Course No. 217 (24 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture) Taught by Elizabeth Vandiver Whitman College Ph.D., The University of Texas at Austin 1. Tragedy Defined 2. Democracy, Culture, and Tragedy 3. Roots of a Genre 4. Production and Stagecraft 5. Aeschylus—Creator of an Art Form 6. The Oresteia—Mythic Background 7. The Oresteia—Agamemnon 8. The Oresteia—Libation Bearers and Eumenides 9. A Master of Spectacle 10. The Three Electras 11. The Sophoclean Hero 12. Antigone and Creon 13. Oedipus the King, I 14. Oedipus the King, II 15. Two Tragedians, One Hero 16. Greek Husband, Foreign Wife 17. Phaedra, Hippolytus, and Aphrodite's Wrath 18. Euripides on War and Women 19. Euripides the Anti-Tragedian 20. The Last Plays of Euripides 21. Euripides and the Gods 22. The Last Plays of Sophocles 23. Other Tragedians and a Comedian 24. The Tragic Legacy