Places and Projects of Interest
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Greek and Roman Galleries: "The 2007 opening of the Hellenistic, Etruscan, and Roman galleries—an entire wing housing over 5,300 objects in more than 30,000 square feet—completed the reconstruction and reinstallation of the permanent galleries of Greek and Roman art. The newest galleries present Hellenistic art and its legacy alongside those of Southern Italy and Etruria." http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/new-installations/greek-and-roman-galleries
The Philoctetes Project: “We think these plays were a way to reintegrate soldiers back into society.”
This link leads to a New York Times article about a group of actors who do staged readings of Sophocles' plays Philoctetes and Ajax for veterans and military audiences:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/nyregion/19nyc.html?n=Top/Reference/Times Topics/Subjects/T/Theater&_r=0&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1381217204-yqvUBYxD8/UpYOihXjctfQ
The Athens and Epidaurus Festival: To see Greek tragedy performed in its original setting, you can plan a trip to Greece in the summer months, or you can simply visit the website and view clips of recent productions at the Festival. This link leads to a clip from the 2013 production of Euripides' Trojan Women:
http://www.greekfestival.gr/en/gallery
The Archive for the Performance of Greek and Roman Drama (APGRD): This Oxford University site, run by British researchers Fiona Macintosh and Edith Hall, is an "international centre for research into performances of Greek and Roman drama worldwide, from antiquity to the present, on stage, screen and radio, in opera and dance." It contains much valuable information on the performance of Greek plays over the centuries. http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/about-us
The American School of Classical Studies at Athens. http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/: The American School of Classical Studies at Athens was founded in 1881 and seeks to advance the knowledge of Greece in all periods as well as other classical eras. One of the primary responsibilities of this school is to “support the investigation, preservation, and presentation of Greece’s cultural heritage.”
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Greek and Roman Galleries: "The 2007 opening of the Hellenistic, Etruscan, and Roman galleries—an entire wing housing over 5,300 objects in more than 30,000 square feet—completed the reconstruction and reinstallation of the permanent galleries of Greek and Roman art. The newest galleries present Hellenistic art and its legacy alongside those of Southern Italy and Etruria." http://www.metmuseum.org/collections/new-installations/greek-and-roman-galleries
The Philoctetes Project: “We think these plays were a way to reintegrate soldiers back into society.”
This link leads to a New York Times article about a group of actors who do staged readings of Sophocles' plays Philoctetes and Ajax for veterans and military audiences:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/19/nyregion/19nyc.html?n=Top/Reference/Times Topics/Subjects/T/Theater&_r=0&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1381217204-yqvUBYxD8/UpYOihXjctfQ
The Athens and Epidaurus Festival: To see Greek tragedy performed in its original setting, you can plan a trip to Greece in the summer months, or you can simply visit the website and view clips of recent productions at the Festival. This link leads to a clip from the 2013 production of Euripides' Trojan Women:
http://www.greekfestival.gr/en/gallery
The Archive for the Performance of Greek and Roman Drama (APGRD): This Oxford University site, run by British researchers Fiona Macintosh and Edith Hall, is an "international centre for research into performances of Greek and Roman drama worldwide, from antiquity to the present, on stage, screen and radio, in opera and dance." It contains much valuable information on the performance of Greek plays over the centuries. http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/about-us
The American School of Classical Studies at Athens. http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/: The American School of Classical Studies at Athens was founded in 1881 and seeks to advance the knowledge of Greece in all periods as well as other classical eras. One of the primary responsibilities of this school is to “support the investigation, preservation, and presentation of Greece’s cultural heritage.”
