Filed under: University, Vacations | Tags: Greek, Study Tour, Tuna Fish, University
Because I haven’t updated in a really long time I now people don’t know that I am currently in Greece on study tour. A working holiday that is partically funded by my university. So far we have seen the Acropolis, the Athenian Agora, the Roman Agora (very briefly… we got lost), Delphi (we had to climb a mountain in 30 mins because we got lost earlier that day, missed our buss and had to catch the next one 3 hours later, 3 hours there and then when we got there the staff were on strike so we only had 30 mins to get up and down.) and the Hills of the Nymphs.
As for our plans, we (Tuna Fish, myself and Kaito) plan to go to Corinth, the Sonion, the Kerimikos etc. But in between that we have been living in hostels. The hostel that we stayed in at the beginning of the week was really nice- we had an ensuite. The only issue I had with it is when I went into one of the other shower rooms to get changed and got locked in. Lucky Tuna Fish was next door and the walls are like paper so I just asked her for help. I took two people to get me out of that shower room…
Now we are at another hostel because it fits better in our bugdet. But it’s surprisingly not bad. It took a while to find it though because while we may be masters of the metro our map reading skills seem to be lacking. Oops.
Filed under: University | Tags: Classical Literature and Civilisations, Comedy, EEEHH!, Euripides, Evil, Fire, Fun, Greek, Tragedy, University
As part of my core module in my degree I do Athenian drama. This is tragedy and comedy. As part of the first term we have to adapt the script and act in two scenes, one from a tragedy and one from a comedy. We officially finished our tragedy today. My group chose to take a scene out the play Medea by Euripides.
Medea (Greek: Μήδεια / Mēdeia) is an ancient Greek tragedy play written by Euripides, based upon the myth of Jason and Medea and first produced in 431 BC. The plot largely centers on the protagonist in her struggle with the world, and the revenge she brings about (by killing her two children) against her husband Jason who has betrayed her for another woman, the princess Glauce.
We chose to do the scene where she is struggling with the decision to kill her children, its one of the most emotively dramatic pieces in the play and we thought we could make it very effective by using two people as Medea, so it’s almost as if her conscience is coming out. I was “Evil Medea”. 
We did really well, even when we nearly set the basement on fire. It taught us an invaluable lesson, keep 15 metres of fabric away from 100 tea light candles!
NEXT: a pantomime version of Wasps?
