Masterpieces of Ancient Greek Literature

All our lives, we've been taught the importance of the ancient Greeks to so much of the world that came after them, and particularly to our own way of living in and seeing that world. Mention politics, philosophy, law, medicine, history, even the visual arts, and we barely scratch the surface of what we owe this extraordinary culture.Course Lecture Titles:1. Definitions, Boundaries, and Goals2. Homer I—Introduction to Epic and Iliad3. Homer II—Iliad, The Wrath of Achilles4. Homer III—Iliad, The Return of Achilles5. Homer IV—Odyssey, Introduction and Prelude6. Homer V—Odyssey, The Adventures7. Homer VI—Odyssey, Reintegration8. Hesiod—Theogony and Works and Days9. Homeric Hymns10. Lyric Poetry I—Archilochus and Solon11. Lyric Poetry II—Sappho and Alcaeus12. Tragedy—Contexts and Conventions13. Aeschylus I—Persians14. Aeschylus II—Agamemnon15. Aeschylus III—Libation Bearers and Eumenides 16. Sophocles I—Ajax and Philoctetes 17. Sophocles II—Oedipus the King 18. Sophocles III—Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone19. Euripides I—Electra, Orestes, Trojan Women 20. Euripides II—Medea and Hippolytus21. Euripides III—The Bacchae22. Aristophanes I—Introduction to Old Comedy23. Aristophanes II—Acharnians and Lysistrata24. Aristophanes III—The Frogs and The Clouds25. Herodotus I—Introduction to History26. Herodotus II—The Persian Wars27. Thucydides I—The Peloponnesian War28. Thucydides II—Books 1-529. Thucydides III—Books 6-730. Plato I—The Philosopher as Literary Author31. Plato II—Symposium32. Plato III—Phaedrus33. Rhetoric and Oratory34. Hellenistic Poetry I—Callimachus and Theocritus35. Hellenistic Poetry II—Apollonius36. Looking Back and Looking Forward