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Shows life on Symi, a barren but beautiful Greek island in the Aegean Sea close to the coast of Turkey. The island has suffered a decline in prosperity and population over the past fifty or more years; the...
Shows the range of themes from mythology and daily life which occur on Greek vases of the 6th and 5th centuries BC. The vases shown are from the British Museum collection.
This video contains excerpts from off-Broadway experimental productions of director Andrei Serban’s flamboyant interpretations of Electra, Medea, and The Trojan Women. Critic Margaret Croyden explains how...
Looks at the Parthenon of Athens and how it symbolises the development of democracy in ancient Greece. Sequences filmed all over the Peloponnese and the Cyclades Islands tell the story of the struggle to...
A wry look at the Colonels’ Greece five years after the 1967 coup. Attempts to discover what the new order entails for the Greek people. Covers the events which led up to the 1967 coup, from the Civil War...
An examination of the artistic and architectural significance of the Acropolis and its sculpture, using shots of the Acropolis today as well as scale models showing how the ruined buildings originally appeared.
Features scenes from Sophocles’ ‘Electra’, directed by Dimitrios Rondiris of the National Theatre of Greece, an authority on classical Greek movement and the vocal style of the Chorus. It provides a...
A 1959 television adaptation by Robinson Jeffers of Euripides’ ‘Medea’ starring Judith Anderson.
Sir Tyrone Guthrie directs a version of ‘Oedipus Rex’ using W B Yest’s translation. Here, the actors wear masks, thus performing their roles just as the Greeks did in Sophocles’ time.
Podcast hosted by Barbara Bogaev in which she interviews Sir Jonathan Bate about his book, How the Classics Made Shakespeare, which looks at the original Greek and Roman sources that inspired Shakespeare’s...
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