Hi fellow scholars! Here’s the Core Office bringing you once again the wonders of modern day interpretations of our beloved classics. We wanted to share with you a couple of clips referenced today in Prof. Hamill’s lecture on“Witnessing Tragedy in Euripides’ Hecuba”. Enjoy!
Queens of Syria tells the story of fifty women from Syria, all forced into exile in Jordan, who came together in Autumn 2013 to create and perform their own version of the Trojan Women, the timeless Ancient Greek tragedy about the plight of women in war.
What followed was an extraordinary moment of cross-cultural contact across millennia, in which women born in 20th century Syria found a blazingly vivid mirror of their own experiences in the stories of a queen, princesses and ordinary women like them, uprooted, enslaved, and bereaved by the Trojan War.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YuBeBjqKSGQ
This last video is taken from the most famous aria from Mozart’s opera, The Magic Flute, where we can see another “queen”, the Queen of the Night.
