Arts Undergraduate Handbook 1996

Published by Monash University

Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia

Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996

CHC2230

8 points + 3 hours per week + First semester + Clayton

Synopsis This subject consists of a literary study of Greek and Roman tragic and comic drama by means of texts in translation.

Assessment Written (4000 words): + 60% Examination (2 hours): 40%

Aeschylus The Persians, Seven against Thebes, Suppliant Maidens in Aeschylus II ed. Grene and Lattimore, Pocket Books or U Chicago P
Sophocles Antigone, Women of Trachis, Oedipus the King in Sophocles I and II ed. Grene and Lattimore, Pocket Books or U Chicago Press
Euripides Medea, Hecuba in Euripides I and II ed. Grene and Lattimore, Pocket Books or U Chicago Press
Aristophanes Acharnians, Lysistrata in Lysistrata and other plays tr. Barrett and Sommerstein, Penguin
Menander Dyskolos tr. Moulton, Mentor
Plautus The Rope in The Rope and other plays tr. Watling, Penguin
Terence Phormio in The comedies tr. Radice, Penguin