Masterpieces of ancient Greek literature [videorecording] / with David J. Schenker.
Schenker, David J.; Teaching Company.
2007
PA3061 .S34 2007
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Title Masterpieces of ancient Greek literature [videorecording] / with David J. Schenker.
Author Schenker, David J.
ISBN 159803278X (set)
9781598032789 (set)
Imprint Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., c2007.
Language English
Description 6 videodiscs : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 195 p.)
Call Number PA3061 .S34 2007
Distributor No. 2390 Teaching Company
PD2390-01 Teaching Company
PD2390-02 Teaching Company
PD2390-03 Teaching Company
Summary "The best of ancient Greek literature retains a freshness and immediacy that reaches far beyond its time and place of creation and speaks to readers and audience members today. In these 36 lectures, we discuss selections from that group of masterpieces, starting in every case with the cultural and historical background of each, then focusing on close readings of the works themselves"--P. 1 (guidebook).
Note 36 lectures (30 min. each) on six discs.
Lecturer: David J. Schenker, University of Missouri-Columbia.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references (guidebook).
System Details Note DVDs.
Added Corporate Author Teaching Company.
Holdings pt.1-pt.3
Suppl.
Series Great courses (DVD)
Record Appears in On-Campus Resources > DVDs
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pt. 1. lecture 1. Definitions, boundaries and goals
lecture 2. Homer I: Introduction to epic and the Iliad
lecture 3. Homer II: Iliad, the wrath of Achilles
lecture 4. Homer III: the return of Achilles
lecture 5. Homer IV: Odyssey, introduction and prelude
lecture 6. Homer V: Odyssey, the adventures
lecture 7. Homer VI, Odyssey, reintegration
lecture 8. Hesiod: Theogony and Works and days
lecture 9. Homeric hymns
lecture 10. Lyric poetry I: Archilochus and Solon
lecture 11. Lyric poetry II: Sappho and Alcaeus
lecture 12. Tragedy: Contexts and conventions.

pt. 2. lecture 13. Aeschylus I: Persians
lecture 14. Aeschylus II: Agamemnon
lecture 15. Aeschylus III: Libation bearers and Eumenides
lecture 16. Sophocles I: Ajax and Philoctetes
lecture 17. Sophocles II: Oedipus the King
lecture 18. Sophocles III: Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone
lecture 19. Euripides I: Electra, Orestes, Trojan women
lecture 20. Euripides II: Medea and Hippolytus
lecture 21. Euripides III: The Bacchae
lecture 22. Aristophanes I: Introduction to old comedy
lecture 23. Aristophanes II: Acharnians and Lysistrata
lecture 24. Aristophanes III: The frogs and The clouds.

pt. 3. lecture 25. Herodotus I: Introduction to history
lecture 26. Herodotus II: The Persian Wars
lecture 27. Thucydides I: The Peloponnesian War
lecture 28. Thucydides II: Books 1-5
lecture 29. Thucydides III: Books 6-7
lecture 30. Plato I: The philosopher as literary author
lecture 31. Plato II: Symposium
lecture 32. Plato III: Phaedrus
lecture 33. Rhetoric and oratory
lecture 34. Hellenistic poetry I: Callimachus and Theocritus
lecture 35. Hellenistic poetry II: Apollonius
lecture 36. Looking back and looking forward.

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