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- Tragedy as a dramatic genre is central to ancient Greek theatre. A compound of two
Greek words tragos (goat) and ode (song or to sing), tragedy is a theatrical form performed in honour of
the Greek mythological figure of Dionysus. The greatest exponents of Attic tragedyAeschylus, Sophocles,
and Euripidesdrew their characters and themes primarily from Greek myths. Focusing on in-depth analyses
of representative Greek tragediesAeschylus The Oresteia trilogy and Prometheus Bound, Sophocles The
Theban Plays, and Euripides Medea, Bacchae, and The Trojan Womanthis course attempts to unveil the
enduring legacy of ancient Greek theatre.
- Aristotle, Poetics, (Trans. Malcolm Heath), Penguin (1996).
- Aeschylus, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eu menides (Trans. Robert Fagles),
Penguin Books (1979).
- Bloom, Harold, Greek Drama, Chelsea House Publishers (2004).
- Euripides, The Trojan Woman (Trans. Gilbert Murray), Watchmaker (1980).
- Gregory, Justina, A Companion to Greek Tragedy, Blackwell Publishing (2005).
- Kitto, H. D. F., Greek Tragedy, Routledge (2011).
- McLeish, K., A Guide to Greek Theatre and Drama, Bloomsbury (2003).
- Nietzsche, Friedrich, The Birth of Tragedy. Out of the Spirit of Music (Trans. Shaun Whiteside),
Penguin (1993).
- Poole, Adrian, Tragedy: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford Press (2005).
- Sophocles, The Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus (Trans. Robert Fagles),
Penguin (1980).
- Sophocles, Euripides, and Aeschylus,Five Great Greek Tragedies: Prometheus Bound, Oedipus Rex,
Electra, Medea, Bacchae, Dover Publishing (2004).
