Greek Tragedy (CL 222): On-line Resources

CLASSICS 222 GREEK TRAGEDY ON-LINE RESOURCES

Origins of Tragedy	The Greek Theater	Readings
Semester Project	Blank	Syllabus

The Origins of Greek Tragedy

"The Development of Athenian Tragedy" by Thomas Martin (Perseus Encyclopedia)

The Greek Theater

Key Parts of the Theater (entries from the Perseus Encyclopedia)

theatron (the theater itself)
orchestra (the Chorus' dancing place)
parodos (theaters entrances and exits)
skene (the backdrop / stage building)

Resources from Didaskalia (Ancient Theater Today)

Links to Reading Topics

Agamemnon	Ajax	Alcestis
Antigone	Bacchae	Eumenides
Hecuba	Helen	Heracles
Hippolytus	Libation Bearers	Medea
Oedipus at Colonus	Oedipus the King	Persians
Philoctetes	Phoenician Women	Prometheus Bound
Seven against Thebes	Women of Trachis	Blank
Fragments	Frogs	Poetics

Euripides, Medea (15 September)

Medea Medea rejuvenating Aeson
Jason
Argonaut Image of Argonaut
Argo
Glauce(3)
Creon(1)
Aegeus

Euripides, Hippolytus (17 September)

Characters (click the name to see the entry in the Perseus Encyclopedia):

Aphrodite	Images (Mythmedia Project, University of Haifa Library)
Artemis	Images (Mythmedia Project, University of Haifa Library)
Phaedra	Nurse, Phaedra and Eros (Perseus)
Theseus	Images of prior exploits (Perseus):
	Theseus in combat with the Amazons
	Theseus abducting Antiope
	Theseus slaying Minotaur: [1] [2] [3]
	Hippolytus

Euripides, Bacchae (22 September)

Characters (click the name to see the entry in the Perseus Encyclopedia):

The death of Actaeon (Perseus)

Perseus images (Prof. Laurel Bowman, Dep't of Greek and Latin, U. of Victoria)

Images (Mythmedia Project, University of Haifa Library)

maenad

Maenad at rest (Perseus)

The death of Pentheus (Perseus)

Semele

Dionysus as bull bringing Semele back from Hades (Perseus)

Sophocles, Oedipus the King (24 September)

Characters (click the name to see the entry in the Perseus Encyclopedia):

Oedipus and the Sphinx (Perseus)

Sphinx

Louvre E 640 (Perseus)

Antigone	Creon	Eteocles	Ismene
Jocasta	Laius	Polynices	Tiresias

Semester Project

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