Audiovisual materials
Department Slide Collection:
The Department has an excellent teaching collection of over 16,000 slides covering all areas of Greek and Roman art, architecture, and technology.
Lansdowne lectures
The Department of Greek and Roman studies has digitised the entire catalog of videotaped GRS Lansdowne Lectures. They are now available for online viewing.
Other lectures and performances
Provost's Lecturers: Professor John OlesonDistinguished Professor of Humanities, University of Victoria Provost's Lecturers: Professor Keith Bradley
Eli J. Shaheen Professor of Classics, University of Notre Dame
Visiting lecturers:
| Hellenistic Influences on Latin Literature | Dr. Wendell Clausen - Harvard University - Download |
| Politics and Early Tragedy | Dr. John H. Finley Jr. Download |
| "(title unknown)" | Dr. John Th. Kakabidis Download |
| Aspects of Greek Tragedy: The Suppliants of Aeschylus: The New Date and some Old Problems | Dr. Hugh Lloyd-Jones - Oxford University Download |
| The Norm of Myth: Euripides' Electra | Dr. Masaaki Kubo - University of Tokyo Download |
| Aristarchus on the Ending of the Odyssey | Dr. William Bodell - Standford University Download |
UVic students perform Aristophanes
- Scene from Aristophanes' Knights (Lines 1-146)
- Scene from Aristophanes' Lysistrata (Lines 872-953)
- Scene from Aristophanes' Lysistrata (Lines 1112-1161)
Available through the UVic Media Library:
Greek Tragedy
| The Oresteia |
Directed by Peter Hall, 1983. Translation of Aeschylus' trilogy by Tony Harrison. A National Theatre of Great Britain production. 1. Agamemnon. 2. Choephori (Libation-Bearers). 3. Eumenides. |
| Antigone |
1987. BBC production. English translation of Sophocles' play by Don Taylor. With Juliet Stevenson (Antigone), John Shrapnel (Creon), John Gielgud (Tiresias). |
| Gospel at Colonus |
Adapted and directed by Lee Breuer, 1985. Music by Bob Telson. A performance at the American Music Theater Festival in Philadelphia (Another copy is stored in B412.) |
| Oedipus at Colonus |
1987. BBC production. With Anthony Quayle (Oedipus), Juliet Stevenson (Antigone), John Shrapnel (Creon) |
| Oedipus the King |
1987. BBC production. With Michael Pennington (Oedipus), Claire Bloom (Jocasta), John Gielgud (Tiresias). |
| Oedipus the King |
Directed by Philip Saville, 1967. English translation of Sophocles' play by Paul Roche. With Christopher Plummer (Oedipus), Orson Welles (Tiresias). |
| Medea |
1982. Kennedy Center production. English version of Euripides' play by Robinson Jeffers. With Zoe Caldwell (Medea) and Judith Anderson (Nurse). |
| Medea |
Directed by Peter Steadman, 1985. In the Greek of Euripides, with subtitles; music by Eve Beglarian. With Lavinia Lorch (Medea). New York Greek Drama Company. |
| Trojan Women |
Directed by Michael CacoYannis, 1971. English version of Euripides' play by Edith Hamilton. With Katharine Hepburn (Hecuba), Genevieve Bujold (Cassandra), Vanessa Redgrave (Andromache), Irene Pappas (Helen). |
| Staging Greek Tragedy | 1982. University of Warwick. |
Other Videocassettes
| The Power of Myth (6 videocassettes) | Joseph Campbell |
| Satyricon | Fellini |
| Frogs | By Aristophanes, l991.
London Small Theatre Company (now Aquila Productions), Director Peter Meineck |
| Herculaneum |
In Search of the Trojan War B412
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| Trajan's Column | |
| Ancient Greece | Kept in the Curriculum Laboratory |
| Ancient Rome | Kept in the Curriculum Laboratory |
| Greek and Roman Sports | Kept in the Curriculum Laboratory |
| Religion in Roman Life | Kept in the Curriculum Laboratory |
| Slaves in Ancient Rome | Kept in the Curriculum Laboratory |
Films
Available through the UVic Media Library:
| Clouds | Adapted from Aristophanes. (By the Open University) |
| Cradle of England series |
Narrated by Barry Cunliffe Age of Aggression Comparison of fighting methods of native Celts and invading Romans. Age of Affluence Description of settled conditions in Britain after the Roman conquest. |
| Emperor and Slave: the Philosophy of Roman Stoicism B412 | Dramatizations of extracts from Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus, with commentary. |
| Ingenium Romae B412 | Latin version of The Spirit of Rome, with Latin subtitles for a scene from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. |
| Syrin | (National Film Board, 3 mins.) |
Audio cassettes
Greek (and Myth)
| Aeschylus | Agamemnon (Bradfield College) JGF |
| Benjamin Britten | Six Metamorphoses After Ovid, Op. 49 JGF |
| Euripides | Bacchae (Bradfield College) JGF |
| The Gift of Legends | Conversations between Michael Ayrton & Yehudi Menuhin |
| The Iliad of Homer | Books 1-6, read by Stephen G. Daitz B409 |
| Sophocles | Antigone (by Swedish students) JGF |
| Sophocles | Antigone (Columbia University) JGF |
| Spoken Greek Prose (3 copies) | Thucyd. 2.65.5-13, Demosth. Phil . 1.40-42, De Corona 199-205, Plato Apol . 41c8-42 (end), Phaedo 117a4-end, Resp . III 401bl-d3, V 473c8-e2 |
| Spoken Greek Verse (Discourses) (3) | Homer, Iliad 6.440-493; Sappho (OBGV 141); Ps-Anacreon (OBGV 180); Aesch. Ag . 503-37, 551-82, 636-80, Soph. O .C 668-719, Eur. Tro.740-79, Ba . 977-1023, Aristoph. Av. 227-62, Callimachus OBGV 513 |
Latin
| Cambridge Latin Course | Units I, II (2nd edn.) B409 |
| Cambridge Latin Course | Unit III (2nd edn.) B409 |
| Cambridge Latin Course | Unit IlI (1st edn.) (3 copies) |
| Cambridge Latin Course |
Unit IV (1st edn.) (2) Pliny, Catullus, Martial, Tacitus, Ovid |
| Classics of Latin Poetry and Prose | Extracts from Cic. Cat., various poems of Catullus and Horace |
| Horace, Odes | Read by John Hazel et al. |
| Horace, Satires |
1.1, 4, 6, 9, 10, read by Peter L. Smith |
| Juvenal, Satires | 1 and 3, read by Peter L. Smith |
| Latin Readings | Volume 1 (2)
Cic. Rep . 3.22.33; Caes. Gall. 4.25; Livy Praef : 6-11; Tac. Ann . 1.7; L.P. Wilkinson, Public Oration ; Plautus Curc . 147-80, Ter. Haut . 53-81; Lucr. 1.1-24, 3.830-42, 894-911, Catullus 13, 43, 76, Verg. Ecl . 5.45-84, Aen . 2.1-20, 21-56, 268-97, 4.630-58, Horace Odes 1.5, Satires 1.9, Archipoeta Confessio 1-28, 37-48. |
| Orff, Carmina Burana |
(Deutsche Grammophon) JGF |
| The Poems of Catullus | Read by Victoria Bentata |
| Selections from Catullus and Horace | Read by Robert P. Sonkowsky B409
"The Living Voice of Greek and Latin" series |
| Sounds of the Roman World | (Archaeologica Musica) |
| Vergil, Eclogues and Georgic | s 1-2, read by Peter L. Smith Language Centre |
| P. Vergili Maronis Aeneidos Libri | 1-6, read by Peter L. Smith
A complete recording on six cassettes, made by PLS in 1981 |
| Vox Romana (3 copies) | I. Roman Legends from Livy & Ovid
Romulus & Remus (Livy 1.6.3-7.3, Ovid Fasti 4.809-18, 835-50); Brutus Gamp, the Tarquins (Livy 1.56, Ovid Fasti 2.713-20); Hercules &, Cacus (Livy 1.7.3-7, Ovid Fasti 1.547-78) II. Short readings of Verse and Prose Catullus 31, 3, 101; Horace, Odes 1.8, 4.7; Caesar Gall. 4.24; Cicero Cat. 1. 1-2; 0 Roma Nobilis ; St. Bonaventure, St. Francis and the Birds. III. Six passages firom Virgil Ecl. 4.4-21, Georg. 2.136-57, 4.485-503, Aen. 5.843-61, 6.450-71, 12.926-54. |
Records
| Spoken Greek Verse (2 copies) | See details under "Audiocassettes" |
| Greek Verse, Greek Prose (Discourses) | Read by Konrat Ziegler Homer, Od. 1.1-10; Soph. O.T. 1-13, 1524-30, 151-89, Aristoph. Ach. 204-33, Xen. Anab. 1. 1. 1-6, Thucyd. 1.1.1-2, 1. 2, 1. 21-22, Plato Apol. 1 |
| Plato: On the Death of Socrates | Read by Moses Hadas
Extracts from Apology and Phaedo. |
| Spoken Greek Prose (2 copies) | See details under "audio cassettes" |
| Modern Greek Heroic Oral Poetry | (Folkways Records) |
| Sophocles | Antigone (Columbia University) |
Latin
| Cicero | (Read by Moses Hadas) Cat. I, De Sen., Tusc. I, De Off : I xxv 85-86, Ad Att. |
| Julius Caesar | (Read by Moses Hadas) Gall. 1.1, 4.24, 25, 26, 5.45, 46, 48, 4.17-18, 6.13, Civ. 1.11, 74, 3.47-48,3.90. |
| The Latin Language | (Read by Moses Hadas) Short extracts from the Elder, Cicero, Lucretius, Catullus, Vergil, Horace, Ovid, Seneca, Tacitus, Apuleius, Jerome, Augustine, Mystery Plays, Veni Sancte Spiritus, Thomas Aquinas, Bernard of Cluny, Stabat Mater, Carmina Burana, Luther, Toplady |
| The Latin Language | Volume 1 (3) See details under "audio cassettes" |
| Latin Readings | Volume 2 Scenes from Terence, Eunuchus and Adelphi. |
| Latin Readings | Volume 3 Livy 2.32, Cic. Verr. 2.4.3-4, Pro Archia 7.15-10.22, Sall. Cat.. 52, Tac. Ann. 1.42-43, Aug. Conf. 4.16- 18 |
| Latin Readings | Read by John F.C. Richards 1.4, 9, 11, 16, 17, 38; 2.2, 3, 7, 10, 14, 16; 3.13, 16, 21; 4.7, 9, 12. |
| Odes of Horace | By John F.C. Richards 1.1-11, 254-96, 446-63; 2. 1-20, 40-56, 234-45, 361-69, 601-23. 771-94; 4.296-330, 331-61; 6.298-330, 450-76, 713-51, 826-63. |
| Readings from Virgil: Aeneid | By Mario A. Pei [i.e. ecclesiastical pronunciation!] Caes. Gall. 1-2, 31, 54; Cic. Cat. 1.1-6, 3.26, Pro Archia 11 |
| Readings in Church Latin: Caesar and Cicero | By Mario A. Pei Verg. Aen. 1.1-33, 2.1-104, 6.124-55, 808-53 Horace Odes 1.9, 14, 22, 2.14, 3.30, l.l |
| Readings in Church Latin: Caesar and Cicero | Directed by L.A. Moritz |
| Vox Romana | I. Roman legends from Livy & Ovid |
| Vox Romana | II. Short Readings of Verse and Prose |
| Vox Romana | III. Six passages from Virgil See details under "audio cassettes" |