Abjected Arcadias: Images of Classical Greece and Rome in Barrie Kosky's Oedipus, the Lost Echo and the Women of Troy
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Abstract
The name "Arcadia" has a seductive sound. From Virgil via Sir Philip Sidney to Tom Stoppard, through high art and popular fiction, it evokes an idyllic setting characterised by harmony and delight, a scene of youth, perpetual good health and abundance, where the greatest grief is occasioned by unrequited affection and expressed in the lamentations of the disappointed lover. Twenty-first-century drama has its citified and suburban versions of this idyllic but nevertheless anxious classical world – but they are now called sitcom and soap, the worlds of 'Friends' and 'Neighbours'. But when theatre in Sydney, over the past few years, has turned back to the classical tradition, it is not this gentle, bucolic version of antiquity that it has chosen to share with audiences; Australian theatregoers have been presented instead with images of the ancient Greek and Roman periods characterised by violence, brutality, deception, conspiracy, cruelty, torture, hatred, disharmony, the capricious abuse of power, and blood – buckets and buckets of blood. The image of antiquity presented by these theatrical events is more the version we know from intrigue-laden texts like Shakespeare's 'Julius Caesar', the televised adaptation of Robert Graves's 'I Claudius' and the more recent BBC/HBO/RAI television series 'Rome' than pastorals depicting a golden age. The productions I am referring to here are the Sydney Theatre Company's 'Oedipus' by Seneca in the translation by Ted Hughes (2000); 'The Lost Echo' (2006) and 'The Women of Troy' (2008).
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.006 | 0.018 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.005 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".