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Greek drama (Tragedy) Greek drama (Tragedy) Film adaptations Greek drama (Tragedy) History and criticism II, King of Macedonia Philip 382 B.C.-336 B.C Literature Philosophy Mythology, Greek Philosophy, Ancient Schliemann, Heinrich 1822-1890 Socrates the Great Alexander 356 B.C.-323 B.CSummary: Why do the ancient Greeks occupy such a prominent place in conceptions of Western culture and identity? The Greeks are a source of much that we esteem: democracy, philosophy, tragedy, epic and lyric poetry, history-writing, ideals of athletic competition, aesthetic sensibilities, and more. Spanning roughly 1,000 years, the lectures cover the Late Bronze Age (1500 B.C.E.) to the time of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 1998
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 938 MCICall number: DVD 938 MIC
Summary: The Stratford, Ontario, Shakespearean Festival Players, speaking through Greek-style masks, present the tragedy of Oedipus, who, having unwittingly slain his father and unknowingly married his mother, is driven by the plague that has swept through his kingdom to track down the evildoer who has polluted his land and its people.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS OEDVandiver, Elizabeth
Summary: Introduces students to Greek tragedy by setting the plays in their cultural and historical background.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2001
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 882 VANEuripides.
Contents: 1. Medea. Hecuba. Andromache. The Bacchae -- 2. Hippolytus. Suppliant women. Helen. Electra. Cyclops -- 3. Alcestis. Daughters of Troy. The Phoenician women. Iphigenia at Aulis. Rhesus. -- 4. Ion. Children of Heracles. The madness of Heracles. Iphigenia in Tauris. Orestes.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: University of Pennsylvania Press 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 882.01 EURCritchley, Simon
Summary: "From the curator of The New York Times's "The Stone," a provocative and timely exploration into tragedy--how it articulates conflicts and contradiction that we need to address in order to better understand the world we live in. We might think we are through with the past, but the past isn't through with us. Tragedy permits us to come face to face with what we do not know about ourselves but...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2019