Classical Greek Tragedy: Euripides' 'Phoenician Women' (Spring term) (LIT 12)

• Day and time: Thursday 11:45 - 13:15
  Weekly
• Length of course: 1 term. Spring (10 Weeks)
• Number of places: 14
• Start date: 15 January 2026
• Description:

  This drama, highly esteemed in antiquity and the Middle Ages for its image-rich and eloquent poetry, has fallen out of popularity in modern times. It encompasses much of the myth of the Theban royal house of Oidipous, so well-known from the plays of Sophocles, but it differs in some details from these. Today it is considered rather difficult and the class will study it together in an English translation to reach an understanding and appreciation of it. The required text is 'Euripides IV', Grene and Lattimore ed., 2013, University of Chicago Press, ISBN 13: 978-0226308968.

• Format: Seminar

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• Leader: Margaret Sakellaridis
  
• Since 2006 I have been giving courses in the U3AC on ancient Greek poetry/drama to bring it to those who cannot access the Greek directly.

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