Status
A
Activity
SEM
Section number integer
301
Title (text only)
Tragedy of War: Ancient Athenian drama and military conflict
Term
2024C
Subject area
GREK
Section number only
301
Section ID
GREK7206301
Course number integer
7206
Meeting times
R 1:45 PM-4:44 PM
Meeting location
WILL 214
Level
graduate
Instructors
Emily Wilson
Description
In this graduate seminar, we will read several Athenian tragedies set in wartime or its immediate aftermath, including Aeschylus’ Persians, Sophocles’ Ajax and Philoctetes, and Euripides’ Iphigenia at Aulis, Hecuba, and Trojan Women. We will discuss how these plays use or contrast with other Greek representations of military conflict (especially the Iliad), and we will trace the relationship between tragic representations of war and contemporary fifth-century warfare.
Course number only
7206
Use local description
No