Masterpieces of Ancient Greek Literature Part 1 of 3

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36 lectures, 30 minutes each.
"All our lives, we've been taught the importance of the ancient Greeks to so much of the world that came after them, and particularly to our own way of living in and seeing that world. Mention politics, philosophy, law, medicine, history, even the visual arts, and we barely scratch the surface of what we owe this extraordinary culture. How can we best learn about these people who have given us so much; who have deepened and enriched our understanding of ourselves? We can look to modern historians for perspectives on the origins of their own discipline, and on the two thinkers, Herodotus and Thucydides, whose contributions to that discipline were immense. To political scientists for the links between the U.S. Senate and the councils of Athens. And to teachers of philosophy for insights to illuminate the deepest implications found in Plato." -- Website.
Lecture 1. Definitions, boundaries and goals -- lecture 2. Homer I: Introduction to epic and the Iliad -- lecture 3. Homer II: Iliad, the wrath of Achilles -- lecture 4. Homer III: the return of Achilles -- lecture 5. Homer IV: Odyssey, introduction and prelude -- lecture 6. Homer V: Odyssey, the adventures -- lecture 7. Homer VI, Odyssey, reintegration -- lecture 8. Hesiod: Theogony and Works and days -- lecture 9. Homeric hymns -- lecture 10. Lyric poetry I: Archilochus and Solon -- lecture 11. Lyric poetry II: Sappho and Alcaeus -- lecture 12. Tragedy: Contexts and conventions.
Lecture 13. Aeschylus I: Persians -- lecture 14. Aeschylus II: Agamemnon -- lecture 15. Aeschylus III: Libation bearers and Eumenides -- lecture 16. Sophocles I: Ajax and Philoctetes -- lecture 17. Sophocles II: Oedipus the King -- lecture 18. Sophocles III: Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone -- lecture 19. Euripides I: Electra, Orestes, Trojan women -- lecture 20. Euripides II: Medea and Hippolytus -- lecture 21. Euripides III: The Bacchae -- lecture 22. Aristophanes I: Introduction to old comedy -- lecture 23. Aristophanes II: Acharnians and Lysistrata -- lecture 24. Aristophanes III: The frogs and The clouds.
Lecture 25. Herodotus I: Introduction to history -- lecture 26. Herodotus II: The Persian Wars -- lecture 27. Thucydides I: The Peloponnesian War -- lecture 28. Thucydides II: Books 1-5 -- lecture 29. Thucydides III: Books 6-7 -- lecture 30. Plato I: The philosopher as literary author -- lecture 31. Plato II: Symposium -- lecture 32. Plato III: Phaedrus -- lecture 33. Rhetoric and oratory -- lecture 34. Hellenistic poetry I: Callimachus and Theocritus -- lecture 35. Hellenistic poetry II: Apollonius -- lecture 36. Looking back and looking forward.
Lecturer: David J. Schenker, University of Missouri-Columbia.
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