The Iliad, Scroll 1 - Reading Greek Tragedy Online
Channel: The Center for Hellenic Studies
Date: 2021-11-04

A live reading and discussion of Iliad 1, hosted by Joel Christensen (Brandeis University) with guest speakers Jared Simard (New York University) and Maria Xanthou (University of Bristol). 

Translation by Stanley Lombardo, used with permission from Hackett Publishing Company.

Special thanks to Ioannis Fappas and the Museum of Cycladic Art.

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:
Achilles - Paul Hurley
Calchas/Nestor - Damian Jermaine Thompson
Agamemnon - René Thornton Jr.
Homer/Narrator - Sara Valentine

Music - Bettina Joy de Guzman
Director - Paul O’Mahony

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

Further reading and listening:
1) Ancient Greece Declassified: "A History of Epic w/ Gregory Nagy and Leonard Muellner (Homer, Iliad, Gilgamesh) (Sep. 11, 2018).
https://www.greecepodcast.com/a-history-of-epic-w-gregory-nagy-leonard_muellner/

2) BBC's In Our Time (Sep. 13, 2018) for background on the poem itself with Edith Hall, Barbara Graziosi and Paul Cartledge. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bh5x1y

3) Porter, Andrew. 2019. Agamemnon, the Pathetic Despot: Reading Characterization in Homer. Washington D.C. : CHS. https://chs.harvard.edu/book/porter-andrew-agamemnon-the-pathetic-despot-reading-characterization-in-homer/