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Course Description

We pause our multi-year seminar on the Iliad to read a play by Euripides on the aftermath of the fall of Troy – one of several plays he composed on the subject. Composed & performed in 415 BCE, the play involves as protagonists three of the women we encountered in Iliad 6: Hecuba, Helen & Andromache. We’ll translate approximately 140 lines of the play a week, addressing questions of grammar, rhetoric and spectacle as well as the controversy over whether the play references contemporaneous events of the ongoing Peloponnesian War.

Prerequisites: At least two years of previous ancient Greek instruction - whether epic, classical, or koine.

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