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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...
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...
Podcast. Discussion held at Birkbeck College, University of London 30 June 2015. The dramatic developments in Greece culminate on June 30 when the loan to Greece and the austerity conditions attached to it...
Dr Yiannis Kitromilides, an Associate Member of the Cambridge Centre for Economic and Public Policy, Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge, talks about the the position of Greece within the...
For the first time in Greece a documentary produced by the audience. DEBTOCRACY seeks the causes of the debt crisis and proposes solutions, hidden by the government and the dominant media. The documentary...
Historian Bettany Hughes embarks on an epic journey across the eastern Mediterranean to disentangle myth from reality and find out the truth about Helen of Troy, the most beautiful woman on earth. (102 minutes)
This series chronicles the rise and fall of one of the most extreme civilisations the world has ever seen. Historian Bettany Hughes reveals the secrets and complexities of Spartan life. (141 minutes)
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...
Video Recording of a live online lecture by Earl Showerman. it is accompanied by performances from Euripedes and Shakespeare by Sir Mark Rylance and Annabel Leventon. The lecture and the performances were...
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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