APGRD id
5786
Start date
25th May 1960
Production Media
Film
Languages
- English
- Greek, Modern (1453-)
- Russian
Associated ancient works
Companies
APGRD Notes
A romantic comedy following Homer, an American Classicist, who falls for Ilya, a Greek sex worker. The plots of Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus and Euripides' Medea are parodied, with clips of a performance of Medea in the Odeion of Herodes Atticus, Athens.
URI
https://apgrd.classics.ox.ac.uk/productions/production/5786