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GREEK TRAGEDY
CLAS 2302 - Tu/Thur 2:30-3:45
Fr. COTTER: Fahy 231 - (761) 9137
cottereu@shu.edu
Welcome to The Classical Studies Dept. Course on Greek
Tragedy
I. Your first move: SEND ME AN E-MAIL MESSAGE immediately (click my address above)
with the following information (i.e., copy the block of 9 items below into
your E-Mail,
and Fill the form out there), and Send to me via E-Mail.
NAME: (Last name first)
ADDRESS (home & school, if needed):
TEL. (home & school):
E-MAIL ADDRESS(ES): (Include any other(s) you have, besides SHU)
YEAR (fr, soph, etc):
MAJOR:
MINOR, if any:
COMPUTER ACCESS: (Campus machine only?, ‘Home’ Modem?): laptop? desktop?:
LANGUAGES (studied, and/or spoken)
II. GET THESE BOOKS (SHU Bookstore)
A Short Introduction to the Ancient Greek Theater,
Graham Ley
The Oresteia by Aeschylus, Robert Fagles (tr)
Penguin Bks.
Three Theban Plays, by Sophocles, Robert Fagles
(tr) Penguin
Euripides, Ten Plays, Paul Roche (tr) Signet Classic
*The World of Athens: An Introduction to Classical
Athenian Culture
Joint Association of Classical
Teachers (JACT) (optional purchase)
Topics
(for contents of each, click HERE
or on "Outlines" tab,
above)
1 - Tragedy Defined
2 - Democracy, Culture, and Tragedy
3 - Dionysian Origins: Roots of a Genre
4 - Production & Stagecraft
5 - Aeschylus: Creator of an Art Form
6 - The Oresteia: Mythic Background
7 - The Oresteia: Agamemnon
8 - The Oresteia: Libation Bearers & Eumenides
9 - A Master of Spectacle
10 - The Three Electras
11 - The Sophoclean Hero
12 - Antigone & Creon
13 - Oedipus the King I
14 - Oedipus the King II
15 - Two Tragedians, One Hero
16 - Greek Husband, Foreign Wife
17 - Phaedra, Hippolytus,
and
Aphrodite's Wrath.
18 - Euripides on War and Women
19 - Euripides the Anti-Tragedian
20 - The Last Plays of Euripides
21 - Euripides & the Gods
22 - The Last Plays of Sophocles
23 - Other Tragedians and a Comedian
24 - The Tragic Legacy
[ Greek Plays -
links to each]
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