Late fifth century Athenian society and literature
Next offered in 1996
G J Fitzgerald
8 points * 2.5 hours per week * First semester * Clayton
This subject consists of a study of the era of the Peloponnesian War, and of the relationships between aspects of the work of Thucydides, Euripides and Aristophanes and their political, intellectual and artistic milieu.
Assessment
Written (4000 words): 65% * Examinations (2 hours): 35%
Prescribed texts
Aristophanes The Frogs and other plays tr. Barrett, Penguin
Aristophanes Lysistrata, The Acharnians, The Clouds tr. Somerstein, Penguin
Euripides Euripides III, IV, V ed. Grene and Lattimore, Pocket Books/U Chicago P
Sophocles Sophocles II ed. Grene and Lattimore, Pocket Books/U Chicago P
Thucydides The Peloponnesian War tr. Warner, Penguin, 1972