Greek 310 - ADV READINGS GREEK LIT: ATHENS

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: A study of two texts-Sophocles’ Oedipus the King and selections from Thucydides-that cast light on the political and religious mood in Athens at the start of the Peloponnesian War and how that mood was affected by the plague of 430 B.C.E.