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UNBELIEVABLE: Pericles - The Untold Story

The real "Odyssey" debate

Christopher Nolan's film reveals the fight over cultural ownership of ancient Greece

Salon

‘A very basic human desire to want some control’: US exhibition explores the power of magic

Objects that were believed to have some form of magic effect are part of an exhibition exploring how ancient cultures tried to change the world around them

The Guardian - US

The week in theatre: The Years; Pericles – review

Extraordinary performances from five actors all playing the writer Annie Ernaux add up to a five-star adaptation of her Nobel prize-winning book. And a fairytale take on Pericles

The Guardian - UK

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Pericles review – Alfred Enoch rules the stage in a neglected Shakespeare

Tamara Harvey’s first production as the Royal Shakespeare Company’s co-artistic director highlights the play’s sharp political intelligence

The Guardian - UK

Siege Courageous, Excellent Lass and Pericles shine

Siege Courageous, Excellent Lass and Pericles shone when the horses were exercised in Bengaluru on Wednesday morning (Jan. 24).

The Hindu

Shakespeare's environmentalism: how his plays explore the same ecological issues we face today

Climate change, urban sprawl, air pollution, deforestation, depleted fish stocks, biodiversity and species loss: these are not exclusively modern problems that only sprang up in the last few hundred years. In fact, the common but misleading phrase “industrial revolution” masks the long history of resource extraction and ecological degradation in…

The Conversation

Explainer: Socrates and the life worth living

Socrates was notoriously annoying. He was likened to a gadfly buzzing around while one is trying to sleep. The Oracle of Delphi declared him the wisest of all human beings. His life and death would go on to shape the history of Western thought.

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The Weekly Wrap for Saturday, 9 July 2022

Boris Johnson has gone. He won't soon be forgotten.

inkl Originals

Tallying the dead is one thing, giving them names would take an 'inexhaustible voice,' as the ancient Greeks knew

The official count of Americans lost to COVID-19 has surpassed 1 million. It is the latest grim milestone that has marked the progression of deaths and infections since the virus took hold in the U.S. in March 2020.

The Conversation

Brexit was bad, but Boris Johnson’s glib lawbreaking is much worse

The PM’s damaging slogan about leaving the EU is as nothing when compared with his attitude to following his own rules

The Guardian - UK

Decolonising Shakespeare: setting Othello in Ghana and Pericles in Glasgow

Over the last few years, the issue of decolonising the curriculum has become a growing concern for UK universities. This means recognising the legacy of western colonialism and rethinking the way we teach and research.

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