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An interactive guide to Homer’s ‘Odyssey’, containing the complete text with introduction, synopsis, key events, themes, glossary, quotations; an overview of each book; maps of places visited by...
A television adaptation of Homer’s epic classic poem about the travels of Odysseus. After the Greek victory at Troy, Odysseus is hindered in returning home by the gods he has offended and must confront a...
Series looking at how the ancient civilisations in China, India, Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece, Rome and meso-America originated, what sustained them and why they fell.
Explores the civilisation of Greece throughout the period 1500-100 BC. Live-action photography, combined with architectural reconstructions and ancient works of art are used to show Mycenae, site of the...
Explores the tensions between ancient and modern dramatic performance conventions inherent in attempts to recreate Euripides’ Greek tragedy ‘Medea’. Examines various aspects of Greek drama - the space...
A production of ‘Antigone’ performed by the Classics Department of the University of Otago, New Zealand. The play expands on the theme of divine versus human law. Antigone, daughter of Oedipus, wishes to...
A support video comprising four programmes. [See individual programme titles for synopses.]
Support video comprising four television programmes from course A294. [See individual programme titles for synopses.]
Traces the causes and course of the Persian Wars, from the Ionian revolt against Persian rule in the town of Miletus in 499BC to the Battle of Platea. Filmed on location, shows the major sites of the...
Using a modern translation of ‘Antigone’ by Michael Ewans for the ‘Everyman Classics’ series, the production is designed to explore the ways in which Sophocles originally staged his drama. Performed...
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