0467NOTGodsGoddesses

0771NOTOrestes_Angelopoulos

Homer Iliad 3 and passim
Apollodorus Libr. Ep.3.1-6.29

Theo Angelopoulos, The Travelling Players (Ὁ Θιασος), 1975, motion picture.

"...the film that made Greek cinema noticed for the first time internationally and which made Theo Angelopoulos a European director..." (V. Karalis, p. 176)

A film based on Aeschylus' Oresteia, which is the structural pretext and hypertext to the whole. The Players are engaged in a travelling production of the Oresteia; but the revolutionary tone is informed throughout by the myth: "I will remain in my rags, as the French Revolution bore me, as you my mother Spain gave birth to me, a dark conspirator."

OGCMA slides are designed by Roger T. Macfarlane for use in Classical Civilization 241 courses at Brigham Young University.
The present resource contains information assembled for The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts, 1300 - 1990's, edited by J. Davidson Reid (Oxford 1994), and it is used with express permission from Oxford University press.
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