Required Texts -- all at the UPenn Bookstore except the last item

• Green, Richard, and Eric Handley. Images of the Greek Theatre (IGT)
• Lembke, Janet, and C. J. Herrington, trans. Aeschylus: Persians
• Fagles, Robert, trans. Aeschylus: The Oresteia (Ors)
• Hadas, Moses, ed. The Complete Plays of Sophocles (Soph)
• Hadas, Moses, ed. Ten Plays by Euripides (Eur)
• Grene and Lattimore, eds., Euripides II (E2)
• Corrigan, Robert W., ed. Classical Comedy: Greece and Rome (CC)
• Hadas, Moses, ed. The Complete Plays of Aristophanes (Ar)
• Watling, E. F., trans. Seneca: Four Tragedies and Octavia (Sen)
• Course Bulkpack from Campus Copies (available soon)

* Some of you may already own other translations of the Greek and Roman plays that we'll be reading. Different translators will use different wording and pagination. This will put you at a disadvantage when we refer to passages in class and on exams. Whether you choose to use the translations ordered for the course or your own is your decision.

Course Requirements and Grading

	Midterm			20%
	Assignment #1		20%
	Assignment #2		20%
	Class Participation	10%
	Final Exam		30%

Syllabus -- Updated

Greek Tragedy

9/4: Introduction
9/6: Chapters 1 and 4 (IGT)
9/9: Persians
9/11: Agamemnon (Ors)
9/13: Chapter 2 (IGT)
9/16: Libation Bearers (Ors)
9/18: Eumenides (Ors)
9/20: Reviewing the Oresteia
9/23: National Theater Production (video)
9/25: video continued
9/27: essay by Goldhill (bulkpack)
9/30: Ajax (Soph)
10/2: Antigone (Soph)
10/4: Review Sophocles
10/7: Medea (Eur)
10/9: Bacchae (Eur)
10/11: Review Euripides
October Break

Satyr Play, Tragicomedy, and the Critique of Tragedy

10/16: essay on Bacchae (bulkpack)
10/18: Assignment #1 Due; guest lecture
10/21: Chapter 3 (IGT); Odyssey Book 9 (bulkpack)
10/23: Cyclops (E2); Konstan essay (bulkpack)
10/25: Iphigeneia in Tauris (E2)
10/28: Plato and Aristotle (bulkpack)
10/30: Review for Midterm
11/1: Midterm
11/4: Chapter 5 (IGT); Frogs (Ar)
11/6: Ecclesiazusae (Ar)
11/8: Old Comedy vs. New Comedy; Chapters 6 and 7 (IGT)
11/11: Dyskolos (CC)
11/13: Samia (bulkpack)
11/15: Actors from the London Stage: in-class performance

The Roman World

11/18: Menaechmi Brothers (CC)
11/20: Haunted House (CC)
11/22: Chapter 8 (IGT)
11/25: Thyestes (Sen)

12/2: *assignment #2 due in class*
12/4: Phaedra
12/6: Wrap Up
12/9: Final Review