Events

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Antigone

20 April 2022, 3:00 pm ET

Reading Greek Tragedy Online Season 4 Episode 2 On Wednesday April 20th at 3:00pm EDT, Reading Greek Tragedy returns with Sophocles’s Antigone. Directed by Argyris Xafis, with host Joel Christensen, and special guest, Angeliki Tzanetou. Translators: Nikos Panagiotopoulos and Ian Johnston Featured Performers Nikos Hatzopoulos – KreonDimitra Vlagopoulou – AntigoneAsimina Anastasopoulou – Ismine, ChorusArgyris Xafis – Aimon, Messenger(guard), Chorus This event will be streamed to Youtube. Read more

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Medical Ethics: From Antiquity to the Current Pandemic

28 April 2022, 12:00 pm ET

What are the main ethical dilemmas faced by the medical profession today? And how do advances in technology affect the ethics of medical care? We will examine these questions with the help of specialists in the field of medicine and bioethics. Read more

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Ellen McLaughlin

15 April 2022, 11:00 am ET

Ellen will speak specifically about the process of working with a fragment of Euripides’ Protesilaus. Read more

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The Battle of Plataea 2.5K

7 April 2022

Taking place 2500 years after the battle of Plataea, this interdisciplinary conference on the battle brings together researchers to examine key problems connected to the battle, its multiple contexts, and its ancient and modern reverberations. Read more

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Philoctetes

30 March 2022, 3:00 pm ET

Reading Greek Tragedy returns with Sophocles Philoctetes. This event will be streamed to Youtube and broadcast live from Hilles Cinema at Harvard University. If you are on campus, join us! Read more

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Sandra Voulgari & Andriana Papanicolaou

1 April 2022, 11:00 am ET

Sandra Voulgari and Andriana Papanicolaou, 21st century dancers study, perform and teach Dances of Isadora Duncan and the Ruby Ginner method. Read more

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Visual Mythology Ancient and Modern: The Case of Narcissus

1 April 2022, 1:00 pm ET

A participatory discussion with Harvard Classics graduate students Sarah Eisen and Nate Herter. What does mythology express about our innermost nature? When 20th century artists of the Surrealist movement approached antiquity, they did so with this question in mind. Read more

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Prometheus Bound – Aeschylus

1 June 2022, 3:00 pm ET

On Wednesday June 1 at 3:00pm EST, Reading Greek Tragedy returns with Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound. Read more

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Modern Odysseys

10 March 2022, 5:00 pm ET

A discussion of Michelle Zerba’s book Modern Odysseys: Cavafy, Woolf, Césaire and a Poetics of Indirection, moderated by Richard Armstrong and Michelle Zerba. Read more

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The Long Italian Philhellenism

23 February 2022, 12:00 pm ET

Within the pan-European phenomenon called Philhellenism, Italy, due to its history, geographical location, and political status, was prominent in a different way – it appears that the Greek phenomenon was perhaps more deeply felt and rooted. Read more