Greek 310 - ADV READINGS GREEK LIT I & II

Authors vary from year to year, but they are generally chosen from a list that includes Plato, Homer, Aristophanes, lyric poets, tragedians, historians and orators depending on the interests and needs of the students. May be repeated for credit, provided the topic is not the same. Prerequisite: 213 or permission of the instructor. According to the chorus of Aeschylus' Agamemnon, Zeus put in place the law that learning comes through suffering (A. Ag. 177?78). We investigate the place of that maxim in the Oresteia and in archaic thought more generally through a reading of Agamemnon and selected passages from Herodotus.

Topic: Aeschylus and Herodotus: Learning Through Suffering.