# Ancient Greece in Film, Opera and the Arts

- Institution: Gresham College
- Speaker: Professor Edith Hall
- Year: 2017
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: History, Religion, Literature and writing, Art, architecture and design
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/series/ancient-greece-film-opera-and-arts)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

Homer’s Iliad, the earliest Greek poem, narrates the archetypal war between ‘Europeans’ and ‘Asiatics’ divided by the Hellespont. Looking at Wolfgang Peterson’s blockbuster Troy (2004), the lecture describes the genesis of the Iliad between the Mycenaean Late Bronze Age and the 8th centu

## Lectures

1. [Homer's Iliad via the Movie Troy (2004)](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-ancient-greece-film-opera-and-arts/4c871614ad6a) (YouTube)
2. [The Age of Tyrants: Sappho via Gounod's Opera](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-ancient-greece-film-opera-and-arts/b9ac12e140d2) (YouTube)
3. [Slave Stories: Aesop and Walter Crane](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/series-ancient-greece-film-opera-and-arts/abbd226ba822) (YouTube)