Translating Antiquity Session 5

We will be reading Gonda van Steen, “Enacting History and Patriotic Myth: Aeschylus’ Persians on the Eve of the Greek War of Independence” (2007) and “‘You unleash the tempest of tragedy’: The 1903 Athenian Production of Aeschylus’ Oresteia” (2008); and excerpts from Josephine Quinn, In Search of the Phoenicians (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017).

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Lunch will be provided but please RSVP to Eileen Robinson.