Crash Course
Thespis, Athens, and The Origins of Greek Drama: Crash Course Theater #2
This week on Crash Course Theater, Mike is acting like theater started in Greece. Well, for the western theater, this is true. The earliest recorded drama in the west arose in Athen, and these early plays grew out or religious ritual....
National Theatre
Medea's Dress: Making Blood and Mud
Dyer and Textile Artist Rosie Maccurrach demonstrates using dye in costume design, as used for Medea's bloodied and mud-stained dress, worn by Helen McCrory in the final scenes of the 2014 production.
NASA
Discovering Eurybates' Satellite
On Jan. 9, 2020, the Lucy Mission officially announced that it would be visiting not seven, but eight asteroids. As it turns out, Eurybates, one of the asteroids along Lucy’s path, has a small satellite. Shortly after the Lucy team...
Oxford Comma
Ancient Greek Tragedy: An Introduction and How I Fell in Love with Teaching It
Throughout my traditional education I hated ancient tragedies. But years down the road, I was told I had to teach Antigone... This video explains how I went from hating to loving Greek tragedies, and how, by putting the works into some...
Curated Video
TRADERS SET UP BARTERING SYSTEM TO AVOID USING EUROS
Traders in a city in central Greece are rejecting the Euro before the Euro rejects them.
A network of traders in Volos has set up an alternative currency based on the bartering of goods and services.
Membership has rocketed as the...
Crash Course
Crash Course Theater #2: Origins of Greek Drama
In this episode of Crash Course Theater, Mike discusses the western theater which started in Greece. The earliest recorded drama in the west arose in Athen, and these early plays grew out or religious ritual. Namely, they evolved from...