Athenian Tragedy and Comedy
For each of the four plays we read, know the principal characters, events, and the arc of plot, and be prepared to speak to the significance of salient passages for the understanding of the play. The testing for this will be very much like the testing for the Iliad on the mid-term exam, that is, you will be presented with a passage and asked to identify the context (what is going on in the plot just then) and to explain the significance for the play. For each play, you may also be asked to give a succinct summary of the plot.
You may also be asked about the festival context for these plays. For that, see the slides and the City Dionysia handout (included in our BOX folder).
Helpful Summaries:
Euripides, Trojan Women (from external site)
Sophocles, Antigone (from my old Greek Tragedy site)
Euripides, Hippolytus (from my old Greek Tragedy site)
Aristophanes, Clouds (from external site)
For each of the four plays we read, know the principal characters, events, and the arc of plot, and be prepared to speak to the significance of salient passages for the understanding of the play. The testing for this will be very much like the testing for the Iliad on the mid-term exam, that is, you will be presented with a passage and asked to identify the context (what is going on in the plot just then) and to explain the significance for the play. For each play, you may also be asked to give a succinct summary of the plot.
You may also be asked about the festival context for these plays. For that, see the slides and the City Dionysia handout (included in our BOX folder).
Helpful Summaries:
Euripides, Trojan Women (from external site)
Sophocles, Antigone (from my old Greek Tragedy site)
Euripides, Hippolytus (from my old Greek Tragedy site)
Aristophanes, Clouds (from external site)
Pictured at top (close-up) and above: Reconstruction of Greek Tragic Masks
