Title: LITERARY CLASSICS

PRQ:

Our topic is drama--one of the most interesting and significant literary products of ancient Greek and Roman civilization. Only about forty tragedies and about the same number of comedies survive from a much larger body of theatrical writing, but what remains includes many of the greatest plays ever written, which are not only timeless explorations of the human condition but also vivid expressions of the fascinating world of antiquity. Along with works by Plato and Aristotle closely related to drama, we will be reading twenty plays. Lecture/discussion format.

Weekly reading quizzes; six essays (three short, three longer); final exam

Aristotle, Poetics; Classical Comedy: Six Plays, ed. Robert W. Corrigan; Classical Tragedy: Eight Plays, ed. Robert W. Corrigan; Euripides IV, Ed. David Greene and Richmond Lattimore; Greek Tragedies, Vol. 2, Ed. David Greene and Richmond Lattimore; Plato, Symposium; handbook on classical theater (TBA)