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Aeschylus’ The Persians by Reading Greek Tragedy Online

A great resource for the reading of ancient Greek plays can be found in the posts tagged at Sententiae Antiquae as Reading Greek Tragedy Online.

The Reading Greek Tragedy Online discussion and reading of the play for The Persians can be found here.

A reading and discussion of Aeschylus’ The Persians (translated by Ian Johnston). Tim Delap, Tabatha Gayle, Tony Jayawardena, Martin K Lewis, and Evelyn Miller perform select scenes, with Joel Christensen (Brandeis University) and Erika L. Weiberg (Duke University) leading the discussion.

Reading Greek Tragedy Online is presented by the Center for Hellenic Studies, the Kosmos Society, and Out of Chaos Theatre.

(from the YouTube page)

Highly recommended, as well as the resources listed at the YouTube page, including A Guide to Aeschylus’s “Persians” by Shelby Brown.

Each week we select scenes from a play, actors and experts from around the world, and put them all together for 90 minutes or so to see what will happen. This process is therapeutic for us; and it helps us think about how tragedy may have had similar functions in the ancient world as well.

From the Sententiae Antiquae page

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