The Greek World: A Study of History and Culture. Episode 16, Greek Drama: Laughter and Tears
(2021, original release: 2020)
Nonfiction
eCourse
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PUBLISHED
The Great Courses, 2020
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2021
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2021
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (streaming video file) (32 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
ISBN/ISSN
12242653
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Title from title frames
In this second look at Greek drama, examine individual plays that epitomize the genre of tragedy, such as Aeschylus’s Oresteia and Prometheus Bound, Sophocles’s Antigone and Oedipus the King, and Euripides’s Trojan Women and Medea. Explore the nature of tragedy, its meaning for audiences and existential function in the Greek world. Then, investigate the sublime comic plays of Aristophanes
Film
In Process Record
Robert Garland
Originally produced by The Great Courses in 2020
Mode of access: World Wide Web
In English