Federico Barocci’s portrayal of Aeneas fleeing the burning Troy, from 1598

Enter the world of Aeneas in a powerful new drama

29 January 2014

With powerful themes of anger, hate, devotion, love, death and survival, a new play tells the story of one of the great heroes of the Classical world in the original Ancient Greek and Latin (with English subtitles)

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Christos Tsirogiannis as Achilles and Gail Trimble as Thetis James Willetts

Meet a flawed hero in Greek drama brought alive

15 February 2013

Many of us have seen blockbuster movies based on the stories told in Homer’s epic poems. Now there’s a rare chance to see an accessible dramatisation of part of the Iliad in the original Greek with English surtitles at St John’s College, Cambridge.

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