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Virgil

Virgil

Natalie Haynes Stands Up for the Classics vor 6 Jahren

Episode 3: Virgil gives tips on bee-keeping and creates Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

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Natalie Haynes, critic, writer and reformed stand-up comedian,
brings the ancient world entertainingly up to date.

In each episode, she profiles a figure from ancient Greece or
Rome and creates a stand-up routine around them. She then goes in
search of the links which make the ancient world still very
relevant in the 21st century. For starters, Natalie considers the
work of the Roman poet Virgil, ranging from his hints on
bee-keeping to his great work The Aeneid.

Dido is the classic wronged woman and the Aeneid contains the
best ding-dong between a man and a woman in all Latin literature,
culminating in Dido’s memorable promise “If you go I’m going to
kill myself and then I will pursue you from beyond death with
black fires!”

With Pamela Helen Stephen who's sung Dido in Purcell's Dido and
Aeneas, bee-keeper Gordon Cutting and Dr Llewelyn Morgan who
talks about the greatest poet in the Roman world. Producer:
Christine Hall.

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in April 2014.