Greek Tragedy and the Culture of Fifth
HIST 207.3: GREEK TRAGEDY AND THE CULTURE OF FIFTH-CENTURY ATHENS 2015-2016, Term 2 — TR 1:00-2:20 An examination of the dramatic, literary, social, and intellectual contexts that inform fifth-century Athenian tragedy Works and topics to be discussed: • conditions of staging and performance conventions of 5th-century Athenian tragedy • Aeschylus’ Persians and Agamemnon: views of the gods and divine justice • Sophocles’ Electra and Antigone: women on the tragic stage and polis ideology • Euripides’ Medea and Electra: women on the tragic stage and sophistic psychology • Euripides’ Heracles, Helen, Sophocles’ Philoctetes: Athenian tragedy and sophistic metaphysics • adaptations in modern film — Peter Hall, Agamemnon; Woody Allen, Mighty Aphrodite; Don Taylor, Antigone; Michael Cacoyannis, Electra; Jules Dassin, A Dream of Passion; Kirk Browning, The Gospel at Colonus For further information, contact Professor John Porter at: [email protected]
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