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Because of the Women
The Histories by Herodotus (just the high points) as told by Tom Cayler
5-7 February, Pontine Theatre presents NYC-based performance artist, Tom Cayler in his original production, Because of the Womenfolk Performances are offered Friday @7:30, Saturday @4 & Sunday @2. Tickets are $24 and may be purchased online at www.pontine.org. Pontine’s West End Studio Theatre is located at 959 Islington Street, Portsmouth NH. Contact Pontine: info@pontine.org / 603-436-6660
The kidnap and rape of Io, Europa, and Medea started the conflict between the East and the West. You may throw in Helen if you wish, but Herodotus dissed Homer on this point. According to Herodotus, Helen was never in Troy.
Herodotus wrote nine books recording “why the Hellenes and the barbarians made war on each other.
Though the events Herodotus recorded have faded with time, the fact is The West is still at war with the East.
Herodotus (485-420BC) was the father of Western history. In an age when drama and heroic poetry ruled the literary marketplace, he was one of the first practitioners of narrative nonfiction.
Herodotus sat in agorae throughout the Hellenic world and told his stories for drachmas. In his time, they went over like gangbusters: and they still do!
Tom Cayler is an OBIE-wining actor and a Screenwriting Fellow with the New York Foundation for the Arts. His award winning one-man play, Men Die Soonerwas filmed and broadcast by PBS. Tom spent six months on the Guiding Light before he was thrown out of an airplane. His short story, “The Little Black Dots,” was included in Michael Kimmel’s Men Confront Pornography (Crown). His first book, written with his son, Cai Marshall, Omega to Alpha: Love with the Perfect Robot, is available as an e-book on Amazon.com
