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    Euripides’ Iphigenia in Aulis

    Euripides’ Iphigenia in Aulis

    FromAncient Greece: Myth, Art, War

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    Euripides’ Iphigenia in Aulis

    FromAncient Greece: Myth, Art, War

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    49 minutes
    Released:
    May 16, 2013
    Format:
    Podcast episode

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    Performed in Athens in the last years of the Peloponnesian War and when Athens had a democracy, Euripides’ Iphigenia in Aulis is appropriately a play about decision-making. In this lecture Dr Heather Sebo traces the dramatic events in Iphigenia in Aulis leading up to the departure of the Greek fleet for Troy. Although based on a myth, Euripides’ play has never ceased to be relevant in terms of its examination of the dilemmas and circumstances in which human beings become enmeshed.

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    Released:
    May 16, 2013
    Format:
    Podcast episode

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    In this subject students are introduced to the diversity of the ancient Greek achievement, which has exercised a fundamental and continuing influence upon later European literature and culture. The subject commences with a detailed treatment of Homer's Iliad and the myth of the Trojan war. This is one of the dominant myths in the Greek tradition and is narrated in some detail in epic poetry, in drama, and in art and architecture. We explore how myths are 'read' in their historical context, especially in the contexts of the Persian and Peloponnesian wars of the 5th Century BC. A variety of sources are treated to enable students to build up a picture of Greek society as a whole.