CLAS 3813: Ancient Greece & Rome in Film - "O Brother, Where Art Thou?"

January 22, 2025 (6:30 pm)

Location: BAC 132


Join us for a screening of the film "O Brother, Where Art Though" happening in BAC 132, on Wednesday, January 22, 2025 at 6:30pm.
 
CLAS 3813 "Ancient Greece and Rome in Film" is a course happening this term that looks at how our modern visions and adaptations of ancient Mediterranean societies attempt to represent the realities of the past while simultaneously shedding light on our contemporary identities, politics, gender roles, and popular culture.
 
Instructor, Dr. Chelsea Gardner, is showing a total of 10 movies on Wednesday nights which are open to the Acadia community (and to invited guests if you have friends/family who'd like to attend!). CLAS 3813 students will give short introductions to the films with historical context (both from antiquity and from when the film was actually made) followed by a Q&A.
 
The Acadia campus was surveyed for their input on which films to include this term. Here is a list of the movies that will be shown every Wed from now until the end of March:
 
January 15: Disney’s Hercules
January 22: O Brother, Where Art Thou?
January 29: Antigone
February 5: Chi-Raq
February 12: 300
NOTE February 19: NO MOVIE (reading week)
February 26: A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to Forum
March 5: Spartacus
March 12: Cleopatra
March 19: Ovid and the Art of Love
March 26: Monty Python’s Life of Brian
 
See you at the movies!

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