CLAS 4375:  GENDER AND RACE IN ANCIENT GREEK MYTHS

TOPIC 4--PATRIARCHY AND MARRIAGE

ASSIGNMENTS FOR TOPIC 4

 
[R] Morford and Lenardon, Ch. 3
[R]  Euripides, Alcestis (contemporary translation)
[R]  Before Greek Drama 
 [O]   RECREATING THE THEATER OF DIONYSOS IN ATHENS   [1] 
GREEK STAGECRAFT   [1] 
[O]   Diagram of women choruses [O] The Greek Wedding Ceremony, by Jennifer Powers, Tufts U.

MON  9/11:
4.1 The supreme "holy couple": Zeus and Hera. Male power and female danger of subversion.

 WED 9/13:
 2.2 Introduction to the theatre and to Euripides, Alcestis

 FRI  9/15:
2.3 Discussion of Euripides, Alcestis

Notes
[1]  These are links to Didaskalia: Ancient Theater Today / University of Warwick, eds. S. Goetsch and C.W.Marshall.
 

ADVANCED READINGS FOR TOPIC 4

[A/O] O'Brien, Joan V., The Transformation of Hera.  A Study of Ritual, Hero, and the Goddess in the Iliad.  Lanham, 1993, pp. 167-209