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Prometheus Unbound Ep 5: Medea of Osaka

http://seeingspectacles.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/ep-5-medea-of-osaka.mp3 After a longish interlude, Prometheus Unbound is back with a short episode on the Japanese reception of Euripides’s Medea, featuring Prof. Christina Laffin, and the artistic directors of the Yayoi Theatre Movement, Yayoi Hirano and Peter Hall. The show is on November 7th-9th, 2013 in Vancouver. Go check it out if you can!...

Nov 05, 2013

(Special Episode) Orpheus in the Agora

http://seeingspectacles.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/special-episode-orpheus-in-the-agora.mp3 Were the ancients on to something about living the good life? This episode features a roundtable discussion with staff writers from the In the Agora site about two major Hellenistic schools of philosophy and the Orphic mystery cult to tackle the question of whether or not we could live our lives in accordance with the principles of an ancient belief system....

Aug 25, 2013

Prometheus Unbound Ep 3: Madmen and Ninja Turtles

http://seeingspectacles.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/cultural-touchstones-and-lucan.m4a Madmen and Ninja Turtles: Cultural Touchstones and Lucan. Today on the podcast, we cover the formation of national and individual identity through cultural touchstones. Commercials from Concerned Children’s Advertisers and Canadian Heritage Minutes help to deconstruct the phenomena of shared moments of cultural memory today, while helping us to consider the ways in which spectacular Neronian literature such as...

Jun 24, 2013

Prometheus Unbound Ep 2: Lucan, Epic, and 80s Action Movies

http://seeingspectacles.files.wordpress.com/2013/05/final-cut-prometheus-unbound-genre-brady.mp3 Prometheus Unbound Ep 2 Episode 2 End Notes: For intro mix sources see episode 1 notes. The ending clip is from The Giant of Marathon . Dir. Jacques Tourneur. Galatea Film. 1959. ( http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052604/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 ) Selections from Harry Hanrahan’s very funny “160 Greatest Arnold Schwarzenegger quotes” mashup. (www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDxn0Xfqkgw) The distinctive voices of the 80s...

May 17, 2013

Prometheus Bound Ep 1: Shakespeare, Elizabeth Alexander, and Nero Explain Lucan’s Pharsalia!

http://seeingspectacles.files.wordpress.com/2013/03/intro-prometheus-bound-ep-1.mp3 Christian Brady’s podcast series “Prometheus Unbound,” featuring Lucan’s Pharsalia as a gateway into the Roman Empire. We’ll cover everything from political partisanship, war lit, family feuds of epic proportions, intertextuality, the macabre, remakes of Golden Age Latin epics, political resistance through art, atheism and much, much more! All while looking at ways the modern world can help inform us about what w...

May 15, 2013

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