Oresteia: Choephoroi (Libation Bearers or Women at the Graveside), Aeschylus

A reading and discussion of Aeschylus' Choephoroi (translation by Oliver Taplin), hosted by Joel Christensen (Brandeis University) with special guests Anna Uhlig (University of California, Davis) and Oliver Taplin (University of Oxford). The cast includes Carlos Bellato, Tamieka Chavis, Tim Delap, Evelyn Miller, Eunice Roberts, and Sara Valentine. Liz Fisher is the guest director.
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More information about the translation is available at www.wwnorton.co.uk/books/9781....
Scene selections:
Most of the play will be performed with some sections cut for time.
Credits:
Orestes - Tim Delap
Electra/Pylades - Evelyn Miler
Clytemnestra - Eunice Roberts
Chorus - Carlos Bellato, Tamieka Chavis, and Sara Valentine
Slave - Sara Valentine
Director - Liz Fisher
Music and Sound Design - Carlos Bellato
More information about the cast and featured speakers is at chs.harvard.edu/CHS/article/d....
Suggested further reading:
1) Marshall, C. W. 2017. Aeschylus: Libation Bearers. London: Bloomsbury.
2) Pontani, Filippomaria. 2007. Shocks, lies, and matricide: Some thoughts on Aeschylus Choephoroi 653-718. Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 103:203-233.
3) Auer, Jannette. 2006. The Aeschylean Electra. Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 46:249-273.