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Oedipus Rex
Oedipus Rex chronicles the story of Oedipus, a man that becomes the king of Thebes and was always destined from birth to murder his father Laius and marry his mother Jocasta. The play is an example of a classic tragedy, noticeably containing an emphasis on how Oedipus's own faults contribute to the tragic hero's downfall, as opposed to having fate be the sole cause. Over the centuries, Oedipus…
Tema bersama: Greek drama, In literature, Continental european drama, Open_syllabus_project
Katak
Among extant Greek comedies, the Frogs is unique for the light it throws on classical Greek attitudes to tragedy and to literature in general. It merits a much more extensive commentary than it has so far received, for the establishment of the text itself has rested for over a century on collations which were inadequate and inaccurate. At the same time, its most problematic passages have been the…
Tema bersama: Great_books_of_the_western_world, Greek drama, Continental european drama, Drama
Prometheus Terikat
An ancient Greek tragedy attributed to Aeschylus. The play follows the sufferings of the Titan Prometheus who has been fastened to a rock by Zeus as punishment for giving the knowledge of fire to mankind.
Tema bersama: Greek drama, Continental european drama, Open_syllabus_project, Drama
Hippolytus
Euripides wrote two plays called Hippolytus. In this, the second, he dramatized the tragic failure of perfection. This translation comes in two forms; the first presents a simulacrum of the text as it might have appeared in unprocessed form to a reader sometime shortly after Euripides? death. The second processes the drama into the reduced but much more distinct form of modern print translations.
Tema bersama: Great_books_of_the_western_world, Greek drama, Open_syllabus_project, Drama
Agamemnon
The Classical Department produced the play Agamemon, performed in the stadium on June 16 and 19, 1906
Tema bersama: Greek drama, Continental european drama, Open_syllabus_project, Drama