3 credits
Fall 2025 Lecture Lower DivisionHumanitiesData from last updated 9/17/2025
Fall 2025
Fall 2025 Instructors:
Greek and Roman tragedy from their beginnings until today. Readings in English from representative authors such as Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Seneca; later receptions of ancient tragedy in drama and other media. Course may include performance, theories of comedy and tragedy, or recent and current expressions of the tragic in film and other media.
Learning Outcomes1Understand a detailed historical development of ancient Greek tragic through close reading of representative samples of the genre.
2Appreciate and intelligently discuss major themes in Greek tragedy as they relate to both ancient and modern views of what is "tragic".
3Identify specific examples of the influence of ancient Greek tragedy on the drama of the later western world.
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