Masterpieces of Ancient Greek Literature torrent

Category: Lecture
Language: English
Keywords: Ancient Greek Masterpieces
Taught by David J. Schenker

1. Definitions, Boundaries, and Goals
2. Homer I—Introduction to Epic and Iliad
3. Homer II—Iliad, The Wrath of Achilles
4. Homer III—Iliad, The Return of Achilles
5. Homer IV—Odyssey, Introduction and Prelude
6. Homer V—Odyssey, The Adventures
7. Homer VI—Odyssey, Reintegration
8. Hesiod—Theogony and Works and Days
9. Homeric Hymns
10. Lyric Poetry I—Archilochus and Solon
11. Lyric Poetry II—Sappho and Alcaeus
12. Tragedy—Contexts and Conventions
13. Aeschylus I—Persians
14. Aeschylus II—Agamemnon
15. Aeschylus III—Libation Bearers and Eumenides
16. Sophocles I—Ajax and Philoctetes
17. Sophocles II—Oedipus the King
18. Sophocles III—Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone
19. Euripides I—Electra, Orestes, Trojan Women
20. Euripides II—Medea and Hippolytus
21. Euripides III—The Bacchae
22. Aristophanes I—Introduction to Old Comedy
23. Aristophanes II—Acharnians and Lysistrata
24. Aristophanes III—The Frogs and The Clouds
25. Herodotus I—Introduction to History
26. Herodotus II—The Persian Wars
27. Thucydides I—The Peloponnesian War
28. Thucydides II—Books 1–5
29. Thucydides III—Books 6–7
30. Plato I—The Philosopher as Literary Author
31. Plato II—Symposium
32. Plato III—Phaedrus
33. Rhetoric and Oratory
34. Hellenistic Poetry I—Callimachus and Theocritus
35. Hellenistic Poetry II—Apollonius
36. Looking Back and Looking Forward