This week Dave and Jeff wade into the deep waters of Greek Tragedy for the first time with a two-part look at Euripides’ Alcestis. Even devotees of tragedy may not be familiar with this one! But before we get there we poke around at a few questions: why did tragedy arise in Athens? Why did actors wear masks, and what's a deus ex machina? Then it’s on to Euripides himself—a poet well ahead of his time and the man the Athenians loved to hate—and his macabre marital masterpiece Alcestis. Apollo and Thanatos (NOT the purple guy) trade rap-battle insults while hubby Admetus behaves so insufferably maybe you’d die to get away from him too!
Antipasto! Top 9 Reasons to Study Greek and Latin - Episode 35
“Take a Gander at this Dream I Had…” Homer’s Odyssey, Part 9 (Books 18-19) - Episode 34
Ad Navseam Episode 33: “Reunited and it Feels so Good”--Homer’s Odyssey, Part 9 (Books 15-17)
Ad Navseam Episode 32: Swined and Dined—Homer’s Odyssey, part 8 (Books 12-14)
Ad Navseam Episode 31: Mortal Republic, How Rome Fell into Tyranny - a Conversation with Dr. Ed Watts of UC San Diego
Ad Navseam Episode 30: More Pain in the Nekuia—Odysseus in the Underworld, Part 2 (Homer’s Odyssey, part 7)
Ad Navseam Episode 29: A Pain in the Nekuia—Odysseus in the Underworld, Part 1 (Book 11)
Ad Navseam Episode 28: The Well-Trained Mind: A Conversation with Susan Wise Bauer
Ad Navseam Episode 27: “HOLY MOLY!” — Homer’s Odyssey, part 5 (Book 10)
Ad Navseam Episode 26: “It’s all Fun and Games Till Someone Pokes an Eye Out” - Homer’s Odyssey, Part 4 (Book 9)
Ad Navseam Episode 25: Schmidt-en with the Classics
Ad Navseam Episode 24: "A Toast to the Host who can Boast the Most Roast” — Homer’s Odyssey, Part 3 (Books 5-8)
Ad Navseam Episode 23: Down on the Pharmaka—Homer’s Odyssey, Part 2
Ad Navseam Episode 22: When will Dad be Home? - Homer's Odyssey, Part 1
Ad Navseam Episode 21: Cowboy Up, Verg! Eclogue One and the Origins of Augustan Literature
Ad Navseam Episode 20: A Lion at the Gates - The Battle of Thermopylae, Part 2
Ad Navseam Episode 19: A Lion at the Gates - The Battle of Thermopylae, Part 1
Ad Navseam Episode 18: Cranks for the Memories – William Perkins, Alexander Dicson, and the Ars Memoriae
Ad Navseam Episode 17: “Honey, I’m Home!”—Alcestis, Part 2
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