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CLST 273 - Honors
Classical Tragedy
Fifth-century Athens came together as a state to worship
Dionysos through festival competitions in dramatic art. What forms did
the Athenian artists and audiences develop for such performances? How
did their dramas establish conventions that still function in dramatic
performances today? What did it do for the material they chose to
present -for tragedy, usually though not necessarily always,
traditional mythological stories- to be presented in this context? In
this Core Literature, Honors course we will read translated texts from
the three playwrights who were considered in antiquity as the greatest,
defining their genre. Through discussion, research and writing, and
our own experiments in performance, we will explore how the plays
dealt with transcendent themes like justice and human dignity, within
conceptual systems like gender and civilization, through the
interaction of characters, a chorus, and the audience of a god and the
city.
Monday - Wednesday - Friday, 12:30-1:20 PM
Cudahy Science Hall 313
Dr. Jacqueline Long
Office Hours: MWF 9:30-10:20 AM, Crown Center 553
e-mail:
jlong1@orion.it.luc.edu
Texts
- David Grene and Richmond Lattimore, eds., Greek Tragedies,
3 vols. (U Chicago)
- Richard Janko, ed. and tr., Aristotle: Poetics (Hackett)
- additional resources on-line, on photocopy, and in the library
Schedule of Reading Assignments and Topics
Policies and Assessment
Additional Resources
Writing
Ancient Theaters and Culture
- Didaskalia: Ancient
Theatre Today: a web-site and journal dedicated to the study of
ancient Greek and Roman theatre in performance, and to the legacy of
ancient theatre; in the process of moving to a
new site. Edited by Sallie
Goetsch and C. W. Marshall.
- Dr.
J's Illustrated Greek Theater: images and explanation of the parts
of a Greek theater, by Dr. Janice Siegel of Illinois State University.
- Index of Vital Information on
Roman
Theatres, including a rich array of links; all highly relevant to
us, since the Greek world became part of the Roman world and many
Greek theaters continued to be used and were rebuilt during the Roman
period. Part of
Lacus
Curtius, a treasurehouse of on-line resources for Roman
archaeology, compiled by Bill Thayer.
- Perseus Project:
an evolving digital library for the study of the Greek and Roman worlds.
- Diotima: a clearing-house of resources
on the Internet for the study of women and gender in the ancient world:
including much that is relevant to Greek tragedy.
Revised 10 December 2001 by
jlong1@orion.it.luc.edu
http://www.luc.edu/depts/classics/