Five years ago, a group of us got together and started reading Greek tragedies with actors and scholars and whoever else appeared. Over the next 3 years years, we aired 65 episodes, covering every tragedy, fragments, some comedies, original work, excerpts from epic, and eventually the Batrakhomuomakhia. We did a podcast about it and an interview…

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01.04.2025

Only Bad Dudes Want Statues in the First Place – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Restore removed statues to return truth and sanity to American history? Plutarch, Precepts of Statecraft 820b (Full text on the Scaife viewer) “Cato, since Rome was then already getting full of statues, would not allow one of himself. He said, “I would rather have people ask why there isn’t a statue of me rather than why…

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02.04.2025

The Strong and the Weak: Reading Some Thucydides For No Particular Reason – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

“These well-known speeches have so many unclear and odd phrases that they barely make sense….” Ipsae illae contiones ita multas habent obscuras abditasque sententias vix ut intellegantur-- Cicero, Orator 9.31 “One could easily count the number of people who are able to understand all of Thucydides, and even these people need to rely on a…

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02.04.2025

Reading (and Performing) Tragedy Online: Episode 2, Philoktetes – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

5 years ago we debuted the 2nd episode of Reading Greek Tragedy Online https://youtu.be/UtvR3TAuvbI A reading and discussion of Sophocles' Philoctetes. Tim Delap, Evelyn Miller, Paul O'Mahony, and Jack Whitam perform select scenes, with Joel Christensen (Brandeis) and Norman Sandridge (Howard) moderating the discussion. Reading Greek Tragedy Online is presented by the Center for Hellenic…

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Back to RGTO: Reading Tragedy Together When Sheltering Alone – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Only Bad Dudes Want Statues in the First Place – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

The Strong and the Weak: Reading Some Thucydides For No Particular Reason – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Reading (and Performing) Tragedy Online: Episode 2, Philoktetes – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

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