Episode 313: 'Oedipus Rex' by Sophocles
John J. Miller is joined by James Brandon of Hillsdale College to discuss Sophocles's play, 'Oedipus Rex.'
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Explore "sophocles" with insightful episodes like "Episode 313: 'Oedipus Rex' by Sophocles", "355 - Witchcraft!", "Classical Studies 101 - Sophocles - Ajax", "Choreographing Sophocles" and "Sophocles’ Antigone, with Jennene Margrave" from podcasts like ""The Great Books", "Timesuck with Dan Cummins", "34 Circe Salon -- The Parallax", "Reimagining Ancient Greece and Rome: APGRD Podcast" and "The Classical Academy Podcast"" and more!
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355 - Witchcraft!
Today we do a deep dive on the history of witchcraft. What is witchcraft? How does it differ from organized religion? Why did burning witches ever become a thing, and do witch hunts still occur in the modern world? Why do so many of us have such a strong and irrational fear of people we just don't understand? Going back to some of the earliest written words of Western Civilization, we learn today that a belief in magic and a fear of those who practice it in ways different than we do has fascinated and frightened humans since the very beginning of civilization. Fear of "the other" led not only to a fear of "witchcraft," but to massive witch hunts, torture, and thousands of people being burned alive. What "others" do we witch hunt today? All of this and more on what immediately became one of my favorite episodes.
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Classical Studies 101 - Sophocles - Ajax
Still haunting millennia later, Sophocles' "Ajax" is one of the extraordinary works of world Drama. Join us as we discuss the tragic story of a the Trojan War hero Ajax and the psychological rupture that the bloodshed caused him.
Sean Marlon Newcombe and Dr. Gary Stickel discuss.
Choreographing Sophocles
A podcast with Leo Aylen and David Wiles Leo Aylen, a poet, author, actor, director, broadcaster, and screenwriter, has engaged significantly with classical material over the course of his career. In this podcast episode, he discusses his sell-out production of 'Antigone' at the Greenwich Theatre. His interlocutor is David Wiles, Emeritus Professor of Drama at the University of Exeter, who himself has translated and directed several Greek plays. Their key question: how much do we know about Sophocles' choreography, and what do we do with this knowledge today?
Sophocles’ Antigone, with Jennene Margrave
A foolish king, an unjust law, a young woman grieving a family tragedy: it's the recipe for gut-wrenching, nail-biting drama in Sophocles’ Antigone. This timeless play—written by ancient Greece’s greatest playwright—dives into the depths of the human condition and asks, “is there hope in a tragic world?” Learn more about this masterpiece in our friendly guide to Classical Christian Education.
Sophocles: Greatest of the Greek Dramatists
Sophocles was Greece's most prolific playwright. He wrote 125 plays, of which only seven have survived. He revolutionized theater by introducing a third character as well as scenery. His heroic characters Oedipus and Antigone dramatize free will over fatalism.
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Tragic Form in Kamila Shamsie's Home Fire
Naomi Weiss delivers a public lecture on Kamila Shamsie's award-winning novel, Home Fire Naomi Weiss (Gardner Cowles Associate Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University), talks on Kamila Shamsie’s retelling of Sophocles' Antigone, Home Fire (published by Bloomsbury, 2017; winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction 2018). Streamed live on the APGRD YouTube channel on Monday 15 February 2021, and followed by a live Q&A with the online audience, with questions submitted via YouTube chat and email.
Book at Lunchtime: Sophocles – Antigone and other tragedies
TORCH Book at Lunchtime event on Sophocles: Antigone and other tragedies by Professor Oliver Taplin. With panellists Professor Karen Leeder and Dr Lucy Jackson. Book at Lunchtime is a series of bite-sized book discussions held during term-time, with commentators from a range of disciplines. The events are free to attend and open to all.
Sophocles stands as one of the greatest dramatists of all time, and one of the most influential on artists and thinkers over the centuries. His plays are deeply disturbing and unpredictable, unrelenting and open-ended, refusing to present firm answers to the questions of human existence, or to provide a redemptive justification of the ways of gods to men-or women. These three tragedies portray the extremes of human suffering and emotion, turning the heroic myths into supreme works of poetry and dramatic action.
Professor Oliver Taplin's original and distinctive verse translations of Antigone, Deianeira and Electra convey the vitality of Sophocles' poetry and the vigour of the plays in performance, doing justice to both the sound of the poetry and the theatricality of the tragedies.
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Professor Oliver Taplin is an Emeritus Professor of Classics at Oxford University. His research has focused on the reception of poetry and drama through performance and material culture in both ancient and modern times. He co-founded the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, and has collaborated on a number of high-profile theatre productions. In recent years he has turned his attention to translating Greek Drama as verse to be spoken and performed.
Professor Karen Leeder is a Professor of Modern Languages at Oxford University and a Fellow of New College, Oxford. She has published widely on modern German culture and is a prize-winning translator of contemporary German literature, most recently winning the English PEN award and an American PEN/Heim award for her translation of Ulrike Almut Sandig. She was a TORCH Knowledge Exchange Fellow with the Southbank Centre from 2014-15 and she currently works with MPT, Poet in the City, and The Poetry Society on her project Mediating Modern Poetry.
Dr Lucy Jackson is an Assistant Professor in Classics and Ancient History at Durham University. Her research focuses on ancient Greek and Roman theatre and performance, neo-Latin translations of Greek drama and the reception of classical theatre in the sixteenth century, and translation studies and theory in the ancient and modern worlds. Her most recent publication is The Chorus of Drama in the Fourth Century BCE.
Morality - Sophocles' Oedipus Rex
Sophocles' Oedipus Rex is a Greek tragedy about Oedipus, who is fated to kill his father and marry his mother.
Live Event: Tragedy and Plague - In Conversation with Professor Oliver Taplin and Fiona Shaw CBE
TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. Drama Week Biographies:
Fiona Shaw CBE
Fiona Shaw is an actor and theatre and opera director. She is known for her role as Petunia Dursley in the Harry Potter film series (2001–10), as Marnie Stonebrook in season four of the HBO series True Blood (2011), and as Carolyn Martens in the BBC series Killing Eve (2018–present), for which she won the 2019 BAFTA TV Award for Best Supporting Actress. For her performances in the second seasons of Killing Eve and the comedy-drama Fleabag, Shaw received Primetime Emmy Award nominations for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series and Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series respectively.
Fiona has worked extensively with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre. She won the 1990 Olivier Award for Best Actress for various roles, including Electra, the 1994 Olivier Award for Best Actress for Machinal, and the 1997 Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Solo Performance for The Waste Land. Her other stage work includes playing the title role in Medea in the West End and on Broadway (2001–02). She was awarded an Honorary CBE in 2001. In 2020, she was listed at number 29 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors.
Professor Oliver Taplin, Emeritus Professor of Classics, Magdalen College, Oxford.
Professor Oliver Taplin is a fellow of Magdalen College and Professor of Classical Languages and Literature at the University of Oxford. Professor Taplin's main teaching has been in all aspects of ancient Greek epic, tragedy and comedy: Classics, Classics (and Joint Honours), Classics and English, Classics and Modern Languages, Classics with Oriental Studies at Oxford University.
Oliver's primary focus as a scholar is on Greek drama, especially from the viewpoint of staging and performance. His first book was The Stagecraft of Aeschylus, in which he dealt with the entrances and exits of characters in Aeschylus's plays. Subsequent books, including Comic Angels (1993) and Pots and Plays (2007) examine vase paintings as evidence for the performance of tragedy and comedy. In 1996, together with Edith Hall, he set up the APGRD (Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama). It is devoted to the international production and reception of ancient plays since the Renaissance. He has also worked with productions in the theatre, including The Oresteia at the National Theatre (1980–81), The Thebans at the RSC (1991–92), and The Oresteia at the National Theatre (1999–2000). Apart from Greek drama, his chief area of interest was in Homer.
Oliver retired as Tutor in Classics at Magdalen College, Oxford in 2008. The same year, Oxford University Press published Performance, Iconography, Reception: Studies in Honour of Oliver Taplin, edited by Martin Revermann and Peter Wilson.
Further related subjects include vase-painting and theatre; performance studies; reception of ancient literature in modern poetry; practical translation workshops. Currently he is working on a broad-brush book on Greek Tragedy, including a critique of Aristotle’s Poetics.
Publications include:
The Stagecraft of Aeschylus (Oxford 1977, reissued as a paperback 1989).
Greek Tragedy in Action (London and Berkeley 1978; revised edition 1985); also translated into Greek, Japanese and Polish.
Greek Fire (London 1990); also translated into Dutch, Portuguese, French, German and Greek.
Homeric Soundings. The Shaping of the Iliad (Oxford 1992, reprinted in paperback, 1994).
Comic Angels – and other approaches to Greek drama through vase-painting (Oxford 1993, reprinted in paperback, 1994).
Pots and Plays. Interactions between Tragedy and Greek Vase-painting of the Fourth Century BC (Getty Museum Publications, Los Angeles, 2007)
Sophocles Oedipus the King and other tragedies (Oxford World’s Classics, 2016)
Aeschylus The Oresteia (Norton, New York, 2018)
His new book, Sophocles' Antigone and Other Tragedies was published in September 2020.
Episode 45: The Place Where the Three Roads Meet, Part I
In this episode, Ellen analyzes sixteen lines from Sophocles' play Oedipus Rex, and wonders if the pagans understood the nature of violence better than we do.
0:00 Intro
2:08 Background to the play
5:03 Oedipus's narration of what happened at the place where three roads meet
20:41 Oedipus's later claim of self-defense
24:59 Key points of reflection
30:03 Two personal anecdotes
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Now’s the Time to Hone Your Moral Decision-Making Skills
Dilemmas are rarely black-and-white. Here's what fictional characters can teach us about today’s real-world quandaries.
Books I Finished in March - Part 2 Capsule Reviews
- Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead By: Jim Mattis
- The Lessons of History By: Will and Ariel Durant
- The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes By: Donald D. Hoffman
- Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World By: Laura Spinney
- Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives By: David Eagleman
- Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy By: Francis Fukuyama
- Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, The Trackers By: Sophocles
EP 47 - ETL Presents "Philoctetes"
The English Theatre Leipzig Company is presenting Sophocles' "Philoctetes" this March and Director Abigail Akavia joins the podcast along with stars Em Wessel and Felix Kerkhoff.
A famed archer, Philoctetes, set out against Troy with Achilles and the other Greek heroes but was bit on the foot by a snake along the way. The wound festered and stank, and Philoctetes screamed in pain so hideously that the fleet abandoned him on Lemnos, a desert island. Philoctetes survived on whatever he could shoot with his magical bow, the one he inherited from his friend Heracles.
Ten years later, the Greeks learn through prophecy that Philoctetes and his bow are needed against Troy, and a plot is hatched to get him back.
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CIP 022. Spurn the Most Treacherous of Emotions, Beware the Ambitions of the Beast: The Hubris of Emperor Nero, Rome’s Original Antichrist
Nero stands out as one of the most monstrous, and universally hated emperors in the long history of the Roman empire. And, yet, the reign of the once popular emperor began in relative peace. What allowed for such a dramatic transformation? Were there any early signs of what barbaric slaughtering was to come? In this episode of the Classic Influence Podcast, we’ll travel back to ancient Rome and watch as Nero, flooded with unquenchable hubris, burns his own ambitions to the ground. Drawing on the wisdom of ancient Greece, celebrated theologians, and modern presidents, this episode explores why hubris is at the dead center of the most toxic of human emotions. For those with enough foresight and social intelligence to appreciate just how hazardous hubris can be—the key lesson from Nero’s life—this episode also reveals a few key tips for keeping a grip on this most treacherous of emotional states.
APGRD/TORCH panel discussion of 'We Are Not Princesses'
Nur Laiq (TORCH Global South Visiting Fellow), Hal Scardino (producer) and Fiona Macintosh (APGRD) discuss We Are Not Princesses, a documentary about Syrian women living as refugees in Beirut telling their stories through the ancient Greek play, Antigone.
CIP 017. Leverage the Paradox of Self-Reliance: General George Washington Wins the War By First Building Belief and Rapport
Surveying the disciplined strategy, transforming leadership, and dogged determination of General George Washington during the American Revolutionary War, this episode of the Classic Influence Podcast reveals three key lessons we can learn from Washington’s effective prosecution of the war in the years leading up to the alliance with France. Looking back to the wisdom of the ancient Greeks, echoed in the insights of modern social science, this episode also reveals the power of the paradox of self-reliance. Finally, illustrating how this theme surfaces repeatedly throughout history—beginning at least as far back as classical Roman mythology—you will develop a deeper understanding and appreciation for why self-reliance is so fundamental to your ultimate success.
Antigone
by Sophocles, Paul Woodruff (Translator)
This month, Lisa is joined by Carla Della Gatta and Richard Green to discuss the timeless play by Sophocles: Antigone.
The play has clear connections to political struggles we face thousands of years later. The struggle between law and norm, the struggle to define what the state can control, and more. Listen as our three scholars discuss the necessity of reading Antigone today.
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Antigonick
After King Kreon condemns her brother, a traitor, to rot on the battlefield, Antigone defies him, risking her own life, to give her brother a proper burial. This week, we present poet Anne Carson’s experimental translation of Sophocles’ play, an adaptation that incorporates within it 2,500 years of the play’s reception history, its performances (from Brecht to Vichy France), its interpretations (from Hegel to Judith Butler), and starring artist Margaux Williamson as Antigone.
Many thanks to Anne Carson, Ella Haselswerdt, Katie Fleming, Hannah Silverblank, New Directions Books, and Michael Barron.
Produced by Angela Shackel
Image credit: Braden Labonté
Worst Baby Mammas and Daddies in Lit
Sparky Sweets PhD is leavin the crib as he counts down the worst baby mammas and daddies in literature. Find out which parents are not worth taking to court with Thug Notes: Get Lit.
Thug Notes: GET LIT features literary OG Sparky Sweets PhD, your street-smart guide through the best stuff ever written. In each episode, he counts down the greatest works in the lit game with a fresh perspective – blending top-shelf literature with street certified insights.