Episode 1
The Bacchae by Euripides
introduced by Zina Giannopoulou
Pentheus, the excessively rational king of Thebes, dies a savage death at the hands of the followers of Dionysus, god of irrationality.
Episode 2
Philoctetes by Sophocles
introduced by Jane O. Newman
Philoctetes, by Sophocles, is frequently taught and performed in the context of wartime trauma and its afterlives in the hearts and minds of veterans.
Sophia Metcalf
Voice Actor, Herakles
Abel García
Voice Actor, Philoctetes
Brandon Foxworth
Voice Actor, Neoptolemus
Produced by Carrie Noland, Director of the International Center for Writing and Translation, with support from Julia Lupton, Director of Illuminations
