CLCV 2010
Greek and Roman Drama
An examination of the genres of tragedy and comedy in Greco-Roman antiquity.
2025
Topics
- Intro to Greek tragedy, Aeschylus’ Oresteia
- Aeschylus’ Agamemnon
- Agamemnon
- Libation Bearers
- Eumenides In-class essay 10%
- Eumenides, Proteus fragments
- Oedipus, Antigone Performances begin
- Antigone
- Euripides’ Medea
- Medea Critiques due
- Euripides’ Hippolytus
- Hippolytus
- Euripides’ Bacchae
- Bacchae
- Euripides’ Cyclops
- Intro to comedy Essay 20%
- Aristophanes’ Frogs
- Frogs
Readings
- Aeschylus II: The Oresteia, Proteus (University of Chicago Press) Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King (University of Chicago Press) Euripides I: Medea, Hippolytus (University of Chicago Press)
2017
Readings
- Euripides V: The Bacchae, The Cyclops (University of Chicago Press) Aristophanes: The Wasps, The Poet and the Women, The Frogs, trans. D. Barrett Plautus & Terence: Five Comedies, trans. D. Berg and D. Parker
Prerequisites & course information
Also listed as ENGL 2605 . Precludes additional credit for CLCV 2009 or ENGL 2009 (no longer offered). Prerequisite(s): second year standing or permission of the unit. Lecture three hours a week.