Class Information

• CLASSIC 160
• GREEK TRAGEDY
• Course Code: 22110
• Quarter: Winter 2009

Meeting Information

• Room: SSTR 101
• Day & time: T Th 11:00am to 12:20am

Instructor Information

   James Ivan PORTER

•  Email: jiporter@uci.edu
•  Phone: (949) 824-8019
•  Office Location: 121 Humanities Office Building 2
•  Office Hours: T Th 1-2 and by appointment
•  Classics Dept., UCI

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This class will introduce students to the three extant tragedians (Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides) through a selection of their plays in translation and through background readings on the conditions and the art of tragic performance. In addition, we will read Aristophanes, the comic poet, wrote two hilarious plays satirizing the tragic poets, and selections from Plato and Aristotle, who developed theories of literature around tragedy (especially Oedipus the King), which became the foundation of later criticism. Requirements: two midterms and a final project.