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A Wrath That Remembers: A Feminist Companion To Aeschylus' Agamemnon, Mary Iris Allison

Scripps Senior Theses

This project is a feminist translation and companion to Aeschylus' Agamemnon, which includes detailed footnotes and references to secondary authors that provide a feminist reading of the text.

The Role Of Principles And Personal Relationships In Greek Tragedy And Epic, Ellen Pariser

Honors Program Theses and Projects

Understanding motivations are vital for understanding any characters, especially ones so far removed from contemporary society. Through this paper I will attempt to explore the tug between principles and close personal relationships that is often central to ancient texts and manifests so prevalently in the genres of tragedy and epic.

Death Of A Hero: A Translation Of Sophocles' Ajax, Gabriel Martin Doyle

Senior Projects Spring 2020

This project consists of a translation of the first half of Sophocles' tragic play Ajax from Ancient Greek into English. Additionally, the project includes a brief introduction and Bibliography

Greek Tragedy At Marion Correctional: An Exploration Of Directing Theatre In Prison, Elise G. Woods

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Projects

In this project, I describe and analyze forces of freedom and coercion through the process of directing Trojan Women by Euripides at Marion Correctional Institution. This analysis documents each stage of the theatrical process—from project proposal to final performance and discussion—through ethnographic, arts-based research using personal observations, primary accounts from performers and audience members, and secondary sources. By exploring the experience of directing Trojan Women in the prison setting, I analyze forces of coercion and freedom in both theatre-making practices and prison. As a result, I assert the uniquely positive aspects and productive utilization's of coercion through theatre in a …

Ajax By Sophocles: A New Performance Translation, Maura Giles-Watson

English: Faculty Scholarship

AJAX

by Sophokles

A new performance translation by Maura Giles-Watson

Directed by Ray Chambers and Lisa Berger

Original Cast

2017 Production

Old Globe/USD Shiley Graduate Theatre Program

Athena / Chorus 9: Nora Carroll

Odysseus / Chorus 10: Talley Beth Gale

Ajax: Lorenzo Landini

Chorus Leader 1: Samantha Sutliff

Chorus Leader 2: Sam Avishay

Chorus Leader 3: Larica Schnell

Chorus 4: Suzelle Palacios

Tekmessa: Christina Okolo

Angelos / Chorus 8: Jose Martinez

Teucer / Chorus 5: Renardo Pringle Jr.

Menelaus / Chorus 6: Daniel Joeck

Agamemnon / Chorus 7: Ajinkya Desai

Nicole Ries, Stage Manager

Kate Morton, Assistant Stage Manager

Maura …

Dignity In Homer And Classical Greece, Patrice Rankine

Classical Studies Faculty Publications

Woven into the distress of Homeric epic, which often laments the terrors of war, the violence of passion, and the desperation of life, are records of ancient customs that hint at a deep respect for culture and human worth. To take but one example, recall Hector's refusal to take wine from his mother when he is bloody from battle. This moment is apt to strike modern readers as trivial. In fact, it reifies important ancient distinctions between war and peace, home and battlefield, and the equally ancient sentiment that to everything, there is a season.

Review Of "Dramatic Action In Greek Tragedy And Noh: Reading With And Beyond Aristotle" By Mae J. Smethurst, Judy Halebsky

Judy Halebsky

Mae J. Smethurst’s scholarship offers an illuminating examination of aspects of Japanese nō through Aristotle’s Poetics. Smethurst focuses on genzai or realistic nō alongside tragedies by Sophocles and Euripides that Aristotle favored. Published by Lexington Books, this text is part of the series Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches curated in partnership with Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies.

The Sound Design Of Antigone, Luke Jacob Walchuk

All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects

This document is a project submitted in partial fulfillment of the Master of Fine Arts degree in theatre. It provides an account of author Luke Walchuk’s process in creating and implementing the sound design for Minnesota State University, Mankato’s production of Antigone in January and February of 2016. The paper gives a chronological overview of the designer’s process in four chapters: an early production analysis, a historical and critical perspective, a process journal, and a post-production analysis. A fifth chapter provides a process development analysis of the designer’s career as a student of theatre. Appendices featuring production paperwork and other …

Performing Femininity: Gender In Ancient Greek Myth, Katherine Anne Gabriel

Senior Projects Spring 2016

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Languages and Literature of Bard College

Translation And The Canon Of Greek Tragedy In Chinese Literature, Rongnü Chen, Lingling Zhao

CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture

In their article "Translation and the Canon of Greek Tragedy in Chinese Literature" Rongnü Chen and Lingling Zhao discuss when and how ancient Greek drama were introduced and merged into Chinese literature. Since Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound was first translated into Chinese and published in 1932 up to now, it has been translated eight times in China from 1932 to 2013. Starting from the Chinese translations and reception of Prometheus Bound, Chen and Zhao explore why so many translators have chosen to translate it in the past eighty years. Chen and Zhao also discuss how these translating activities advanced the …

Review Of "Dramatic Action In Greek Tragedy And Noh: Reading With And Beyond Aristotle" By Mae J. Smethurst, Judy Halebsky

Collected Faculty and Staff Scholarship

Mae J. Smethurst’s scholarship offers an illuminating examination of aspects of Japanese nō through Aristotle’s Poetics. Smethurst focuses on genzai or realistic nō alongside tragedies by Sophocles and Euripides that Aristotle favored. Published by Lexington Books, this text is part of the series Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches curated in partnership with Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies.

Manuscripts, Editors And Sophocles, Philoctetes, Marianina Demetri Olcott

Faculty Publications

The thesis of the article may be briefly summarized as follows: Lines 671-673 in all of our ancient MSS are consistently assigned to Philoctetes. Modern editors however, following in the footsteps of nineteenth century scholars regularly assign these lines change in line assignment was made on purely subjective grounds for no reason that can be substantiated by the dramatic situation therefore, the article concludes that in the absence of any sound reasons for the alteration we should return to the readings of the major manuscripts and the earliest editions of the play.

Manuscripts, Editors And Sophocles, Philoctetes, Marianina Demetri Olcott

Marianina Demetri Olcott

The thesis of the article may be briefly summarized as follows: Lines 671-673 in all of our ancient MSS are consistently assigned to Philoctetes. Modern editors however, following in the footsteps of nineteenth century scholars regularly assign these lines change in line assignment was made on purely subjective grounds for no reason that can be substantiated by the dramatic situation therefore, the article concludes that in the absence of any sound reasons for the alteration we should return to the readings of the major manuscripts and the earliest editions of the play.

Words In Blood, Like Flowers: Philosophy And Poetry, Music And Eros In Hölderlin, Nietzsche, And Heidegger, Babette Babich

Babette Babich

No abstract provided.

Words In Blood, Like Flowers: Philosophy And Poetry, Music And Eros In Hölderlin, Nietzsche, And Heidegger, Babette Babich

Articles and Chapters in Academic Book Collections

No abstract provided.

Euripides' Second Thoughts, Emily A. Mcdermott

Classics Faculty Publication Series

Euripides' extant Hippolytus was a rare "re-production" of an earlier play on the same mythic episode. The play contains a series of metadramatic comments on its partial interchange of Phaedra's and the Nurse's original roles. The Nurse's appearance in the "Stephanias" as seducer of a virtuous Phaedra is presented as a "change of mind." Her "second thoughts" (to corrupt, rather than dissuade Phaedra) mirror the playwright's decision to amend a shameless Phaedra's character by, conversely, degenerating the Nurse's. His covert comments on this strategy of reversal underline the oddity of his decision to correct his first try at the story.

Euripides' Second Thoughts, Emily A. Mcdermott

Emily A. McDermott

Euripides' extant Hippolytus was a rare "re-production" of an earlier play on the same mythic episode. The play contains a series of metadramatic comments on its partial interchange of Phaedra's and the Nurse's original roles. The Nurse's appearance in the "Stephanias" as seducer of a virtuous Phaedra is presented as a "change of mind." Her "second thoughts" (to corrupt, rather than dissuade Phaedra) mirror the playwright's decision to amend a shameless Phaedra's character by, conversely, degenerating the Nurse's. His covert comments on this strategy of reversal underline the oddity of his decision to correct his first try at the story.

Medea Line 37: A Note, Emily A. Mcdermott

Classics Faculty Publication Series

A recent article by R. P. Winnington-Ingram elucidates Euripides' penchant for clever "jokes" at the expense of the literary traditions or the stage conventions within which he worked. While Winnington-Ingram voices some trepidation that other critics may find his identification of such levity in a great tragedian "repugnant or even abhorrent," his assessment of these witticisms, which (in a play on the word's current and etymological meanings) he dubs "sophisticated," has offered insight into Euripides' artistry and inspired further study along similar lines, notably by Geoffrey Amott.

A keynote of the examples of cleverness noted by these scholars is their …

Medea Line 37: A Note, Emily A. Mcdermott

Emily A. McDermott

No abstract provided.

Metre And Translation In Pound's Women Of Trachis, Marianina Demetri Olcott

Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Metre And Translation In Pound's Women Of Trachis, Marianina Demetri Olcott

Marianina Demetri Olcott

No abstract provided.