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David Stuttard is a British theatre director, classical scholar, translator, lecturer on classical literature and history, and author, primarily of historical works on the ancient world.
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David Stuttard is a British theatre director, classical scholar, translator, lecturer on classical literature and history, and author, primarily of historical works on the ancient world.
Stuttard read Classics at the University of St Andrews and taught the subject for eleven years. As well as being a professional lecturer and author, in 1993 he founded the touring theatre company Actors of Dionysus, [1] which specializes in classical Greek drama. From 1993 to 2004 he was co-Artistic Director with Tamsin Shasha and directed his own translations and adaptations at venues in the UK and abroad. He has also written dramatic reconstructions of the lost Euripides plays Alexandros and Palamedes, which were premiered as part of 'The Trojan Trilogy' at the British Museum in April 2008. [2] He teaches at University College London Workshops and at the Ancient and Classical Worlds Summer School at The University of Cambridge. [3] [4]
| Euripides' 'Medea' | Translation | Penguin Audiobooks 1997 |
| Essays on 'Trojan Women' | Edition, with Tamsin Shasha | Actors of Dionysus 2002 |
| Essays on 'Agamemnon' | Edition, with Tamsin Shasha | Actors of Dionysus 2003 |
| An Introduction to 'Trojan Women' | An essay, with an adaptation and Audio CD of the play | Company Dionysus 2005 |
| Essays on 'Bacchae' | Edition | Actors of Dionysus 2006 |
| Looking at Lysistrata: Eight Essays and a New Version of Aristophanes' Provocative Comedy | Edition | Duckworth 2010 |
| AD 410: The Year That Shook Rome | Written with Sam Moorhead | British Museum Press 2010 |
| Power Games: Ritual and Rivalry at the Ancient Greek Olympics | British Museum Press 2012 | |
| 31 BC: Antony, Cleopatra and the Fall of Egypt | British Museum Press 2012 | |
| The Romans Who Shaped Britain | Written with Sam Moorhead | Thames & Hudson 2012 |
| The Parthenon: Power and Politics on the Acropolis | British Museum Press 2013 | |
| Looking at Medea: Essays and a translation of Euripides' tragedy | Bloomsbury Academic 2014 | |
| A History of Ancient Greece in Fifty Lives | Thames & Hudson 2014 | |
| Sappho: The Sweetness of Honey | Translations with Josephine Balmer, Audio CD | Actors of Dionysus 2015 |
| Greek Mythology: A Traveller's Guide from Mount Olympus to Troy | Drawings by Lis Watkins | Thames & Hudson 2016 |
| Looking at Bacchae: Essays and a translation of Euripides' tragedy | Bloomsbury Academic 2016 | |
| Nemesis: Alcibiades and the Fall of Athens | Harvard University Press 2018 | |
| Looking at Antigone: Essays and a translation of Sophocles' tragedy | Bloomsbury Academic 2019 | |
| Phoenix: A Father, a Son, and the Rise of Athens | Harvard University Press 2021 |
The Bacchae is an ancient Greek tragedy, written by the Athenian playwright Euripides during his final years in Macedonia, at the court of Archelaus I of Macedon. It premiered posthumously at the Theatre of Dionysus in 405 BC as part of a tetralogy that also included Iphigeneia at Aulis and Alcmaeon in Corinth, and which Euripides' son or nephew is assumed to have directed. It won first prize in the City Dionysia festival competition.
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The Frogs is a comedy written by the Ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes. It was performed at the Lenaia, one of the Festivals of Dionysus in Athens, in 405 BC and received first place.
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