through suffering, despair? euripides’ trojan women 1 andromache and astyanax
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through suffering, despair?
euripides’ trojanwomen 1
Andromache and Astyanax
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Agenda
• Question Update• Critically Thinking Universality/Particularity
• Trojan Women• Introduction to Play
• Pity, Fear, Catharsis in…• Persians, Trojan Women
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Question Update
Thinking Universality/Particularity Critically
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Does tragedy change…
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From place to place?From time to time?
From culture to culture?
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Does Tragedy Change?Critical thinking
• What’s it for?• teach me how to think, not how
to pass• in terms of techniques taught
• understanding / interacting with problems
• relatable because comparable
• What’s it involve?• read in between the lines
• interpretive skills• questions about motivation
• makes the particular universal
Tragedy as universal/particular
• Question’s point?• universal: will show
connections between cultures• ethical definitions – good
thought experiment• emotional/intellectual
disconnect
• What’s needed?• What baseline need-to-knows?• What appropriate approaches?• Anything else?
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Trojan Women
Introduction to Play
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Play Facts
• Date, historical backdrop – 415 BCE• conquest of Melos• Sicilian Expedition
• Tetralogy1. Alexander.2. Palamedes.3. Trojan Women.4. Sisyphus (satyr play).
• Speaking Roles• Poseidon• Athena• Hecuba• Chorus• Talthybius• Cassandra• Andromache• Menelaus• Helen
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Analysis• Prologue (Signet pp. 460 ff.)
• Poseidon, Athena
• Lyric monody (464)• Hecuba
• Parodos (465)• Choruses in dialogue (kommos)
• Episode 1 (468)• Talthybius, Hecuba• Cassandra (lyric monody –
frenzied dochmiacs)• Cassandra, Hecuba• Hecuba
• Stasimon 1 (480)• Trojan Horse
• Episode 2 (481)• Lyric dialogue (kommos): Hecuba,
Andromache, Astyanax (silent)
• Episode 2 cont. (483)• Spoken: Hecuba, Andromache• Talthybius, Andromache,
Astyanax (silent)
• Stasimon 2 (490)• 1st destruction of Troy
• Episode 3 (493)• Menelaus, Hecuba• Helen, Menelaus, Hecuba• Agon: Helen, Hecuba
• Stasimon 3 (501)• Women’s lament
• Exodos (503)• Talthybius, Hecuba• Lyric dialogue (kommos):
Hecuba, Chorus
Pity, Fear, Catharsis in…
Persians, Trojan Women
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Your Responses. . .
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