Masterpieces of Ancient Greek Literature CD Lecture Set

Course Lecture Titles

Definitions, Boundaries, and Goals

Homer IIntroduction to Epic and Iliad

Homer IIIliad, The Wrath of Achilles

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Homer IIIIliad, The Return of Achilles

Homer IVOdyssey, Introduction and Prelude

Homer VOdyssey, The Adventures

Homer VIOdyssey, Reintegration

HesiodTheogony and Works and Days

Homeric Hymns

Lyric Poetry IArchilochus and Solon

Lyric Poetry IISappho and Alcaeus

TragedyContexts and Conventions

Aeschylus IPersians

Aeschylus IIAgamemnon

Aeschylus IIILibation Bearers and Eumenides

Sophocles IAjax and Philoctetes

Sophocles IIOedipus the King

Sophocles IIIOedipus at Colonus and Antigone

Euripides IElectra, Orestes, Trojan Women

Euripides IIMedea and Hippolytus

Euripides IIIThe Bacchae

Aristophanes IIntroduction to Old Comedy

Aristophanes IIAcharnians and Lysistrata

Aristophanes IIIThe Frogs and The Clouds

Herodotus IIntroduction to History

Herodotus IIThe Persian Wars

Thucydides IThe Peloponnesian War

Thucydides IIBooks 15

Thucydides IIIBooks 67

Plato IThe Philosopher as Literary Author

Plato IISymposium

Plato IIIPhaedrus

Rhetoric and Oratory

Hellenistic Poetry ICallimachus and Theocritus

Hellenistic Poetry IIApollonius

Looking Back and Looking Forward

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