Course title

Greek Mythology and Tragedies

Instructor

Zheng Fei

Instructor’s profile

Dr. Zheng Fei obtained her Ph. D. degree from Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. Her research interests are Greek Tragedies and Mythology, American Contemporary theaters, corpus analysis on literature as well as British Literature.

Course goals

This course aims to trace back to the origin of western culture and literature, broaden students view on literature, esp. Tragedies, cultivate in students the ability of analyzing cultural and literary phenomena and complexes.

Topics

Topics to be covered in this course include gods, goddesses, Homer’s epics (Iliad and Odyssey), 3 Greek tragedians (Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides) and their tragedies.

Assessment

Thesis writing (mid-term) and Examination (final)

Reference books

Myth and Tragedy in Ancient Greece, Pierre Vernant & Pierre Vidal-Naquet trans. Janet Lloyd,Zone Books, 1996.

Aeschylus. I，II.Sophocles I,II, Euripides I,II,III,IV, Aeschylus, The University of Chicago Press, 1991.

Greek Tragedies I,II, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides. Trans. Lattimore, David Greene, etc.The University of Chicago Press, 1953.

The Classical Tradition, Richmond,Highet, Gilbert.Oxford University Press, 1997.

The Greek Myth, I, II1, Robert Graves, Penguin Books, 1960.

Working language

English

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