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The World of the Hero

Beliefs & Ideas

Teachers

General Resources

The resources below are useful for many different areas of the component and have not been assigned to specific topics.

Textual Sources

Aristotle’s Poetics.

Websites

The archaeological site of Thorikos has been excavated by the Belgian School at Athens. Find out more about their work here.

This website from St Andrew's University seeks to promote the study of Greek drama in schools.

Videos

Attending the Theatre in Athens (Open University)

Greek Theatre (National Theatre)
A series of YouTube videos.

Aristophanes' Frogs (Cambridge Greek Plays)
A modern performance of the play in Greek, but with subtitles available.

Greece: The Greatest Show on Earth (BBC Documentary)
A three-part documentary series exploring the ancient theatre:

Part 1: Democrats
Part 2: Kings
Part 3: Romans

A blog and set of short videos about bringing drama to the Classical Civilisation classroom.

Podcasts

BBC Radio 4 In Our Time programmes that are of interest for our period:

Tragedy

The Oresteia

Aristotle's Poetics

Comedy in Ancient Greek Theatre

Others

Simon Armitage on Greek Tragedy (BBC Radio 4 Start the Week)