 Episode 1 |
The Bacchae by Euripides
introduced by Zina Giannopoulou Pentheus, the excessively rational king of Thebes, dies a savage death at the hands of the followers of Dionysus, god of irrationality. . |
| Episode 2 |
Philoctetes by Sophocles
introduced by Jane O. Newman Philoctetes, by Sophocles, is frequently taught and performed in the context of wartime trauma and its afterlives in the hearts and minds of veterans.
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 Abel García Voice Actor, Philoctetes |
Produced by Carrie Noland, Director of the International Center for Writing and Translation, with support from Julia Lupton, Director of Illuminations
