COURSE DESCRIPTIONS

THE HUMANITIES

CLASSICAL DRAMAS

Tuesdays 1—3
6 weeks, Jan. 25—Mar. 8 (no class Feb.22)
$30 Discussion

Do plays written 2,500 years ago in Greece have anything to teach us today? We'll take a trip back in time to examine the human passions that drive the tragic outcomes in three family dramas by Sophocles, Euripides, and Aeschylus and ask ourselves thoroughly modern questions about the role played by genetics and fate, jealousy and revenge, and the imperatives of war and peace.