Last August, the Department of Classics' own Professor Adriana Brook was a panelist at the Stratford Festival Meighen Forum.
The panel was recorded for the Everyday Forum Podcast and is now available to listen online.
Listen here! Episode 25: Storytelling and the Oral Tradition.
Playwrights Erin Shields, Nehiyaw storyteller Trina Moyan, and University of Toronto professor Adriana Brook explore storytelling as a transformative force across time. From the origins of Greek epic poetry and its roots in oral tradition to its transition to the written page, the panel reflects on how stories like Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey continue to shape culture today. Discover how ancient narratives and modern adaptations such as Shields’ Ransacking Troy reveal the enduring human impulse to share stories as a way of understanding the world.
Support for The Meighen Forum is generously provided by Kelly & Michael Meighen and the T.R. Meighen Family Foundation.