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Greek Drama: Laughter and Tears
Lecture no. 16 from the course: The Greek World: A Study of History and Culture
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Taught by Professor Robert Garland | 32 min | Categories: History
In this second look at Greek drama, examine individual plays that epitomize the genre of tragedy, such as Aeschylus’s Oresteia and Prometheus Bound, Sophocles’s Antigone and Oedipus the King, and Euripides’s Trojan Women and Medea. Explore the nature of tragedy, its meaning for audiences and existential function in the Greek world. Then investigate the sublime comic plays of Aristophanes.
24 Lectures
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Why Study the Greek World?
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Bronze Age Greece: Minoans and Myceneans
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of 35 min
3
Dark Age and Archaic Greece
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of 32 min
4
Classical Greece: The Age of Pericles
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Alexander the Great: Greek Culture Spreads
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Greece, Rome, Byzantium, and Baghdad
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Modern Ideas of Ancient Greece
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of 31 min
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The Birth of the Greek Nation-State
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Greek Mythology: Monsters and Misfits
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Greek Religion: Dangerous Gods, Tricky Heroes
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The Sensuality of Greek Sculpture
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The Perfection of Greek Architecture
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of 32 min
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The Monumentality of Greek Painting
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Homer’s Humanity: The Epic Experience
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Greek Theater: Producing and Staging Plays
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Greek Drama: Laughter and Tears
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Greek Politics, Law, and Public Speaking
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Greek Historians: The Birth of History
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Greek Philosophy: Man and Nature
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Greek Science: Discovery and Controversy
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The Greek Way of Waging War
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Greek Language, Literacy, and Writing
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Eating and Drinking among the Greeks
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