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seeingspectacles
Exploring Roman Spectacle from Chariot Racing to Gladiators
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Prometheus Unbound Ep 5: Medea of Osaka
After a longish interlude, Prometheus Unbound is back with a short episode on the Japanese reception of Euripides’s Medea, featuring Prof. Christina Laffin, and the artistic directors of the Yayoi Theatre Movement, Yayoi Hirano and Peter Hall. The show is on November 7th-9th, 2013 in Vancouver.…
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(Special Episode) Orpheus in the Agora
Were the ancients on to something about living the good life? This episode features a roundtable discussion with staff writers from the In the Agora site about two major Hellenistic schools of philosophy and the Orphic mystery cult to tackle the question of whether or not we could live our lives…
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Prometheus Unbound Ep 3: Madmen and Ninja Turtles
http://seeingspectacles.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/cultural-touchstones-and-lucan.m4a Madmen and Ninja Turtles: Cultural Touchstones and Lucan. Today on the podcast, we cover the formation of national and individual identity through cultural touchstones. Commercials from Concerned Children’s...
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Prometheus Unbound Ep 2: Lucan, Epic, and 80s Action Movies
Prometheus Unbound Ep 2 Episode 2 End Notes: For intro mix sources see episode 1 notes. The ending clip is from The Giant of Marathon. Dir. Jacques Tourneur. Galatea Film. 1959. (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052604/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1) Selections from Harry Hanrahan’s very funny “160 Greatest Arnold...
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Prometheus Bound Ep 1: Shakespeare, Elizabeth Alexander, and Nero Explain Lucan’s Pharsalia!
Christian Brady’s podcast series “Prometheus Unbound,” featuring Lucan’s Pharsalia as a gateway into the Roman Empire. We’ll cover everything from political partisanship, war lit, family feuds of epic proportions, intertextuality, the macabre, remakes of Golden Age Latin epics, political…
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Exploring Roman Spectacle from Chariot Racing to Gladiators
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