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A reading and discussion of Aeschylus' Eumenides (or Orestes at Athens, translation by Oliver Taplin), hosted by Joel Christensen (Brandeis University) with special guests with Ellen McLaughlin (Barnard College), Andrew Simpson (Catholic University of America), and Oliver Taplin (University of Oxford). The cast includes Carlos Bellato, Tamieka Chavis, Tim Delap, Tabatha Gayle, Evelyn Miller, and Eunice Roberts.
Reading Greek Tragedy Online is presented by the Center for Hellenic Studies (chs.harvard.edu), the Kosmos Society (kosmossociety.chs.harvard.edu/), and Out of Chaos Theatre (out-of-chaos.co.uk). For more information about outreach opportunities through the Reading Greek Tragedy Online project, contact outofchaosplays@gmail.com. To learn about the Medea scene competition, visit out-of-chaos.co.uk/playingmedea. To support Out of Chaos Theatre, visit fundrazr.com/b1oWw3?ref=ab_6ACAcc.
More information about the translation is available at wwnorton.co.uk/books/9781631494666-the-oresteia.
Scene selections:
Most of the play will be performed with some sections cut for time.
Credits:
Orestes - Tim Delap
Pythia/Apollo - Evelyn Miller
Clytemnestra/Athena - Eunice Roberts
Chorus - Carlos Bellato, Tamieka Chavis, Tabatha Gayle
Director - Paul O'Mahony
Music and Sound Design - Carlos Bellato
More information about the cast and featured speakers is at https://chs.harvard.edu/CHS/article/display/7081.
Suggested further reading:
1) Bacon, Helen. 2001. The Furies’ homecoming. Classical Philology 96:48–59.
2) Mitchell-Boyask, Robin N. 2009. Aeschylus: Eumenides. London: Duckworth.
3) Rynearson, Nicholas. 2013. Courting the Erinyes: Persuasion, sacrifice, and seduction in Aeschylus’s Eumenides. Transactions of the American Philological Association 143:1–22.
A reading and discussion of Aeschylus' Eumenides (or Orestes at Athens, translation by Oliver Taplin), hosted by Joel Christensen (Brandeis University) with special guests with Ellen McLaughlin (Barnard College), Andrew Simpson (Catholic University of America), and Oliver Taplin (University of Oxford). The cast includes Carlos Bellato, Tamieka Chavis, Tim Delap, Tabatha Gayle, Evelyn Miller, and Eunice Roberts.
Reading Greek Tragedy Online is presented by the Center for Hellenic Studies (chs.harvard.edu), the Kosmos Society (kosmossociety.chs.harvard.edu/), and Out of Chaos Theatre (out-of-chaos.co.uk). For more information about outreach opportunities through the Reading Greek Tragedy Online project, contact outofchaosplays@gmail.com. To learn about the Medea scene competition, visit out-of-chaos.co.uk/playingmedea. To support Out of Chaos Theatre, visit fundrazr.com/b1oWw3?ref=ab_6ACAcc.
More information about the translation is available at wwnorton.co.uk/books/9781631494666-the-oresteia.
Scene selections:
Most of the play will be performed with some sections cut for time.
Credits:
Orestes - Tim Delap
Pythia/Apollo - Evelyn Miller
Clytemnestra/Athena - Eunice Roberts
Chorus - Carlos Bellato, Tamieka Chavis, Tabatha Gayle
Director - Paul O'Mahony
Music and Sound Design - Carlos Bellato
More information about the cast and featured speakers is at https://chs.harvard.edu/CHS/article/display/7081.
Suggested further reading:
1) Bacon, Helen. 2001. The Furies’ homecoming. Classical Philology 96:48–59.
2) Mitchell-Boyask, Robin N. 2009. Aeschylus: Eumenides. London: Duckworth.
3) Rynearson, Nicholas. 2013. Courting the Erinyes: Persuasion, sacrifice, and seduction in Aeschylus’s Eumenides. Transactions of the American Philological Association 143:1–22.
