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Tuesday, October 4, 2005
Aristophanes is making a significant reappearance on the American cultural scene, from the 2003 worldwide "Lysistrata Project" to promote world peace to Sondheim's Frogs and Adamo's spring 2006 Lysistrata at New York's City Opera, though he has enjoyed remarkable popularity in Greece since the nineteenth century. The panel will examine the performance of Aristophanes in theater and politics of the fifth century b.c., his continuing relevance to modern Greece, and the special role that Lysistrata has played in his renewed popularity in the contemporary world. The panel will include a scene from Ellen McLaughlin's adaptation of Lysistrata which was performed at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Panelists
Helene Foley
Professor of Classics, Barnard College,
Columbia University
"Visualizing Greek Comedy on the Attic Stage"
Josiah Ober
David Magie Professor of Classics and Professor of Human Values, Princeton University
"Comedy, Democracy, and Political Criticism as a Vocation"
Gonda Van Steen
Associate Professor of Classics and
Modern Greek, University of Arizona
"Aristophanes in Twentieth-Century Greece"
Ellen McLaughlin
actor and playwright
and Rinde Eckert