History of Theatre / Theater 1 - From Ritual to Theater / Ancient Greek Theater

beta0net Says:

Aug 1, 2008 - thanx

susancardillo Says:

Aug 25, 2008 - I am a theatre teacher and I would love to show this to my classes, but we are blocked from youtube at our school, is ther a way that I can get a copy of this series another way??

beta0net Says:

Aug 25, 2008 - check my mail

danyramone Says:

Sep 2, 2008 - esta bien chafon a e video mugre miss nora

enijenni Says:

Sep 8, 2008 - i think that sacraficing a goat is rediculus. jeneida baa

beta0net Says:

Sep 22, 2008 - those were the days..

leadguitarist10 Says:

Oct 7, 2008 - Not bad. Currently at uni studyin this and it's really helpful considering I've got a lecture tomorrow on Agamennon.

beta0net Says:

Oct 8, 2008 - you might also read mark damen's syllabus thats not bad either, see link in information box

Toracube Says:

Feb 2, 2009 - There is not enough of this type of thing on youtube. Thanks for posting it.

kcreigh1 Says:

Mar 1, 2009 - where is this? im new to youtube and i am wanting to show this in my class too but like susancardillo, youtube is blocked in my school. i think it would be a cool video to show

beta0net Says:

Mar 2, 2009 - hi kcreigh1, you might download the vid.. the quality is not optimal ofcourse, but still reasonable is my experience.

beta0net Says:

Apr 8, 2009 - hear, hear

prestodc Says:

May 1, 2009 - this is absolutely wonderful, thank you for this, i look forward to watching the other parts!

Ramanujan88 Says:

Aug 21, 2009 - holy!

NekoOfDarknesss Says:

Sep 19, 2009 - I watched this in class... and I have to say, I was mentally scarred by the naked man....

beta0net Says:

Oct 4, 2009 - huhu

Aeschylus Says:

Oct 18, 2009 - A note on pronunciation: this woman is neither English nor Greek, and her pronunciation of the words and names here is neither English nor Greek. For example, Διόνυσος is digh-oh-NIGH-sus in English, thee-OH-nee-sohs in Greek. And Aeschylus (I should know!) is EE-skil-us in English, eh-SÇEE-lohs (/ε'sxilos/) in Greek. I think she's trying to make these sound more "authentic" (i.e. less English) by applying sort of a Spanish/European pronunciation that doesn't fit Greek......

Aeschylus Says:

Oct 18, 2009 - .......I don't mean this as a serious knock (and overall the video's a good one: thanks for posting it!), but I just don't want anybody going away thinking that this is how these things should be pronounced (σκηνή/skini, for example, is accented on the second syllable, and Aegisthus/Αἴγισθος is ee-JIS-thus in Eng., EH-yhee-sthohs in Greek), any more than I'd want people walking away pronouncing "perishable" and "prologue" the way she does.

beta0net Says:

Oct 18, 2009 - hi ε'sxilos, thanx for your support. indeed, the (american?) english of the voice-over is nt perfect, but perhaps better than your greek, or when you are a greek, better than your english. not being a native english speaker, I think she should be praised for her effort to speak correct english. she only tried to be more or less authentic in the pronunciation of the (ancient) greek words/names. and here we have a problem.

beta0net Says:

Oct 18, 2009 - to quote your example, skini is the pronunciation of σκηνή in MODERN greek, but in ancient greek (and this video is on ancient greek drama) it is probably: skènè. further ae in Aeschylus and Aegisthus is not ee or eh, but it might be ai in ancient greek. and finally, the x (chi) in Aeschylus and the γ (gamma) in Aegisthus were probably pronounced as '[gh] a sound not exisiting in english...

beta0net Says:

Oct 18, 2009 - thus, being unable to pronounce this guttural sound, it is very difficult for ALL native english speaking persons to pronounce greek (or e.g. spanish or dutch) faultlessly. anyway, AIs[gh]ilos, it was an interesting comment!

Aeschylus Says:

Oct 19, 2009 - Not enough room for a proper answer here, so sending you a personal one. Again, thanks for posting!

beta0net Says:

Oct 19, 2009 - Hi Aeschylus, thanks for your personal message. Yes, is it sisero or kikero (Cicero)? Same problem in Greek. Expecting more comments on pronunciation like yours, in the following videos on theatre we - very inconsistently indeed, and contre coeur (how to pronounce?) tried to use the Enlish pronunciation of ancient Greek words, again with several mistakes. However, a skènè is not a scene. Gr. ß

OrinjFlames24 Says:

Nov 5, 2009 - why would they hire some1 who couldn't speak english?

beta0net Says:

Nov 5, 2009 - hi cute orin-etc, hahaha: this is my first music vid with lyrics so this one sucks i'll make other ones too but for now this is only one plz rate and comment??? Couldnt u hire somebody?