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Ancient Greece Today

Ancient Greece Today

Written by: Naomi Weiss
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Hosted by Naomi Weiss (Professor of the Classics, Harvard University), this podcast brings together scholars and artists to explore the ancient Greek world and how it is used and reimagined in the present day. Education Philosophy Social Sciences
Episodes
  • Episode 8: Trojan Women

    Episode 8: Trojan Women
    May 29 2026
    Long considered the oldest anti-war play, Euripides’ Trojan Women is a devastating portrayal of the suffering of war’s female victims. It is also about female relationships and forms of agency, as well as the power of artistic innovation in the face of brutality and loss. Naomi discusses this strange and beautiful play with Professor Ella Haselswerdt (University of California, Los Angeles) and Rosanna Bruno (artist and illustrator of Euripides’ Trojan Women: A Comic).
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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • Episode 7: Bacchae

    Episode 7: Bacchae
    May 22 2026
    In this episode, we talk about Euripides’ Bacchae. Dr. Lucy Jackson (Durham University) joins Naomi to explore the theatricality of this play about Dionysus, the questions it raises about gender, and how it has been reimagined in modern productions. Professor Monica Youn (University of California, Irvine) gives a reading of her poem “Study of Two Figures, Agave/Pentheus” from the collection From From (2023) and talks with Naomi about how this work traces constructions of Asianness, ancient and modern.
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    1 hr and 9 mins
  • Episode 6: Medea

    Episode 6: Medea
    May 14 2026
    In this episode, Naomi talks to Professor Al Duncan (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) about Euripides’ Medea as a revenge drama, Medea's liminality, and the particular performance opportunities presented by this extraordinary tragedy. Then she interviews Rhodessa Jones, founder and director of The Medea Project: Theater for Incarcerated Women, about Medea and “women on the edge.”
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    59 mins
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