Aeschylus

3 Credits · Level: Undergraduate

For students with an advanced knowledge of Ancient Greek. This course reads two tragedies by the Athenian playwright Aeschylus, the Agamemnon and the Persae. Special attention will be paid to the language and meter of these plays, as well as to broader thematic issues, including human morality and theodicy, and to the particular sociocultural resonance of the plays in their original context.