Herakles, Euripides - Reading Greek Tragedy Online
Channel: The Center for Hellenic Studies
Date: 10/04/2020

4ChorusA reading and discussion of Euripides' Herakles (translated by R. Potter, adapted by M. Ebbott & C. Dué). Tim Delap, Evelyn Miller, Richard Neale, and Paul O'Mahony perform select scenes, with Joel Christensen (Brandeis University) and Anne-Sophie Noel (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon) leading the discussion. Reading Greek Tragedy Online is presented by the Center for Hellenic Studies, the Kosmos Society, and Out of Chaos Theatre. 

Scene selections:
80-169 - Megara, Amphitryon, Chorus, Lykos
252-347 - Megara, Amphitryon, Chorus, Lykos
514-636 - Herakles, Megara, Amphitryon, Chorus 
822-873 - Iris, Lyssa
1089-1254 - Herakles, Amphitryon, Chorus, Theseus
1394-1428 - Theseus, Herakles, Amphitryon, Chorus

Credits:
Megara/Iris/Theseus - Evvy Miller
Lykos/Heracles - Tim Delap  
Amphitryon/Lyssa - Richard Neale 
Chorus - Paul O’Mahony

Director: Paul O'Mahony

More information about the cast and featured speakers is at https://chs.harvard.edu/CHS/article/display/7081.

Suggested further reading:
1) "A sampling of comments on the Herakles of Euripides" by Gregory Nagy: https://classical-inquiries.chs.harvard.edu/a-sampling-of-comments-on-the-herakles-of-euripides/.

2) Papadopoulou, T. 2005. Heracles and Euripidean tragedy. Cambridge Classical Studies. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Univ. Press.

3) Galinsky, G. K. 1972. The Herakles theme: The adaptations of the hero in literature from Homer to the twentieth century. Oxford: Blackwell. 

4) Griffiths, E. 2006. Euripides: Heracles. Duckworth Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy. London: Duckworth.