Euripides: Three Tragedies, Texts, and Films

Welcome to everyone in the class!

I recommend that before each discussion class you read the entire work to be discussed that day.   You are welcome to use any translation or edition of the work, but references in class will be to the translation by Cecilia Eaton Luschnig and Paul Woodruff.  In class we’ll read aloud and discuss in close detail selected important passages from that day’s readings, comparing various translations and, sometimes, referring to the original Greek.  We’ll be considering how Euripides’ view of his world is unique and, at the same time, how it both mirrors and differs from ours today. 

 Looking forward to seeing you soon, in person. 

George 

MORE RESOURCES

• Athenian Contemporaries
• Additional Readings
• Link to the Cacoyannis film “Electra”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5crCNgAPvAk
• Link to the Guthrie Theatre version of “Oedipus Rex” with masks and chorus: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_L_jzb8yiM
  
  This is the cover of James Tatum’s book, published by the University if Chicago Press, available at Amazon