Greek Tragedy

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Call Number: BOCD 882 Va Oversize
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 6-week checkout	BOCD 882 Va Oversize	6-week checkout	On Shelf

Compact disc.
Set of 24 half-hour lectures on 12 discs.
Part 1. Tragedy defined ; Democracy, culture, and tragedy ; Roots of a genre ; Production and stagecraft ; Aeschylus, creator of an art form ; The Oresteia, mythic background ; The Oresteia, Agamemnon ; The Oresteia, Libation bearers and Eumenides ; A master of spectacle ; The three Electras -- The Sophoclean hero ; Antigone and Creon --
Part 2. Oedipus the King, I ; Oedipus the King, II ; Two tragedians, one hero ; Greek husband, foreign wife ; Phaedra, Hippolytus, and Aphrodite's wrath ; Euripides on war and women ; Euripides the anti-tragedian ; The last plays of Euripides ; Euripides and the gods ; The last plays of Sophocles ; Other tragedians and a comedian ; The tragic legacy.
Lecturer: Professor Elizabeth Vandiver, University of Maryland.
Introduces students to Greek tragedy by setting the plays in their cultural and historical background.

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Excellent course! submitted by valentina on April 30, 2021, 2:50pm This instructor is incredibly good! I have taken all courses here by Pr. Vandiver, all are great. Highly recommend. She is very interesting to listen, gives very interesting information and angles on the material.