The Chorus
Channel: The Center for Hellenic Studies
Date: 2020-07-29

"The Chorus," a special edition of Reading Greek Tragedy Online focusing on choral passages and performance. Featured performers include Hannah Barrie, Bettina Joy de Guzman, Tim Delap, T. Lynn Mikeska, Evelyn Miller, Paul O'Mahony, and Sara Valentine. Joel Christensen (Brandeis University) and Anna S. Uhlig (University of California, Davis) lead the discussion. Translations of selected texts are by Ian Johnston. 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 support Out of Chaos Theatre, visit https://fundrazr.com/b1oWw3?ref=ab_6ACAcc.

Texts available at http://johnstoniatexts.x10host.com/.

Choral passage selections include:

Antigone parados (Bettina Joy de Guzman)
Agamemnon parados 
Antigone Ode to Man (Sara Valentine)
Medea 5th stasimon 
Antigone 5th stasimon (Bettina Joy de Guzman)
Eumenides binding song (T. Lynn Mikesha)

More information about the performers and commentators is at https://chs.harvard.edu/CHS/article/display/7081.

Suggested further reading:
1) Foley, Helene P. 2003. "Choral identity in Greek tragedy." Classical Philology 98.1: 1–30.

2) Kowalzig, Barbara. 2004. "Changing choral worlds: Song-dance and society in Athens and beyond." In Music and the muses: The culture of “mousikē” in the classical Athenian city. Edited by Penelope Murray and Peter J. Wilson, 39–65. Oxford and New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 

3) Billings, Joshua H., Felix Budelmann, and Fiona Macintosh, eds. 2013. Choruses ancient and modern. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press.