Greek Tragedy in Performance
26/02/2025 – 26/03/2025
Online
Hellenic Society & Roman Society Online Course
6.00pm - 7.30pm (UK time) + recordings will be available
Professor Judith Mossman: Greek Tragedy in Performance
This course studies how Greek tragedy was performed in ancient Athens and beyond, and how studying performance can deepen our understand of the texts that survive. In many ways ancient theatrical conventions were very different from modern Western drama. Studying them helps us not only to understand the plays better but also the society which produced them.
Session Topics
Session 1: Wednesday 26 February: Theatre Spaces
Session 2: Wednesday 5 March: Theatre People: Choregoi, Actors, Costumes, Props and Masks
Session 3: Wednesday 12 March: Aeschylus, Agamemnon
Session 4: Wednesday 19 March: Sophocles, Philoctetes
Session 5: Wednesday 26 March: Euripides, Bacchae
Each week there will be one piece of recommended reading which, where possible, will be made available on line: these will be announced in advance nearer the time.
Judith Mossman is now Professor Emerita of Classics at Coventry University, having been Pro-Vice-Chancellor for Arts and Humanities there until August 2024. She was previously Professor of Classics at the University of Nottingham from January 2004 until 2017. From 1991 to December 2003, she was a Senior Lecturer and Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, where she moved from a Junior Research Fellowship at Christ Church, Oxford. She has published widely on Euripides and on Plutarch. She has written a monograph on Euripides’ Hecuba, and has edited Euripides’ Medea. At present she is writing a book on Plutarch’s linguistic interests and how they shape his work. She has been President (now Vice-President) of the Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, and is currently Chair of Council of the Classical Association.
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