Hecuba, Euripides
Channel: The Center for Hellenic Studies
Date: 2020-06-24

A reading and discussion of Euripides' Hecuba (translated by J. Kardan and L. Gray-Street). Carlos Bellato, Tajh Bellow, Tamieka Chavis, Tim Delap, Evelyn Miller, and Eunice Roberts perform select scenes, with Joel Christensen (Brandeis University) and Toph Marshall (University of British Columbia) 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 https://www.didaskalia.net/issues/8/32/HecubaKardanStreet.pdf

Scene selections:
59–97 - Hecuba 
177–443 - Hecuba, Polyxena, Chorus, Odysseus 
953–1295 - Polymestor, Chorus, Hecuba, Agamemnon

Credits:
Hecuba - Eunice Roberts
Polyxena - Evelyn Miller
Chorus - Tamieka Chavis
Odysseus - Tajh Bellow
Polymestor - Tim Delap
Agamemnon - Carlos Bellato

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) Mossman, J. 1995. Wild justice: A study of Euripides’ Hecuba. Oxford Classical Monographs. Oxford: Clarendon. 

2) Barker, E. T. E. 2009. Entering the agon: Dissent and authority in Homer, historiography, and tragedy. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press. 

3) Collard, C., ed. and trans. 1991. Hecuba. Classical Texts. Warminster, UK: Aris and Phillips.