Greek Tragedy

YES WAS VERY GOOD AND INFORMATIVE. expanding about comedy and tragety

Professor Vandiver is an incredible lecturer-highly organized, enthusiastic and very clear. She provides an overview of Greek tragedy and how few of the plays have come down to us. She focuses on the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides since these are very good and have some overlap in subject matter. She also describes the competitions for which the plays were written and the physical layout of the Greek theaters where the plays were produced ~2,500 years ago. We highly recommend this course.

as with her other courses...the information is all there presented with energy and skill. Didn't want it to end

These impeccably prepared lectures make Greek tragedies fathomable by familiarizing us with the historical and social background. I had assumed that we'd read the plays as part of the course, and the course does cover some major plot lines, but really the course's purpose is to prepare us to read the plays on our own by acquainting us with the situation in Greece at the time these plays were presented. Thanks to Prof. Vandiver's complete knowledge and obvious prior experience teaching this topic, her lectures were always fascinating and clear as day.

This is both enjoyable and informative for fans of Greek tragedies and tragedians. A must for the collection.

I am learning a lot and the I fee like I am back in the university

In all her courses E. Vandiver is a delight to listen to. She has a great structure in the material that makes it pleasant to follow, a very high degree of engagement with the student, but most of all deep analytical skills, to the point where she takes a play and creates a philosophical debate out of the deceivingly simple and obvious story. How did she go from Antigone and a burial to anarchy, social contract and the legal system, is really admirable.. Thank you for another great course.

the instructor made a challenging seminar very accessible and very informative. It was very well organized. I took the two Homer seminars first and the Greek Tragedy seminar was a joy to listen to. A minor improvement would be if Prof Vandiver would comment on the 7 Euripedes plays not included in the seminar, either as Supplementary Reading at the appropriate lecture, or at least why they were not included as Essential Reading.