Chapter 13 Web Links

Iphigenia and Quest Heroines

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.

http://pressblog.uchicago.edu/2013/04/19/euripides-iphigenia-among-the-taurians-translated-by-anne-carson.html

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.

http://www.charlesmee.org/iphigenia.shtml

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