Emma Weinheimer and Joshua Hochschild interview Kurt Blaugher about Sophocles' plays Antigone and Philoctetes.

Dr. Blaugher is a professor of theater at Mount St. Mary's University.

Recorded 2020-21

0:00 Core Curriculum

4:45 Sophocles' Context

9:00 Function in Greek Society

11:40 Antigone

16:30 Divine vs Human Law

21:30 End of the Play

25:30 Philoctetes

30:20 Challenges of Performing

34:55 Mount St Mary's Trivia

37:00 New Translations for Veterans