For all papers use the Greek text as your primary source. Work with the words and use the Concordance to Alcestis (Marianne McDonald).  Outside readings:  Bibliography (short) 1.  Bibliography (longer) 2.

1. The House of Admetus and Alcestis. Start with words for "house."

2. Young and Old:  Fathers and Sons

3. Rituals (weddings and funerals)

4. The Education of Admetus (learning and ignorance; advice from others)

5. Terms for Happiness or other emotions

6. Admetus and the Arts (sculpture, music, living well)

7. Modalities: hierarchies of existence (Gods / mortals, men / women, masters / slaves)

8. Parents and children (why does Alcestis have a daughter?   Most children in tragedy are boys.)

9. Hospitality (start with xenos and its compounds)

10. Necessity: whatever will be will be, or not

11. Passages:  life to death, and back; gates and entrances/exits

12. The odes:  work on parallelisms in gestures between strophe and antistrophe; metrics and meaning.