bees walks through the story of Oedipus, an ancient Greek figure who refuses to listen to the oracles, with the hosts repeating the same advice: listen to the prophets.

Part of Young Heretics

Aristophanes' comedy Assemblywomen imagines women running the world through the abolition of the family, the imposition of matriarchy and communism of everything including sex, all played for raunchy humor.

Part of New Books in Ancient History

With Mario Telò

Mario Telò's Archive Feelings (Ohio State UP, 2020) reads Greek tragedy through Derrida's Mal d'Archive and the death drive, locating its aesthetic pull beyond catharsis.

Part of Classical Stuff You Should Know

Bees leads this episode on Oedipus at Colonus, a play by Sophocles, with the word Sophoclesian coined for it along the way.

Part of Young Heretics

Asking whether the sins of the father fall on the son, Spencer Klavan opens a three-part journey through Aeschylus' Oresteia, the only surviving complete trilogy of Greek tragedies, seeking wisdom for today's debates over the history of racism.

Part of Ancient Greece Today

With Al Duncan, Rhodessa Jones

Professor Al Duncan of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill discusses Euripides' Medea as a revenge drama with Naomi, then Rhodessa Jones, founder of The Medea Project, talks about Medea and women on the edge.

Part of HistoryExtra podcast

With Michael Scott

In this episode, Michael Scott delves into the origins of ancient Greek drama and theatre.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

The Phrygian goddess Kybele, her cult's arrival in Greece in the 6th century BC and influence on Dionysos, Agdistis and Attis, Dionysos and his companions, Euripides' The Bakkhai, and Dionysiac worship, particularly in Delphi, Boiotia and the Peloponnesos.

Part of Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore

The Oedipus plays get taken as a set of three with prequels, sequels and plenty of feuding, mixing high school theater stories with political commentary along the way.

Part of Classical Stuff You Should Know

Thomas walks through Aristophanes's 'The Frogs,' with the hosts also making animal noises.

Part of The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

With Lucy Lawless, Emily Perkins

Discussion of Aristophanes's Lysistrata concludes with Lucy Lawless and Emily Perkins, asking whether Lysistrata's victory shows a feminine spirit rising over warlike values, and how that connects to women's struggles for power today.

Part of Young Heretics

Concluding Aeschylus' Oresteia, the episode traces how the trilogy puts blood guilt to rest, turning the question away from what is owed toward how a person can go on living.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

What is known of the earliest tragic poets before Aischylos, his theatrical innovations at the onset of the Classical Period, and the context and themes of his seven surviving plays, from Persians to the Oresteia trilogy.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

The life, theatrical innovations and tragedies of Sophokles, the second great Athenian playwright, and the context and themes of his seven surviving plays, from Antigone and Ajax to Oidipous at Kolonos.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

The life, theatrical innovations and tragedies of Euripides, the third great Athenian playwright, and the historicity and themes of his earliest surviving plays: Cyclops, Rhesus, Alcestis, Medea and Hippolytus.

Part of Lesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas

With Rosa Andújar

Rosa Andújar, Associate Professor of Classics at Barnard College, Columbia University, discusses her book Playing the Chorus in Greek Tragedy, examining the chorus in Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, from fragmentation to semi-choruses and actor-chorus interaction.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

The Lenaia, the intricacies of Old Comedy, what is known of the earliest comedic poets, and Aristophanes, whose eleven surviving works effectively define the genre today.

Part of The Ancients

With Sarah Iles Johnston

Dionysus, known as the party god of ancient Greece associated with theatre and mysterious cults, is explored by Tristan Hughes and Dr Sarah Iles Johnston, starting with the horrific fate of King Pentheus after he banned the god's worship.

Part of New Books in Ancient History

With Simon Critchley

Simon Critchley's Tragedy, the Greeks, and Us (Vintage, 2020) challenges Nietzsche's account of tragedy's origin, Aristotle's catharsis and Plato's hatred of the form.

Part of The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Aristotle's Poetics continues on plot structure, where every element must be essential, the moral status of heroes, Homeric poetry, the difference between tragedy and history, and whether his formula still applies to modern media.

Part of The Ancients

With Mary Beard, Charlotte Higgins

Professor Mary Beard and Charlotte Higgins join Tristan Hughes to ask how the Romans borrowed, adapted and sometimes rivalled Greek culture, and what they admired and rejected, from temples and theatre to politics and philosophy.

Part of The Ancients

With Natalie Haynes

Medea helped Jason win the Golden Fleece, betrayed her family and became one of the most feared figures in Greek myth; Tristan Hughes and Natalie Haynes trace her from Colchis to Euripides' tragedy and ask if she was a villain.

Part of In Our Time

First performed in Athens in 405 BC as the city faced defeat by Sparta, Euripides' tragedy has Pentheus, king of Thebes, torn apart by his own mother for denying the divinity of his cousin Dionysus.

Part of The Classics Podcast

With David Bullen

Academic, writer and director David Bullen answers listener questions on Greek drama: how to keep track of the different Electra plays, whether a play can exist without a plot, and his verdict on Peter Hall's Oresteia.

Part of The Classics Podcast

With Rosie Wyles

Rosie Wyles discusses Aristophanes as a source for ancient Greek history, with this third part focused on the Athens Depth Study of the Ancient History A Level syllabus.

Part of Ancient Greece Declassified

Stanford's Rush Rehm traces tragedy's origin to late sixth-century Athens, asking whether its birth alongside democracy in that city was a coincidence or a deeper connection.

Part of New Books in Ancient History

With Emily Katz Anhalt

Emily Katz Anhalt's Embattled (Redwood Press, 2021) reads Homer's Iliad and Odyssey alongside Aeschylus's Oresteia and Sophocles's Antigone as warnings against tyranny.

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Euripides' Alcestis has Admetus continue his mope-a-thon until Heracles shows up between a funeral and a house party, and a strange, silent, veiled woman brings the twist ending.

Part of Ancient Greece Declassified

Classicist Edith Hall traces how Athenian comic theater, invented after the city's democratic revolution, attacked prominent individuals who were usually in the audience and humiliated politicians like Pericles and Cleon.

Part of Lesche: Ancient Greece, New Ideas

With Ferdia Lennon

Ferdia Lennon, winner of the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize 2024, discusses his novel Glorious Exploits, set in Syracuse after the Athenian invasion of Sicily during the Peloponnesian War.

Part of The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

Aristotle's Poetics, from around 335 BCE, gives a formula for what moves an audience, drawn from Sophocles's tragedies, describing tragedy as an imitation of human action that reveals what it is to be human.

Part of The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

With Lucy Lawless, Emily Perkins

Actresses Lucy Lawless and Emily Perkins rejoin to discuss Aristophanes's bawdy play Lysistrata, drawing on Jeffery Henderson's introduction to his 1988 translation and readings including Sexual Humor and Harmony in Lysistrata by Jay Semel.

Part of Spirits: Mythology, Legends, & Folklore

Continuing their theatre grind, the hosts take on The Bacchae, a play about debauchery, tragedy, and Dionysus that even doubles as a play about plays.

Part of Classical Stuff You Should Know

The Clouds, the play that helped doom Socrates, gets a bawdy tour from Thomas, with some of it edited out under jaunty music and a warning to listeners with small children.

Part of Young Heretics

The middle play of the Oresteia asks who Orestes is and what kind of man he will become, using the tragedy to raise questions about facing life's unfairness.

Part of Ancient Greece: Myth, Art, War

With Heather Sebo

Dr Heather Sebo examines Sophocles' Ajax, one of the earliest surviving Greek plays, produced around 440 BC, and its tragic hero's struggle to cope with a changing world.

Part of Ancient Greece: Myth, Art, War

With Heather Sebo

Dr Heather Sebo traces Euripides' Iphigenia in Aulis, performed late in the Peloponnesian War, following the mythical decisions that send the Greek fleet to Troy.

Part of Ancient Greece: Myth, Art, War

Dr Gillian Shepherd traces the finale of the Sicilian Expedition and the Melian Dialogue into the Great Dionysia, the festival in the Theatre of Dionysos where Aeschylos, Sophocles and Euripides staged drama as part of Athenian politics.

Part of Ancient Greece: Myth, Art, War

With Heather Sebo

Dr Heather Sebo reads Aristophanes' Lysistrata, staged soon after the Athenian defeat at Syracuse, as a comedy about a sex strike that carries real messages on the futility of war and the position of women in Athens.

Part of The History of Ancient Greece

Drama's origins in the Attic countryside, its relation to the cult of Dionysos, its introduction to Athens in the late 6th century BC, actors from Thespis onward, the Rural and City Dionysia, and drama's civic importance.

Part of HistoryExtra podcast

With Sarah Nooter

Classicist Sarah Nooter tells Emily Briffett whether tragedy or comedy drew the bigger crowds on the ancient Greek stage, whether audiences were raucous or civilised, and how modern theatrical productions draw on these ancient antecedents.

Part of In Our Time

The Greek city of Thebes, home in myth to Heracles, Dionysus, Oedipus and Cadmus among others, was infamous for supporting Xerxes in the Persian War and was defeated by the rising force of Macedon at Chaironea in 338 BC.

This 2006 short IMAX documentary from MacGillivray Freeman Films is set across the Greek Isles and covers the Minoan eruption, the Parthenon, philosophy, theatre, democracy and the Olympics.

Part of Reimagining Ancient Greece and Rome: APGRD Podcast

With Helen Eastman

Creation Theatre's Artistic Director Dr Helen Eastman discusses the company's digital production of Sophocles' Antigone, which premiered in May 2024 and returns in September and November that year.

Part of Reimagining Ancient Greece and Rome: APGRD Podcast

With Zachary Dunbar, Stephe Harrop

Zachary Dunbar and Stephe Harrop discuss their Rob Jordan Prize-winning book Greek Tragedy and the Contemporary Actor, published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2018, combining academic research with performance practice.

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Euripides' Alcestis, which even devotees of tragedy may not know, has Apollo and Thanatos trade rap-battle insults while hubby Admetus behaves insufferably; its poet is the man the Athenians loved to hate.

Part of Reimagining Ancient Greece and Rome: APGRD Podcast

With Rhodessa Jones, Nancy Rabinowitz, Angela Wilson

Rhodessa Jones, who founded The Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women/HIV Circle in 1989, discusses its origins with Nancy Rabinowitz, Professor Emerita at Hamilton College, and core member Angela Wilson, formerly incarcerated.

Part of In Our Time

Written in the 4th century BC, Aristotle's Poetics is the first known work of literary theory, examining drama and epic poetry and analysing tragedy, and defends poetry against attacks by other thinkers including Aristotle's own teacher Plato.

Part of Ithaca Bound

With Andrew Walker White

Dr Andrew Walker White of George Mason University discusses how the 5th century BCE shaped Athenian theatre, a period formative for the industry as a whole.

Part of In Our Time

In Aristophanes' The Birds, two Athenians sought a Utopian refuge and founded a city of birds christened, in 414 BC, 'Cloud Cuckoo Land'.

Part of New Books in Ancient History

With Robert C. Bartlett

Robert Bartlett discusses translating Aristophanes' The Acharnians and The Knights alongside Aristotle's The Art of Rhetoric, on how public speech can turn demagogic.

Part of Expanding Eyes: A Visionary Education

Greek tragedy was ritualized and stylized, with masked actors and a singing, dancing chorus; the opening scene of Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound shows Prometheus bound to the rock by Hephaestus, in a play about limits.

Part of Reimagining Ancient Greece and Rome: APGRD Podcast

With Leo Aylen, David Wiles

Poet and director Leo Aylen discusses his sell-out production of Antigone at the Greenwich Theatre with David Wiles, Emeritus Professor of Drama at the University of Exeter, who has translated several Greek plays.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

Deacon Harrison Garlick and Adam Minihan introduce Aeschylus, born in 525 BC, a warrior who fought at the Battle of Marathon in 490 BC and became the father of Greek tragedy.

Part of Reimagining Ancient Greece and Rome: APGRD Podcast

With Oliver Taplin, Giovanna Di Martino

Professor Oliver Taplin and Dr Giovanna Di Martino discuss Sicily's relationship with ancient Greek drama, starting from images of the 1914 production of Aeschylus' Agamemnon at the ancient theatre at Syracuse.

Part of Ancient History Hound

Classical Athens is famous for introducing theatre and Tragedy, and this episode tries to piece together how it developed into a main component of the City Dionysia, with rude puppets and wild processions.

Part of History Unplugged Podcast

With James Romm

Of an estimated 1,500 ancient Greek plays, only 33 survive complete; a fifth-century AD anthology preserved excerpts from over 500 Greek authors, and guest James Romm became the first scholar to translate many fragments as poetry.

Part of Reimagining Ancient Greece and Rome: APGRD Podcast

With Paul O'Mahony, Joel P. Christensen, Lanah Koelle

Artistic director Paul O'Mahony, host Joel Christensen, and executive producer Lanah Koelle discuss Reading Greek Tragedy Online, begun during the COVID-19 lockdown with over 60 actors and researchers aiming to present all extant Greek tragedies by the end of 2020.

Part of Ithaca Bound

With Andrew Walker White

Theatre artist and cultural historian Dr Andrew Walker White discusses what scholars know about early theatre in Greece.

Part of Expanding Eyes: A Visionary Education

In the fourth act of Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound, a proud and defiant Prometheus faces Zeus's messenger Hermes; the lost final play of the trilogy featured his reconciliation with Zeus.

Part of The Classics Podcast

With Rosie Wyles

In the first part of this episode on Aristophanes, Rosie Wyles and James Renshaw cover the Greek Period Study, discussing how the comedies work as a source for ancient Greek history.

Part of Ascend - The Great Books Podcast

Deacon Harrison Garlick explains why the Greek plays form an intellectual bridge between Plato and Homer, naming justice, eros, fate and divinity as major themes and introducing each play to be read.

Part of Expanding Eyes: A Visionary Education

In the second act of Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound, Prometheus speaks to Oceanus, who counsels repentance and humble obedience; Prometheus responds with a speech in which fire becomes the fire of the creative mind.

Part of The Hellenistic Age Podcast

Menander of Athens, the most renowned comic author of antiquity and father of New Comedy, drew humor from everyday people through stock characters and romance plots; of his 108 plays only The Dyskolos survives complete.

Part of The Greek Myth Files

The episode covers the healing gods Apollo, Paion and Asklepios, then turns to the myth of Admetos and Alcestis that Euripides dramatized on stage.

Part of Reimagining Ancient Greece and Rome: APGRD Podcast

With Hannah Greenstreet, Charlotte Vickers

Hannah Greenstreet and Charlotte Vickers, writer and director of the TORCH-funded project Andromeda, discuss their queer retelling of Euripides' lost play ahead of a full production at Camden People's Theatre.

Part of Triumvir Clio's School of Classical Civilization

Medea unfolds as what this episode calls the messiest divorce in Greek mythology, framing the whole tragedy around that breakup.

Part of Myth Madness: A Mythology Podcast

After Eteocles and Polynices die, Oedipus's daughters Antigone and Ismene face a quieter tragedy from Sophocles; Antigone insists on burying her brother Polynices, bringing her into conflict with Thebes's new regent Creon.

Part of Triumvir Clio's School of Classical Civilization

Dyskolos represents the last Greek comedy covered in this series, and the title calls Menander's play what remains of the New Comedy.

Part of Mysteries of Mythology

Dionysus became patron of Greek theatre, linked to Zagreus and rebirth, journeyed to the Underworld for Semele, and appears in Linear B evidence showing Mycenaean Greece already worshipped him.

Part of Triumvir Clio's School of Classical Civilization

Euripides's Electra gives his own bloody take on Orestes and Electra's story, after other tragedians had each already covered the same pair.

Part of Not another Greek History podcast!

The episode asks what Taylor Swift and Greek tragedy have in common besides killer choruses, whether Aristotle predicted the Eras Tour 2,300 years ago, and whether The Life of a Showgirl is actually a myth in disguise.

Part of Triumvir Clio's School of Classical Civilization

The Phoenician Women offers Euripides's own version of the Oedipus story, diverging from what earlier tragedians had already established.

Part of Triumvir Clio's School of Classical Civilization

Helen turns up alive in Egypt in this version of the story, while everyone else believes she has been in Troy all along.

Part of Triumvir Clio's School of Classical Civilization

Ion is another Euripides tragedy that turns out not to be entirely tragic, keeping the tone unpredictable across his plays.

Part of Triumvir Clio's School of Classical Civilization

Trojan Women is called pretty grim here, part of a career the episode says keeps getting darker, flagged with a warning for a grisly infanticide within its story.

Part of Epic Greek History

The episode credits the Athenian tyrant Pisistratus with centralizing Attic worship of Dionysus into the Great Dionysia, the festival where Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides later competed for top honors.

Part of Garner's Greek Mythology

Dionysos, the wine-god the Romans called Bacchus, was alternately celebrated and feared as the exotic god of ecstasy and dance, and his marriage to the princess Ariadne was celebrated in Greece like Romeo and Juliet in Italy 3,000 years later.

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Iphigenia in Tauris turns out surprisingly light by Euripides's standards, breaking the pattern of his plays growing darker over his career.

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The Suppliants follows what becomes of the rest of the seven men from the story of Seven Against Thebes.

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The episode on Euripides's Bacchae opens with a single warning about the play's god: whatever you do, do not question Dionysos's divinity.

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Euripides's Orestes is presented here as one more variation on the story of Orestes, a story the episode says it is not quite done with.

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Rosie Wyles and James revise Aristophanes' Acharnians lines 524 to 539 and the comedy Peace, completing the Period Study sources for the Ancient History A Level syllabus.

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Rosie Wyles and James Renshaw discuss how Aristophanes' comedies serve as a source for ancient Greek history, with this second part focused on the Sparta Depth Study.

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Oedipus at Colonus closes out Sophocles's plays in this series, showing both the playwright and Oedipus himself as old men.

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Aristophanes' comedy Lysistrata anchors this revision episode, with Rosie Wyles taking James through the play for the Sparta Depth Study on the Ancient History A Level syllabus.

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Six cursed generations known as the House of Atreus span 800 miles from Troy to Athens in a classic Greek tragedy that begins with Zeus and unfolds into murder, deceit, incest, matricide and suicide.

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Euripides never finished writing Iphigenia at Aulis before he died, leaving it to a descendant to complete the play.

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Andromache gets compared here to Clare Boothe Luce's The Women, a play the episode imagines Euripides could have co-written, ripostes and all.

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In this bitesize revision episode Rosie Wyles and James work through Aristophanes' Clouds, one of the set sources for the Athens Depth Study on the Ancient History A Level syllabus.

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Hippolytus is introduced through a line about Aphrodite, on just how good, and how horrid, the goddess can be.

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With Plutus the series finishes the last play of Aristophanes, the thirteenth of his comedies to be read here in order.

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Antigone gets reviewed here as another Greek tragedy which, as with many Greek tragedies, includes the subject of suicide.

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With Rosie Wyles

A revision run through Aristophanes for the Ancient History A Level Athens Depth Study, with Rosie Wyles covering the comedies Knights and Wasps as the final two sources in that depth study.

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The Cyclops stands as the only surviving Satyr Play from ancient Greece, a third dramatic genre alongside comedy and tragedy.

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Heracleidae follows what happens to the children of Heracles in Euripides's take, after an earlier episode on Sophocles's version of the death of Heracles.

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This episode introduces Euripides as, comparatively, the cheeriest of the Greek tragedians, through his play about Alcestis.

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Oedipus Rex gets discussed here as probably the single most famous Greek tragedy of them all.

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Heracles pairs Herakles with Megara in a story that ends far less happily than the Disney version of the same names.

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Ajax marks the turn to Sophocles in this series, a tragedy flagged with a warning for its treatment of suicide.

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This episode covers Aeschylus's The Suppliants, distinct from the later play of the same name that Euripides would go on to write.

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With Rosie Wyles

A revision episode on Aristophanes' comedy Thesmophoriazusae, one of the Athens Depth Study sources for the Ancient History A Level syllabus, with Rosie Wyles guiding James through the text.

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This revision episode opens with an introduction to ancient comedy and Aristophanes' work before Rosie Wyles and James turn to Archarnians lines 61 to 71 as a set source.

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