Reading Classics, Chronologically Through the Ages discussion

Hopefully soon I will be reading some of the plays from the list. My intention is to read each play in one go and then hopefully watch a performance of the play (or maybe vice versa - I haven't quite decided). I haven't searched too heavily but I was wondering if anyone knows of any good resources where I might find recordings of performances.

Would anyone be interested if I compiled a list here as I found them?

Edit: Here we go then!

Agamemnon by Aeschylus: Part 1 Part 2

YES. I would be very interested! Shakespeare is easy enough to locate, but others are difficult.

Hi, Yes! I vastly prefer to see plays performed rather than reading them. I looked on Youtube for Medea, and it looks like there are a couple of good candidates there -- but I have not actually watched a video of Medea yet.

We could also review the versions we actually watch. :-)

I watched the recording of Agamemnon that I listed above and it was very compelling. I believe I remember learning that they used masks and that women characters would be played by men in ancient Greece, so this version seemed similar to what the original audience would have seen (although the translation seems odd so there might have been some artistic liberties taken here).

I have to admit, though, that I found some parts really unintentionally funny. When they would play dramatic music and zoom in on each face/mask, it made me laugh. And Clytemnestra's intensity and body language was sometimes humorous, especially knowing it was a man.

I was hoping to listen to some things on Audible this year with my daughter like the Iliad, Odyssey and Julius Caesar. I figured because they are either poems or plays, they should be listened to (with books in hand). But I had no luck finding readings for most of the Greek tragedies, which is sad!

I bought this DVD of Antigone for my daughter when we homeschooled and it's very good.

Thank you both!