Back Stories of the Ancient Greeks - Norah Dooley @mfa Boston

Listen as the new Greek galleries come alive with vivid myths and stories from the Ancient world.  Join storyteller Norah Dooley ( norahdooley.com) for 15 minute tales in the gallery.  Co-presented by MassMouth (www.massmouth.org) and the mfaBoston depatrtment of education.

Music thanks to Michael Levy,lyre of, Wales, UK. In the beginning of the podcast we hear the Epitaph of Seikilos, a complete Ancient Greek Melody Composed by Seikilos, Son of Euterpe, 1st Century CE - Arranged For Replica Lyre and in the outro, the Ancient Greek Musical Fragment, Poem. Mor 1, 11f. Migne 37, 523 - Arranged For Replica Lyre. More of his work www.youtube.com/user/Klezfiddle1

Pathos and Bathos: Backstories of the Ancient Greeks:

The stories of Classical Greece are considered central to an auspicious canon of western literature and history.  But the backstories of events like the Trojan war, how wine came to the symposia and the death of Agamemnon read more like the headlines from People Magazine and Gawker blog.  That mother and her boyfriend killed her….what? Drunken shepherds did what? That celebrity father did what to his daughter? Master storyteller Norah Dooley explores the backstories of objects in three rooms in the new Greek galleries; from the initiating incident of Homer’s epic ( Helen of Troy ) to the fate of the inventor of wine ( Ikarios and his daughter) and Aeuschylus' depiction of the "madness" of Clytemnestra ( death of Agamemnon).

Three New Galleries Highlighting Greek Wine, Theater and Poetry Open at MFA Boston

MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON

Avenue of the Arts
465 Huntington Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts 02115

617-267-9300

All Spotlight Talks are free with Museum admission.

Next is Odds Bodkin Master storyteller: Odds Bodkin

Bringing MFA’s “Homer and the Epics” Collection to Life:

with his "Excerpts from The Odyssey and The Iliad"

Sunday, January 18, 2015

1:00 pm – 1:15 pm
2:00 pm – 2:15pm
3:00 pm – 3:15pm

Krupp Gallery (Gallery 215A) January 18, 2015
Free with Admission – No Ticket Required

 

Michael Levy was born in Liverpool in 1968 & studied Philosophy at the University of Hull. After living in Manchester, where for many years, he worked as both a piano tutor & a support worker for adults with learning disabilities, he now lives with his wife & daughter, Rosalind & Rosie, on the border of semi-rural South Wales, UK : where in his new role, as a full-time "Musical Shaman", he continues to his relentless quest - bringing to life, the lost music of the ancient world... - See more at: http://www.ancientlyre.com/