Seneca, Moral Epistle 94.5-6 "In the same way, when some affair occludes the mind and impedes it from seeing the order of duties, it does no good in advising, "live this way with your father and this way with your spouse." Examples like this are useless while error darkens the mind. When the mind is cleared, it…

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09.04.2025

Reading Euripides’ “Herakles” Online – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Five years ago, we live-streamed Euripides' Herakles with Reading Greek Tragedy Online https://twitter.com/AncGreekHero/status/1247963569422991362?s=20 Euripides, Herakles 1256-1257 “I will convince you of this: my life’s not worth living now or even before.” …ἀναπτύξω δέ σοι ἀβίωτον ἡμῖν νῦν τε καὶ πάροιθεν ὄν. Over the past few weeks we have presented readings of Euripides' Helen and Sophocles' Philoktetes (in…

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12.04.2025

The Short Dream and the Sudden Darkness – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Athenaeus, Deipnosophists 14.620c “Chamaeleon claims in his book On Stesichorus that it wasn’t only Homer’s poetry that was accompanied by music but also Archilochus’ and Hesiod’s too. He adds the work of Mimnermus and Phocylides to this as well.” Χαμαιλέων δὲ ἐν τῷ περὶ Στησιχόρου (fr. 28 Wehrli) καὶ μελῳδηθῆναί φησιν οὐ μόνον τὰ Ὁμήρου…

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16.04.2025

Madness and Ecstasy: Reading the Bacchae – SENTENTIAE ANTIQUAE

Five years ago Reading Greek Tragedy Online presented Euripides' Bacchae Reading Euripides' Bacchae https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ARCUdhedr14&feature=emb_logo Over the past few weeks we have presented readings of Euripides’ Helen and Sophocles’ Philoktetes, Euripides' Herakles (in partnership with the Center for Hellenic Studies and the Kosmos Society and Out of Chaos Theatre). Our basic approach is to have actors in isolation read parts with each other online, interspersed…

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