Argonautica, Apollonius of Rhodes - Reading Greek Tragedy Online
Channel: The Center for Hellenic Studies
Date: 2021-04-29

A reading and discussion of Apollonius of Rhodes’Argonautica, hosted by Joel Christensen (Brandeis University) with special guest Jackie Murray (University of Kentucky). 

Translation by Aaron Poochigian, used with author’s permission.

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 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.

Credits:
Hannah Barrie - Narrator/Phineus 
Tamieka Chavis - Narrator
Paul Hurley - Narrator/Aeetes
Lily Ling - Jason
Natasha Magigi - Medea
David Rubin - Narrator/Heracles

Director: Paul O’Mahony
Lighting Design: SeifAllah Salotto-Cristobal

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

Suggested further reading:
1) "Apollonius of Rhodes and Homeric Anger" by Stan Burgess: https://classical-inquiries.chs.harvard.edu/apollonius-of-rhodes-and-homeric-anger/

2) "Remapping the Mediterranean: The Argo adventure Apollonius and Callimachus" by Susan Stephens (Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics): https://www.princeton.edu/~pswpc/pdfs/stephens/050702.pdf

3) Phillips, Tom. 2020. Untimely Epic. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

4) Hunter, Richard. 1993. The Argonautica of Apollonius: Literary studies. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Univ. Press.