| Description |
12 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guide. |
| Series |
The great courses / Greek tragedy |
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Great courses (Compact disc)
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| Note |
In two containers. |
| Contents |
Part I. Lecture 1. Tragedy defined -- Lecture 2. Democracy, culture, and tragedy -- Lecture 3. Roots of a genre -- Lecture 4. Production and stagecraft -- Lecture 5. Aeschylus, creator of an art form -- Lecture 6. The Oresteia, mythic background -- Lecture 7. The Oresteia, Agamemnon -- Lecture 8. The Oresteia, Libation Bearers and Eumenides -- Lecture 9. A master of spectacle -- Lecture 10. The three Electras -- Lecture 11. The Sophoclean hero -- Lecture 12. Antigone and Creon -- Part II. Lecture 13. Oedipus the King, I -- Lecture 14. Oedipus the King, II -- Lecture 15. Two tragedians, one hero -- Lecture 16. Greek husband, foreign wife --Lecture 17. Phaedra, Hippolytus, and Aphrodite's wrath -- Lecture 18. Euripides on war and women -- Lecture 19. Euripides the anti-tragedian -- Lecture 20. The last plays of Euripides -- Lecture 21. Euripides and the gods -- Lecture 22. The last plays of Sophocles -- Lecture 23. Other tragedians and a comedian -- Lecture 24. The tragic legacy. |
| Performer |
Twenty-four lectures delivered by Professor Elizabeth Vandiver, University of Maryland. |
| Note |
GMD: sound recording. |
| Subject |
Greek drama (Tragedy)
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Teaching Company.
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