Chapter 13 Web Links
History: The Heroine’s Quest
• “The Sacrifice of Iphigenia” Website of The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Online Collection. Images from the museum’s collection with label text from curators and scholars.
http://www.metmuseum.org/collection
• “Euripides’ Iphigenia among the Taurians” Website of UChicago Press blog with a snippet of Anne Carson’s contemporary translation of Euripede’s play.
Theory: A Paradigm for the New Heroine
• “Heroism” Website of BBC Radio 4 with Melvyn Bragg’s podcast series In Our Time.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p004y282
Comparison: Rome:Thecla
• From
Jesus to Christ: The First Christians (4:00)
PBS’s FRONTLINE series explores the life and death of Jesus, and the men and women whose belief, conviction, and martyrdom created the religion we know as Christianity.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/watch/
• From the Acts of Paul and Thecla (trans. Jeremiah Jones, 1693-1724)
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/religion/maps/primary/thecla.html
Reception: Ten Years of Iphigenia in New York City
• Playwright Charles L. Mee provides free access to his works, so that they can be staged by amateurs and professionals alike.