What does it mean to read Greek tragedy in a pandemic, a global crisis? Mario Telò (Rhetoric, Ancient Greek & Roman Studies, and Comparative Literature) offers a deep understanding of Greek tragedy and its most famous icons in the context of contemporary times. In close readings of plays such as Alcestis, Antigone, Bacchae, Hecuba, Oedipus the King, Prometheus Bound, and Trojan Women, Telò shows how our experience is precariously refracted back in the formal worlds of plays named after and, to an extent, epitomized by tragic characters.

He is joined by Debarati Sanyal (French).