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  1. The Age of Tyrants: Sappho Via Gounod’s Opera (2017)

    Subject
    Film studies; Literature

    The heroine of Charles Gounod’s French opera Sapho (1851) sings her last aria O My Immortal Lyre on a Greek cliff before plunging to her death. Sappho, the most famous poet of the ‘Lyric Age’ of...

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  2. Homer’s Iliad Via the Movie Troy (2004) (2017)

    Subject
    Film studies; Literature

    Homer’s Iliad, the earliest Greek poem, narrates the archetypal war between ‘Europeans’ and ‘Asiatics’ divided by the Hellespont. Looking at Wolfgang Peterson’s blockbuster Troy (2004), the...

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  3. Ancient World According to Terry Jones, The (2010)

    Director
    Phil Grabsky
    Subject
    History
    Distribution
    Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 300 minutes), £30.00

    Terry Jones looks at the hidden side of the ancient world in the three part series. The SURPRISING HISTORY OF SEX AND LOVE traces changes in attitudes and practices to sex over the centuries. The second...

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  4. Sophia on the Cydnus: Shakespeare’s Alexandrian Softscapes (Video)

    Subject
    English language and literature; Religious studies; Shakespeare

    Recording of an online illustrated lecture by Julia Reinhard Lupton (University of California, Irvine) on Shakespeare and Hebrew wisdom literature, delivered as part of the SEDERI Conference in Barcelona....

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  5. Midsummer Night’s Dream, A: Synopsis (Audio)

    Subject
    Drama; Shakespeare

    Podcast created, produced and hosted by American actors Korey Leigh Smith and Elyse Sharp, two self-confessed ‘Shakespeare nerds’ who devote multiple episode to analysing the Bard’s work. In this...

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  6. Midsummer Night’s Dream, A: Stuff to Chew on (Audio)

    Subject
    Drama; Shakespeare

    Podcast created, produced and hosted by American actors Korey Leigh Smith and Elyse Sharp, two self-confessed ‘Shakespeare nerds’ who devote multiple episode to analysing the Bard’s work. In this...

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