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Greek tragedy [digital videodisc].

Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., c2000.

Greek drama (Tragedy) -- History and criticism.

Mythology, Greek.

Great courses (DVD). Literature & language. Western literature.

4 videodiscs in 2 volumes (ca. 720 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 2 course guidebooks (22 cm.)

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.

Presents twenty-four lectures introducing students to Greek tragedy by setting the plays in their cultural and historical background.

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