Performing Epic: The Iliad
Channel: The Center for Hellenic Studies
Date: 2020-10-08

A reading and discussion of the Iliad (translation by Stanley Lombardo, courtesy of Hackett Publishing Company), hosted by Joel Christensen (Brandeis University) with special guest Lynn Kozak (McGill University). Featured performers include Tabatha Gayle, Paul O'Mahony, Rhys Rusbatch, and Sara Valentine.

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.

Excerpts from:
Rhapsody 1 Agamemnon and Achilles’ argument 
Rhapsody 6 Hector and Andromache
Rhapsody 22 Andromache’s first lament for Hector
Rhapsody 24 Achilles and Priam
Rhapsody 24 Priam, Hecuba, Andromache and Helen lament for Hector

Cast, all playing various roles:
Tabatha Gayle
Paul O'Mahony
Rhys Rusbatch
Sara Valentine

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 and viewing:
1) Kretler, Katherine. 2020. One Man Show: Poetics and Presence in the Iliad and Odyssey. Hellenic Studies Series 78. Washington, DC: Center for Hellenic Studies. http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:hul.ebook:CHS_KretlerK.One_Man_Show.2020.

2) Simona Giurgea performs Simone Weil’s essay “The Iliad or the Poem of Force": https://youtu.be/dMlweTL9000

3) Edith Hall on "21st-Century Responses to the Homeric Iliad": https://youtu.be/5lbZO0CxwQA

4) "Reading Consent Into the Iliad. The Stakes of Writing From Briseis' Perspective" by Rachel Herzog: https://eidolon.pub/reading-consent-into-the-iliad-e2c42ae0b221