One student in that class is a mother who had that evening brought her seven-year old son to class. He sat quietly through most of our reading, playing with his puppets at the back of the room. At one point while his mother was reading one of Medea's most threatening speeches she stopped herself and called "Be quiet, Graham." He and his puppets had become agitated in their own drama and by the excitement of the one he was hearing.

Another project was the comparison of the same scene in several translations. We used the translations available in our library and in the students' personal collections. No translation was found to be satisfactory. But this is the point for students reading Greek. There is so much more in the Greek than can be expressed in translation. One student was inspired to write a new play using some of the images from Medea that were most striking to him.

A third project is the performance of scenes in Greek. These get the students into the working of the drama, the gestures (repeated supplications, actual and remembered, for example), the back and forth flow of the war of words, and especially the sounds. In selecting their parts they become aware that in every scene is one male and one female voice. The need to hold scripts, unfortunately hampered their movements.