Phoenician Women, Euripides
Channel: The Center for Hellenic Studies
Date: 2020-10-01

A reading and discussion of Euripides' Phoencian Women (translation by C. A. E. Luschnig, courtesy of Hackett Publishing Company), hosted by Joel Christensen (Brandeis University) with special guest Anna Lamari (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki). Featured actors include Tamieka Chavis, Tabatha Gayle, Richard Klautsch, Sara Valentine, Noree Victoria, and Argyris Xafis.

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 https://www.out-of-chaos.co.uk/playingmedea. To support Out of Chaos Theatre, visit https://fundrazr.com/b1oWw3?ref=ab_6ACAcc.

Scene selections:
216-637:  Polynices, Eteocles, Jocasta, Chorus 
833-1018: Creon, Tiresias, Menoeceus, Chorus 
1356-1477: Messenger 
1584-1724: Creon, Oedipus, Antigone

Credits:
Jocasta/Tiresias  - Tamieka Chavis 
Antigone/Eteocles - Tabatha Gayle
Creon - Richard Klautsch 
Menoeceus/Messenger - Sara Valentine 
Chorus - Noree Victoria 
Polynices/Oedipus - Argyris Xafis 

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) Papadopoulou, T. 2008. Euripides: Phoenician Women. Duckworth Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy. London: Duckworth. 

2) Swift, L. A. 2009. "Sexual and familial distortion in Euripides’ Phoenissae." Transactions of the American Philological Association 139.1: 53–87. 

3) Arthur, M. B. 1977. "The curse of civilization: The choral odes of the Phoenissae." Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 81:163–185.