Ancient Greek Tragedy: Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides
Ancient Greek Tragedy: Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides
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The immortal tragedias from AESCHYLUS, SOPHOCLES, EURIPIDES
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Based on the publicly available translations by Ian Johnston and George Theodoridis.
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Table of Contents
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- AESCHYLUS
- SOPHOCLES
- EURIPIDES
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The Legend of the Trojan War
- The Cultural Influence of the Legend of the Trojan War
- The Royal House of Atreus
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Introductory Lecture on the Oresteia, Agamemnon
- Introduction
- The Trojan War
- The House of Atreus
- The Revenge Ethic
- An Important Preliminary Interlude
- Revenge in the Agamemnon
- The Chorus in the Agamemnon
- Agamemnon and Clytaemnestra
- A Final Postscript
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A Note on the Mythological Background to ‘the House of Atreus’
- Family Tree (Simplified)
- Some Comments
- (AESCHYLUS) Oresteia - Agamemnon
- (AESCHYLUS) Oresteia - Choephoroi (The Libation Bearers)
- (AESCHYLUS) Oresteia - Eumenides (Kindly Ones)
- (AESCHYLUS) Prometheus Bound
- (AESCHYLUS) Seven Against Thebes
- (AESCHYLUS) Suppliant Women
- (AESCHYLUS) The Persians
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Lecture on OEDIPUS
- Fate, Freedom, and the Tragic Experience: An Introductory Lecture on Sophocles’s Oedipus the King
- Introduction
- Fate, Fatalism, A Fatalistic World View
- The Hero
- Oedipus the King: Some Initial Observations
- Oedipus’s Self-Assertion
- Oedipus and Teiresias
- The Chorus and Other Characters
- The Irony of Oedipus’s Story: The Interplay of Fate and Free Will
- Oedipus as a Tragic Hero
- Further Observations on the Tragic Hero
- The Appeal of Tragedy
- Interpreting Tragedy
- The End of the Tragedy
- Postscript: Some Observations on the Historical Development of Tragic Drama
- (SOPHOCLES) Oedipus the King
- (SOPHOCLES) Oedipus at Colonus
- (SOPHOCLES) Antigone
- (SOPHOCLES) Ajax
- (SOPHOCLES) Philoctetes
- (SOPHOCLES) Women of Trachis (Trachiniae)
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An Introductory Note to Euripides’ Bacchae
- Introduction
- Some Obvious Initial Points
- The Bacchae as a Punishment for Impiety
- The Bacchae as an Indictment of Dionysian Religion
- The Bacchae as a Choice of Nightmares
- A Note on the Historical Context
- The Mythological Framework: Some Comments
- Brief Note on the Mythological Background to Euripides’ Medea
- (EURIPIDES) Medea
- (EURIPIDES) Iphigenia in Aulis
- (EURIPIDES) Iphigenia in Tauris
- (EURIPIDES) Electra
- (EURIPIDES) Orestes
- (EURIPIDES) Bacchae
- (EURIPIDES) Alcestis
- (EURIPIDES) Helen
- (EURIPIDES) Herakles
- (EURIPIDES) Herakleidae
- (EURIPIDES) Hippolytus
- (EURIPIDES) Cyclops
- (EURIPIDES) Ion
- (EURIPIDES) Rhesus
- (EURIPIDES) Hekabe (Hecuba)
- (EURIPIDES) Andromache
- (EURIPIDES) Trojan Women
- (EURIPIDES) Suppliant Women
- (EURIPIDES) Phoenician Women
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