Andromache, Euripides
Channel: The Center for Hellenic Studies
Date: 08/07/2020

A reading and discussion of Euripides' Andromache (translation by D. Kovacs). Tamieka Chavis, Michael Lumsden, Evelyn Miller, Brian Nelson Jr, Paul O’Mahony, Sara Valentine, and Noree Victoria perform select scenes, with Joel Christensen (Brandeis) and Katerina Ladianou (Center for Hellenic Studies) leading the discussion. Reading Greek Tragedy Online is presented by the Center for Hellenic Studies, the Kosmos Society, and Out of Chaos Theatre. 

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Text available at http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.01.0090.

Scene selections:
1-55: Andromache
147-273: Andromache, Hermione, Chorus
545-765: Peleus, Menelaus, Andromache, Chorus
891-953: Orestes, Hermione
1166-1283: Chorus, Peleus, Thetis

Credits:
Andromache - Tamieka Chavis
Peleus - Michael Lumsden
Hermione - Evelyn Miller
Menelaus - Brian Nelson Jr
Orestes - Paul O’Mahony
Chorus - Sara Valentine
Thetis - Noree Victoria

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) Allan, W. 2000. The Andromache and Euripidean tragedy. Oxford Classical Monographs. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press. 

2) Storey, I. C., and N. P. Miller. 1989. "Domestic disharmony in Euripides’ Andromache." Greece and Rome 36.1: 16–27. 

3) McClure, L. 1999. Spoken like a woman: Speech and gender in Athenian drama. Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univ. Press.