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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...
Explores why Athens is thought of as the birthplace of democracy and the ways in which Athenian democracy differed from what we would recognise as democratic now. Looks at the 19th-century origins of the...
Explores the civilisation of Greece throughout the period 1500-100 BC. Uses live photography, architectural reconstructions and works of art to recreate the country’s history. Explores Mycenae, Corinth,...
Extracts from the writings of Thucydides are used to look at the causes and effects of the Peloponesian war. By the late 5th century BC Greece had become crowded with prosperous cities all striving for...
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