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In a series of workshops actress Fiona Shaw and some drama students explore ways in which ‘Medea’, Euripedes’ violent play of revenge and murder, might be realised for a modern audience. Focuses on two...
Tours of Teotihuacán, Pompeii, Petra, and four of Crete’s Bronze-Age palaces. Each site includes the complete article from the ‘Scientific American’ anthology ‘Ancient Cities’, plus animations,...
Looks at the history of mime from Greek and Roman times, through ‘Commedia dell’Arte’, to the present.
The course takes as its focus the two epic poems of Homer, ‘The Odyssey’ and ‘The Iliad’. Part 1 places the archaeological site of Troy geographically and topographically; interviews Professor...
Part 1: ‘Odysseus: the Greatest Hero of them All’ is a sequence designed to compare and contrast with the original, but looks at the art of storytelling as well as at ‘the story’. ‘Storytelling at...
The state of British agriculture at the time of the Roman invasion is a subject of dispute among archaeologists. Explores the implications of this dispute through the study of two sites: the Lunt Roman Fort,...
Examines the Celtic, Greek and Roman archaeological remains in Arles, Entremont and Glanum. Traces the growth of Roman influence through the establishment of the first Roman province in southern France and...
Examines the architectural achievements of Herod the Great, using some aerial footage, and assesses his relationship both with the Jews and with Rome. Caesarea and Samaria (Sebaste) and the base of the...
Roman wall-painting. Begins with the Garden Room from the Empress Livia’s country house at Prima Porta, then concentrates on three houses in Pompeii: the House of the Fruit Orchard, the House of Marcus...
Places in context the portraits of the Emperor Augustus that have survived on coins and as busts. Discusses the development of portraiture from the idealised representations of Alexander the Great through to...
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