Masterpieces of ancient Greek literature

Part 1: Lecture 1. Definitions, boundaries and goals

lecture 2. Homer I

introduction to epic and Iliad

lecture 3. Homer II

Iliad, the wrath of Achilles

lecture 4. Homer III

Ilian, the return of Achilles

lecture 5. Homer IV

Odyssey, introduction and prelude

lecture 6. Homer V

Odyssey, the adventures

lecture 7. Homer VI

Odyssey, reintegration

lecture 8. Hesiod

Theogony and works and days

lecture 9. Homeric hymns

lecture 10. Lyric poetry I

Archilochus and Solon

lecture 11. Lyric poetry II

Sappho and Alcaeus

lecture 12. Tragedy

contexts and conventions.

Part 2: Lecture 13. Aeschylus I

Persians

lecture 14. Aeschylus II

Agamemnon

lecture 15. Aeschylus III

libation bearers and Eumenides

lecture 16. Sophocles I

Ajax and Philoctetes

lecture 17. Sophocles II

Oedipus the King

lecture 18. Sophocles III

Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone

lecture 19. Euripides I

Electra, Orestes, Trojan women

lecture 20. Euripides II

Medea and Hippolytus

lecture 21. Euripides III

the Bacchae

lecture 22. Aristophanes I

introduction to old comedy

lecture 23. Aristophanes II

Acharnians and Lysistrata

lecture 24. Aristophanes III

the frogs and the clouds.

Part 3: Lecture 25. Herodotus I

introduction to history

lecture 26. Herodotus II

the Persian Wars

lecture 27. Thucydides I

the Peloponnesian War

lecture 28. Thucydides II

books 1-5

lecture 29. Thucydides III

books 6-7

lecture 30. Plato I

the philosopher as literary author

lecture 31. Plato II

Symposium

lecture 32. Plato III

Phaedrus

lecture 33. Rhetoric and oratory

lecture 34. Hellenistic poetry I

Callimachus and Theocritus

lecture 35. Hellenistic poetry II

Apollonius

lecture 36. Looking back and looking forward.