This entire course should take us 9 weeks to complete.
Aeschylus
We will be reading from Aeschylus' Oresteia (Trilogy). The Oresteia consists of three plays: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers (The Choephori) and Eumenides. The plays are available online through MIT Classics Archive as well as in paperback from favorite translators.
- Agamemnon
- The Libation Bearers (The Choephori)
- Eumenides
- Paperback edition of Aeschylus I : Oresteia, translated by Richmond Lattimore (Univ of Chicago Pr, 1983, 172 pg).
- Paperback edition of The Oresteia, translated by Ted Hughes (Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2000, 208 pg).
- Paperback edition of The Oresteia, translated by Robert Fagles (Penguin, 1984, 335 pg).
Sophocles
We will read the Theban Tragedies by Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone
- Antigone
- Oedipus the King
- Oedipus at Colonus
- Paperback edition of The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles, translated by Paul Roche (Plume, 1996).
- Paperback edition of Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra, translated by H.D.F. Kitto (Oxford Univ Pr, 1998).
- Paperback edition of Antigone (Plays for Performance), translated by Nicholas Rudall (Ivan R. Dee Inc, 1998, 64 pg).
- Paperback edition, translated by Richard Emil Braun (Oxford Univ Pr, 1990, 101 pg).
- Paperback edition, translated by Declan Donnellan (Consortium Book Sales & Dist, 2000, 62 pg).
- Paperback edition, translated by Neil Curry (Theatre Communications Group, 2001, 80 pg).
- Mass Market Paperback edition of Sophocles : The Complete Plays, translated by Paul Roche (Signet, 2001, 176 pg).
- Paperback edition of Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra, translated by H.D.F. Kitto (Oxford Univ Pr, 1998).
- Paperback edition of Electra (Plays for Performance), translated by Nicholas Rudall (Ivan R. Dee Inc, 1993).
- Paperback edition of Electra and Other Plays, translated by E.F. Watling; also includes Ajax, Philoctetes, and Women of Trachis (Viking Press, 1953).
- Mass Market Paperback edition of Sophocles : The Complete Plays, translated by Paul Roche (Signet, 2001, 176 pg).
- Thrift Paperback edition, unabridged, translated by George Young (Dover Pubns, 1995, 56 pg).
- Audio Cassette edition (Audio Forum, 1996).
- Paperback edition of The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles, translated by Paul Roche (Plume, 1996).
- Paperback edition of Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra, translated by H.D.F. Kitto (Oxford Univ Pr, 1998).
- Paperback edition of Oedipus the King (Plays for Performance), translated by Nicholas Rudall (Ivan R. Dee Inc, 2000, 64 pg).
- Mass Market Paperback edition of Sophocles : The Complete Plays, translated by Paul Roche (Signet, 2001, 176 pg).
- Thrift Paperback edition (Dover Pubns, 1993, 54 pg).
- Audio Cassette edition, unabridged, with Michael Sheen and full cast (Naxos Audio Books, 1999).
- Audio CD edition, unabridged, with Michael Sheen and full cast (Naxos Audio Books, 1999).
Euripides
Our last look at Greek Tragedy will be to read several plays by Euripides (The Father of Modern Drama).
- The Trojan Women
- The Medea
- Electra
- Paperback edition of Euripides, 1 : Medea, Hecuba, Andromache, The Bacchae; translations by Eleanor Wilner, Marilyn Nelson, Donald Junkins, and Daniel Mark Epstein (Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, 1997, 296 pg).
- Paperback edition of Euripides III : Four Tragedies : Hecuba, Andromache, The Trojan Women and Ion, translated by Richard Lattimore (Univ of Chicago Pr, 1958, 256 pg).
- Paperback edition, translated by E.P. Coleridge (Players Press, 1999).
- Paperback edition of Euripides, 2 : Hippolytus, Suppliant Women, Helen, Electra, Cyclops; translations by Richard Moore, John Frederick Nims, Rachel Hadas, Elizabeth Seydel Morgan, and Palmer Bovie (Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, 1997).
- Paperback edition of Euripides V : Electra, The Phoenician Women, The Bacchae, translated by Richard Lattimore (Univ of Chicago Pr, 1969, 228 pg).
- Paperback edition of Euripides, 3 : Alcestis, Daughters of Troy, The Phoenician Women, Iphigenia at Aulis, Rhesus; translations by Fred Chappell, Mark Rudman, Richard Elman, Elaine Terranova, and George Economou (Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, 1998, 392 pg).
- Paperback edition of Euripides III : Four Tragedies : Hecuba, Andromache, The Trojan Women and Ion, translated by Richard Lattimore (Univ of Chicago Pr, 1958, 256 pg).
