Hippolytus, Euripides
Channel: The Center for Hellenic Studies
Date: 2020-08-27

A reading and discussion of Euripides' Hippolytus (translation by Ian Johnston), hosted by Joel Christensen (Brandeis University) with special guest Eirene Visvardi (Wesleyan University). Featured actors include Noelia Antweiler, Mariah Gale, Marietta Hedges, Toph Marshall, David Rubin, Rhys Rusbatch, and Noree Victoria.

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 or check out https://www.out-of-chaos.co.uk/playingmedea. To support Out of Chaos Theatre, visit https://fundrazr.com/b1oWw3?ref=ab_6ACAcc.

Text available at http://johnstoniatexts.x10host.com/euripides/hippolytushtml.html

Scene selections:
Lines 1-87: Aphrodite, Hippolytus, Chorus/Attendants
Lines 198-518: Phaedra, Nurse, Chorus
Lines 601-667: Nurse, Hippolytus, Phaedra (present but unseen)
Lines 885-1101: Theseus, Hippolytus, Chorus
Lines 1153-1466: Messenger, Theseus, Hippolytus, Artemis, Chorus

Credits:
Artemis and Aphrodite - Noree Victoria
Hippolytus - Rhys Rusbatch
Phaedra - Mariah Gale
Nurse - Marietta Hedges
Theseus - David Rubin
Messenger - Toph Marshall
Chorus - Noelia Antweiler

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) Mills, S. 2002. Euripides: Hippolytus. Duckworth Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy. London: Duckworth. 

2) Segal, C. P. 1978. "Pentheus and Hippolytus on the couch and on the grid: Psychoanalytic and structuralist readings of Greek tragedy." Classical World 72.3: 129–148.

3) Furley, W. D. 1996. "Phaedra’s pleasurable aidos (Eur. Hipp. 380–7)." Classical Quarterly, n.s., 46.1: 84–90. (Concise summary of earlier critical treatments of Phaedra’s speech on human fallibility and its relation to Socratic doctrine.)