with Prof. Naomi Weiss
A Center for Hellenic Studies Podcast
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with Prof. Naomi Weiss
A Center for Hellenic Studies Podcast
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In this episode, we discuss Sophocles’ Antigone, from classical Athens to 21st-century Mexico. Dr. Andrés Carrete (Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University) joins Naomi to explore different frameworks, ancient and modern, for understanding this incredibly influential play. Then they talk to two Mexican playwrights, David Gaitán and Perla de la Rosa, who have both produced their own versions of Antigone as forms of political theater.
In this episode, we turn to Sophocles’ Oedipus the King. Dr. Lyndsay Coo (University of Bristol) joins Naomi to discuss the play’s plot, its riddles, its questioning of human knowledge, and the role of the gods in a tragedy where they may at first seem absent. Janet Eilber, Artistic Director of the Martha Graham Dance Company, then talks about Graham’s Night Journey (1947), which tells Oedipus' story through the body of Jocasta, his wife and sister.
What was Greek tragedy and what is it today? In this episode, Naomi discusses the forms and ideas of Greek tragedy, from classical Athens to 20th-century Cuba, with Rosa Andújar (Barnard College, Columbia University) and Josh Billings (Princeton University).