Over 4,000 views on YouTube!

Our videos have been watched in 63 countries, one of which is an "unknown region"—very mysterious.

Here's the list:

Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, Costa Rica, China, Colombia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Finland, France, Gambia, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Israel, Iran, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Martinique, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, the Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Peru, the Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Slovakia, Slovenia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, the U.K., the U.S.A., “Unknown Region,” Vietnam.

In the U.S., the videos have been watched in 43 states, plus Washington, D.C., and another "unknown region."  

Most of the views have taken place in the U.S., but there's been a lot of viewing activity in Spain, the U.K., Italy, Australia, Canada, Germany, Greece, France, and the Ukraine (that's our top ten list).

This blog has been visited over 1,000 times.  Visitors, please feel free to leave comments and questions!

 

3,500 views in four months!

We're up to 3500 views now, in 57 countries and 44 states (one of which is listed as "Unknown region, US"--??).  Here is where our videos have been watched:

Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, Iceland, India, Ireland, Israel, Iran, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Martinique, Mexico, Morocco, the Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Peru, the Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Slovakia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, the U.K., the U.S. A., Vietnam.

This blog page has been visited more than 750 times.

The APA Workshop led by Tim (with a tiny bit of assistance by Sharon) was a great success, and created a big spike in viewership.  

If you're going to CAMWS, be sure to go to the Comedy panel organized by our participants!

3,000 views worldwide!

Our videos have now been viewed 3,000 times in the last three months (we're catching up to Psy, the Gangnam guy), in 43 U.S. states and 52 other nations: 
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Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cambodia, Canada, China, Colombia, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Ireland, Israel, Iran, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Martinique, Mexico, Morocco, the Netherlands, Norway, New Zealand, Peru, the Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, South Korea, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, Taiwan, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, the U.K., Vietnam.

YouTube's "Analytics" indicate that the Latin performances are especially popular around the world.

Tim and Sharon want to remind everybody that our workshop, at the APA conference in Seattle, is scheduled for 8.30-11.30am, Friday January 4th. 

2,500 views in 2 months!

Our videos have had 2500 views in just two months!  That isn't Justin Bieber territory, but it's pretty impressive for ancient Roman playwrights. 

The videos have been viewed in 43 of the States, and in 47 countries.  Here is a list of the global viewing locations:

Australia, Canada, the U.K., Spain, Greece, Italy, Germany, Hong Kong, Cyprus, Brazil, India, France, the Netherlands, Russia, Argentina, Sweden, Austria, Belgium, Japan, Norway, Hungary, Ireland, Morocco, Taiwan, the United Arab Emirates, the Czech Republic, Luxembourg, Romania, Bolivia, Switzerland, China, Colombia, Egypt, Finland, Israel, Iran, Cambodia, South Korea, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, the Philippines, Poland, Turkey, Ukraine, and Vietnam.

U.S. high school teachers are using the videos in their classes, as well.

We invite all our viewers to post questions and comments on this blog--on the specific post for any given video, on this page, or on the Open Thread page (listed in the Labels menu to the right).  We'd love to hear from you, and will be very glad to give answers, replies, and thoughts.

Graduate students at Washington University in St. Louis recently used several of the NEH Institute videos as part of a proseminar on Classics and the Study of Performance.

General Information

This page gives a little information, plus links to more information, about the NEH Summer Institute, "Roman Comedy in Performance," which ran from June 24th to July 20th, 2012, at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 

This Institute experimented with different types and choices in performance of selected scenes from Roman Comedy, and it produced twenty scenes, which can be found here on YouTube.  Specific posts for viewing individual scenes, and leaving comments or questions, conducting discussion, providing information about resources, teaching, staging productions, etc., are all listed in the menu on the right, as are other relevant post topics.

The co-directors were Sharon L. James and Timothy J. Moore.

Our page on the Institute's official website is here.

Sharon L. James is Associate Professor of Classics at UNC Chapel Hill.  She earned her doctorate in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley, with a dissertation on parents and children in the Iliad, the Aeneid, and the Divine Comedy.  Since then her specialties have been in women and gender in antiquity, particularly in Roman love elegy and New Comedy.  She has published numerous articles in these fields.  Her book, Learned Girls and Male Persuasion: Gender and Reading in Roman Love Elegy was published by the University of California Press in 2003.  She has recently co-edited, with Professor Sheila Dillon, the Blackwell Companion to Women in the Ancient World (2012).  She regularly teaches courses in Roman Comedy, Latin poetry, and women in ancient Greece and Rome.  She is currently completing a large-scale study of women in Greek and Roman New Comedy.

Timothy J. Moore is John and Penelope Biggs Distinguished Professor of Classics and Department Chair of Classics at Washington University in St. Louis.  He has written many articles on a range of subjects, and is an expert on music in Roman Comedy.  His books include Music in Roman Comedy (Cambridge 2012),  Roman Theatre  (Cambridge 2012), The Theater of Plautus: Playing to the Audience (Austin 1998), and Artistry and Ideology: Livy's Vocabulary of Virtue (Frankfurt 1989).

Information about the Visiting Faculty Experts can be found here.

A general open thread can be found here.

News and publicity

This is the page for news, publicity, notices and information about staged performances.  Please let us know of any programs you're running!

Sharon is putting on a show-and-tell on Friday the 14th of September, in the Murphey Hall Auditorium on the UNC Chapel Hill campus.  Jeanne Neumann, Elizabeth Patterson, and Chris Woodworth will be there, to talk about their experiences in the Institute, their creative processes, and any classes or productions they're thinking about.

So what are you up to?  Post a comment and let us know!