The Greek World: A Study of History and Culture. Episode 16, Greek Drama: Laughter and Tears
2021
Computer Files, Websites
In this second look at Greek drama, examine individual plays that epitomize the genre of tragedy, such as Aeschylus’s Oresteia and Prometheus Bound, Sophocles’s Antigone and Oedipus the King, and Euripides’s Trojan Women and Medea. Explore the nature of tragedy, its meaning for audiences and existential function in the Greek world. Then, investigate the sublime comic plays of Aristophanes.
Main title:
Author:
Great Courses, The, film directorGarland, Robert, actorThe Great Courses (Firm), distributorKanopy (Firm), distributor
Imprint:
The Great Courses, 2020.[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2021.
Collation:
1 online resource (streaming video file) (32 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Notes:
Title from title frames.FilmIn Process Record.Originally produced by The Great Courses in 2020.In English
Performers:
Robert Garland
System details:
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Language:
English
BRN:
430365
Electronic access:
Access eFilm - A Kanopy streaming videohttps://www.kanopy.com/node/11242654/external-image - Cover Image