Greek Tragedy

Catalog description

Description: This class studies a number of plays by the three great Greek tragedians: Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. The genre of tragedy was born in 5th century Athens and is grounded in a very specific context of civic life, politics, and religion. The plays, almost all set in the realm of myth and legend, also deal with important questions of ethics, war, psychology, tensions between the individual, family, and state, and what it is to be human.