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Posts Tagged ‘theatre’
The Melian Dialogues
Posted in Events, Research in Progress, tagged classical reception, Melian Dialogue, politics, theatre, Thucydides on January 10, 2020| Leave a Comment »
Do What You Must
Posted in Events, Research in Progress, tagged Impact, Melian Dialogue, theatre, Thucydides on October 3, 2019| Leave a Comment »
I have sometimes reflected that my epitaph should probably be ‘It seemed like a good idea at the time’ – especially when, as seems all too likely, I perish from a surfeit of missed deadlines. What I’ve always thought of as a boundless intellectual curiosity, able to get excited by and imagine my own contribution to any number of different projects, could equally well be described as a butterfly mind or a puppy-like lack of discrimination, randomly chasing cars and shiny things. The net result is the same, an excessive ‘to do’ list and regular bursts of apology-writing when the time and energy just run out.
Which isn’t to say that the original ideas weren’t good (more…)
Theatre of War
Posted in Musings, Research in Progress, tagged Margaret Macmillan, Melian Dialogue, Nick Cohen, theatre, Thucydides on July 17, 2018| 2 Comments »
The strong do what they can; the weak suffer what they must…
A familiar line, but context and performance are everything. How do you picture the speaker? A calm, rational, ruthless dictator? A super-villain with a death ray? This is the sort of thing such figures tend to claim – which doesn’t mean that we necessarily accept it at face value. What about a fallen tyrant, a Lear or a Nero, still asserting such arrogance as their world falls apart around them? What if a super-hero was the speaker? (Echoes of Miller’s Batman or Alex Ross’s far superior Kingdom Come). What if it was a woman – whether downtrodden or triumphant? The line becomes less of a statement about the world, and more of a statement about the person speaking… (more…)
Sphinx 