At Ohio State U: Tragedy, Translation, Ethnicity, and Imperialism, plus Persians by Aeschylus, translated by Stratos Constantinidis
June Samaras
Persians by Aeschylus, translated by Stratos Constantinidis
Cc: "constant...@osu.edu" <constant...@osu.edu>
Related events at The Ohio State University:
Conference:
Tragedy, Translation, Ethnicity, and Imperialism
A two-day interdisciplinary symposium
At the Blackwell Inn, Columbus
On the campus of The Ohio State University
2110 Tuttle Park Place
November 19-20, 2009
and
Persians by Aeschylus, Translated by Stratos Constantinidis
Staged Readings:
November 8 at 6:00 pm, Drake Performance and Event Center
November 10 at 8:00 pm, Mount Hall Studio Theatre
November 13 at 3:30 pm, Ohio State Faculty Club
November 15 at 6:00 pm, Drake Performance and Event Center
November 19 at 8:00 pm, Mount Hall Studio Theatre
November 20 at 4:30 pm, Drake Performance and Event Center
The Persians are coming to Ohio State this November. This award
winning classical Greek tragedy is the first play in the world to
survive intact from antiquity. It was written by Aeschylus, a veteran
of the Greek-Persian Wars, and was produced by Pericles of Athens in
472 B.C.E. The play reports on the naval battle at Salamis that caused
the single greatest loss of human life in recorded history up to that
time. Or, as Aeschylus put it in Ancient Greek, "Remember this well,
never in one day has such a great number of human beings died." This
play, translated into English by Stratos E. Constantinidis, shows how
the Homeland Security Council of the Persian Empire accepted the news
of the defeat that stopped its colonial expansion.
http://theatre.osu.edu/persians.html
Downloadable conference/production program and flyer:
http://www.mgsa.org/pdfs/PersiansProgram.pdf
and
http://www.mgsa.org/pdfs/PersiansFlyer.pdf
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