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Teaching Delivery: This module is taught in 10 weekly lectures.
颁辞苍迟别苍迟:听This MA module is devoted to Athenian tragedy of the fifth century BCE. This year, we will focus on the drama of Euripides. Apart from the first two hours, which are devoted to a general introduction to the course, classes will be conducted as a seminar, where we approach the problems of Greek tragedy and the play through a close collaborative reading, in Greek, of Euripides' text. All participants should read the assigned text in Greek (about 150 lines per week) in preparation for each class.听 Also, a selection of secondary reading has been assigned each week to aid discussion: participants are asked to get through these selections as well.听
This year, we will focus on听Euripides'听Bacchae. Topics considered will include style, interpretation, textual transmission, dramaturgy, the revenge-theme and the play's connection to other, earlier dramatic and nondramatic versions of the story, intertextuality, staging, metre, and social, political and religious context. For preparation, see the Oxford commentary by E. R. Dodds (still in print).
Skills: By the end of this module students should be able to display improved knowledge of tragedy, its contexts and the ancient Greek language; insight into a variety of important themes connected with Greek drama and its contexts, and the ability to carry out original research on these questions. Students will also practise researching a topic of their choice in a mature and independent way, and will learn the basic techniques of academic research, as well as how to express their findings well and coherently in writing.
Module texts:听贰耻谤颈辫颈诲别蝉,听Bacchae, ed. by E.R. Dodds (Oxford, 1944); S. Mills,听Euripides:听Bacchae听(Duckworth Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy: Duckworth, 2006).
Other recommended preparatory reading:
L. K. McClure, ed.听A Companion to Euripides (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World,听Blackwell: Chichester, 2017);听
D. Mastronarde,听The Art of Euripides听(Cambridge, 2010);
Segal, C. P.听听Dionysiac Poetics and Euripides鈥櫶鼴acchae听(Princeton, 1997);
Module deliveries for 2024/25 academic year
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This module description was last updated on 8th April 2024.
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