CLAS 244 Greek Tragedy and its Modern Reception
Students will read selected plays by the three major Greek tragedians, Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, as well as some modern adaptations in film, poetry, and novels. Topics explored will include staging conventions, performance, gender, religion, politics, cultural identity, and the modern reception of Greek myth. This is a discussion- and discovery-based course that emphasizes active learning; in addition to frequent discussion, students will have the opportunity to provide reading context to each other, and showcase their own interpretations of texts, through short research projects and presentations.