Greek Tragedy in Context

Contents

Theatre at Epidaurus

Syllabus for FLEN 363

1 Cover:  The Theatre of Dionysus

2 Greek Tragedy: Background

• Dionysus
• Tragic Conventions
• The Theatre
• The Tragedians

For a version of the first lecture on the conventions and myths of tragedy, click here

3 Readings on Greek Tragedy

4 Paper Topics & Hints

5 Aeschylus, Persians

6 Aeschylus, Seven against Thebes

7 Sophocles, Antigone

8 Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus

9 Euripides, Phoenician Women

    Outline of Phoenician Women

10 Euripides, Bacchae

    Outline of Bacchae

11 Euripides, Alcestis

on-line translation of Alcestis http://www.uky.edu/AS/Classics/alcestis.html

    Outline of Alcestis

    Admetus the Artist

12 Euripides, Medea

    Outline of Medea

    Abstract of "Medea in Corinth:  Politics of the Choral Odes"

13 Euripides, Hippolytus

    Outline of Hippolytus

14 Aeschylus, Oresteia

    Tentative Outlines of the Oresteia

15 Sophocles, Electra

    Outline of Electra

16 Euripides, Electra

    Outline of Electra

17 Sophocles, Philoctetes

18 Euripides, Iphigenia at Aulis

    Outline of Iphigenia at Aulis

19 Sophocles, Ajax

20 Euripides, Heracles

21 Time Tables

22 Herodotus (The story of Solon and Croesus)

23 Poetics

24 More Recent Bibliography

25 Aristophanes' Frogs

26 Plato's Protagoras 320c-324d

Links to additional outside Readings:

Thucydides, Book I, Chapters 1-23 — early history (archaeology) http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/text?lookup=thuc.+1.1

Thucydides, Book II 34- 46 Funeral Oration of Pericles http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/text?lookup=thuc.+2.34

Thucydides III.82  on The Revolution in Corcyra III.82           http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/text?lookup=thuc.+3.82

Sack of Miletus Herodotus VI.19-21  http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/text?lookup=hdt.+6.19

The Invasion of Attica and the Battle of Salamis  Herodotus VIII.50ff. http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/text?lookup=hdt.+8.50

Xenophon, Hellenika II.2.3: The defeat of the Athenians at Aigospotamoi in 405 http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/text?lookup=xen.+hell.+2.2.3

 

ON-LINE VERSIONS OF PLAYS

• Aeschylus, vol. 2 (Chicago series) [Persians, Seven]  need a text:  look here http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/text?lookup=aesch.+pers.+1
• Aeschylus, Oresteia (Penguin Fagles' translation)  http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/text?lookup=aesch.+ag.+1   Agamemnon http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/text?lookup=aesch.+lib.+1   Libation Bearers (Choephoroe)                               http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/text?lookup=aesch.+eum.+1   Eumenides
• Sophocles, vol. 2 (Chicago series) [Electra, Philoktetes] http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/text?lookup=soph.+el.+1   Electra http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/text?lookup=soph.+phil.+1   Philoktetes
• Euripides, vol. 5 (Chicago series) [Phoenissae and Bacchae; Electra] http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/text?lookup=eur.+el.+1 Electra  http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/text?lookup=eur.+phoen.+1 Phoenician Women http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/text?lookup=eur.+ba.+1   Bacchae
• Euripides, vol. 4 (Chicago series) [Iphigenia, Orestes] http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/text?lookup=eur.+ia+49   Iphigenia
• Aristophanes, Frogs, Birds (Penguin, Arrowsmith’s translation)  http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/text?lookup=aristoph.+frogs+1   Frogs
• Euripides, vol. 1 (Chicago series) [Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus]  http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/text?lookup=eur.+alc.+1    Alcestis                                  on-line translation of Alcestis http://www.uky.edu/AS/Classics/alcestis.html      http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/text?lookup=eur.+hipp.+1   Hippolytus  http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/text?lookup=eur.+med.+1   Medea
• Sophocles, Theban Plays (Penguin, Fagles tr.) [Antigone, Oedipus Tyrannus] http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/text?lookup=soph.+ant.+1  Antigone http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/text?lookup=soph.+ot+1   Oedipus the King

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