Greek drama tragedy and comedy
The plays of one ancient city 2500 years ago by just four playwrights have had a profound effect on the development of Western drama, including opera, film, television, comedy, and dance. This course examines the social, historical, and political context of ancient Greek drama and provides a set of...
| Main Author: | Meineck, Peter, 1967- |
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| Format: | Audiobooks Audiobook (CD) |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Prince Frederick, Md. :
Recorded Books,
p2005.
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| Series: |
Modern scholar.
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Table of Contents:
- Lecture 1. Why Athens?
- Lecture 2. The play's the thing: how Greek drama came down to us and a typical day at the Greek theatre
- Lecture 3. The origins of Greek drama
- Lecture 4. The tragic theatre
- Lecture 5. Aeschylus
- Lecture 6. The Oresteia: our only trilogy
- Lecture 7. Agamemnon continued
- Lecture 8. Libation bearers
- Lecture 9. The Furies
- Lecture 10. Sophocles
- Lecture 11. Sophocles' Oedipus Plays
- Lecture 12. Euripides
- Lecture 13. Euripides' The Bacchae and Aristophanes' Clouds
- Lecture 14. Aristophanes 2.