Goddess and the Women of Gods - Reading Greek Tragedy Online
Channel: The Center for Hellenic Studies
Date: 2021-11-18

A live reading and discussion of monologues from Greek tragedy and the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, hosted by Joel Christensen (Brandeis University) with guest speakers Suzanne Lye (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) and Jackie Murray (University of Kentucky).

Selected source texts for this episode include:
Aeschylus' Agamemnon (trans. A. Swanwick)
Sencea's Agamemnon (trans. F. J. Miller)
Euripides' Hecuba (trans. S. D. Milman)
Jean Racine's Iphigenie (trans. R. B. Boswell)
Homeric Hymn to Demeter (trans. G. Nagy)
Euripides' Hippolytus (trans. S. D. Milman)
Sophocles' Ajax (trans. G. Young)
Aristophanes' Lysistrata (trans. J. Lindsay)

Reading Greek Tragedy Online is presented by the Center for Hellenic Studies (https://chs.harvard.edu/), the Kosmos Society (https://kosmossociety.chs.harvard.edu/), and Out of Chaos Theatre (https://www.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. Learn more about the upcoming Playing Dionysos competition at https://www.out-of-chaos.co.uk/playingdionysus.

Credits in order of appearance:
Clytemnestra (Agamemnon) - Colleen Longshaw 
Cassandra - Ayanda Nhlangothi KaNokwe
Hecuba - Tamieka Chavis
Clytemnestra (Iphigenia) - Kim James Bey
Homeric Hymn to Demeter - Rad Pereira
Nurse (Hippolytus) - Evelyn Miller 
Tecmessa - Noree Victoria
Lysistrata - Nikaury Rodriguez

Director - LeeAnet Noble

More information about the cast and featured speakers can be found at 
https://chs.harvard.edu/programs/reading-greek-tragedy-online/#bios

Further reading:
1) Hall, Edith, 2006. The theatrical cast of Athens : interactions between ancient Greek drama and society. New York: Oxford University Press.

2) Schmitt Pantel, P. ed. 1992. A History of Women in the West Vol. I (A. Goldhammer, trans.), Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

3) Davidson, J., 1998. Courtesans and Fishcakes: the Consuming Passions of Classical Athens. London: Fontana Press.