Undergraduate Course: Tragedy (CLTR10003)
Course Outline
| School | School of History, Classics and Archaeology |
College | College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Credit level (Normal year taken) | SCQF Level 10 (Year 3 Undergraduate) |
Availability | Available to all students |
| SCQF Credits | 20 |
ECTS Credits | 10 |
| Summary | This course offers an introduction to ancient Greek Tragedy via reading in translation. Students will read a number of Greek tragedies and examine them according to major contemporary interpretative trends. |
| Course description |
The tragedies read may vary from year to year. The following syllabus is only meant as an illustration of the type of material to be read.
Week 1: a) Introduction. The dramatic festivals; Basics of Stage conventions.
b) Poetics 1: Readings: Aristotle, Poetics (pp. 3-30)
Week 2: a) Poetics 2 b) Modern critical approaches
Week 3: a) Aeschylus Agamemnon 1 b) Agamemnon 2
Week 4: Aeschylus a) The Libation bearers b) The Furies
Week 5: a) Oresteia, conclusion b) Excursus: Athens 458-400 B.C.
Week 6: a) Intro to Sophocles; Aias 1 b); Aias 2
Week 7: a) Oedipus the King 1 b) Oedipus the King 2
Week 8: a) Poetics 3: b) intro to Euripides
Week 9: a) Medea 1 b) Medea 2
Week 10: a) Electra 1 b) Electra 2
Week 11: a) Helen 1 b) Helen 2
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Information for Visiting Students
| Pre-requisites | Visiting students should usually have at least 3 courses in Classics related subject matter (at least 2 of which should be in Classical Literature) at grade B or above (or be predicted to obtain this) for entry to this course. We will only consider University/College level courses. |
| High Demand Course? |
Yes |
Course Delivery Information
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| Academic year 2021/22, Available to all students (SV1)
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Quota: 29 |
| Course Start |
Semester 1 |
Timetable |
Timetable |
| Learning and Teaching activities (Further Info) |
Total Hours:
200
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Lecture Hours 22,
Summative Assessment Hours 2,
Programme Level Learning and Teaching Hours 4,
Directed Learning and Independent Learning Hours
172 )
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| Assessment (Further Info) |
Written Exam
70 %,
Coursework
0 %,
Practical Exam
30 %
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| Additional Information (Assessment) |
Coursework: 3,000-3,500 word essay (30%)
Exam: 2 hour paper (70%)
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| Feedback |
Students will receive written feedback on their coursework, and will have the opportunity to discuss that feedback further with the Course Organiser during their published office hours or by appointment. |
| Exam Information |
| Exam Diet |
Paper Name |
Hours & Minutes |
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| Main Exam Diet S2 (April/May) | | 2:00 | |
Learning Outcomes
On completion of this course, the student will be able to:
- show a command of the primary set texts;
- demonstrate familiarity with the interpretative issues raised by the primary texts;
- understand important modern interpretative strategies and to analyse and reflect critically upon relevant scholarship;
- develop and sustain scholarly arguments in oral and written form, by formulating appropriate questions and utilising relevant evidence;
- demonstrate independence of mind and initiative; intellectual integrity and maturity; an ability to evaluate the work of others, including peers.
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Reading List
Goward, B.(1999): Telling Tragedy: Narrative Techniques in Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides, London.
Gregory, J. ed. (2005/08) A Companion to Greek Tragedy, Blackwell.
Kraus, C., Goldhill, S., Foley, H., Elsner, J. (eds.; 2007): Visualizing the tragic: drama, myth and ritual in Greek art and literature (Festschrift Zeitlin), Oxford.
Lattimore, R. (1964) Story Patterns in Greek Tragedy, Ann Arbor.
Lesky, A. (1965) Greek Tragedy, London.
McAuslan, I. & Walcot, P. (eds 1993) Greek Tragedy, Oxford.
Pelling C.B.R. (ed. 1990) Characterisation and Individuality in Greek Literature Oxford.
D.C. Pozzi and J. M. Wickersham (ed. 1991) Myth and the Polis Ithaca.
Segal, E., ed., (1983) Oxford Readings in Greek Tragedy, Oxford (collection of essays).
Silk, M. (ed. 1996) Tragedy and the Tragic, Oxford.
Stanford, W.B. (1983) Greek Tragedy and the Emotions, London.
Taplin, O. (1978) Greek Tragedy in Action, London.
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Additional Information
| Graduate Attributes and Skills |
Not entered |
| Special Arrangements |
In order for a student from outwith Classics to be enrolled, contact must be made with a Course Secretary on 50 3580 in order for approval to be obtained. |
| Keywords | Tragedy / Ancient Greek |
Contacts
| Course organiser | Dr Chiara Blanco
Tel: (0131 6)50 4620
Email: Chiara.Blanco@ed.ac.uk |
Course secretary | Miss Katy Robinson
Tel: (0131 6)50 3780
Email: krobins3@ed.ac.uk |
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