Description

Note: This class is completed, but you may work through the course at your own pace. After you purchase the class, you will receive a link to the virtual classroom.

Instructor: Thomas Banks

The plays of the ancient Greeks are the first great examples of dramatic literature known to us, and the reading of them is a lasting pleasure and profit to the mind. Thomas Banks hopes that you will join him this coming June when he will teach and interpret Sophocles’ Ajax, Euripides’ Alcestis, and Aristophanes’ The Clouds, describing along the way the religious origins of Greek drama, the achievements of the Athenian tragic and comic poets, and the place of their works in the spiritual context of their age.

Texts:

Ajax by Sophocles (link provided for public domain translation)

Alcestis by Euripides (link provided for public domain translation)

The Clouds by Aristophanes (link provided for public domain translation)

This is a reading-only class.