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through suffering, despair?

through suffering, despair?. euripides ’ trojan women 1. Andromache and Astyanax. Agenda. Question Update Critically Thinking Universality/Particularity Trojan Women Introduction to Play Pity, Fear, Catharsis in… Persians , Trojan Women. Question Update.

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through suffering, despair?

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  1. through suffering, despair? euripides’ trojanwomen 1 Andromache and Astyanax

  2. Agenda • Question Update • Critically Thinking Universality/Particularity • Trojan Women • Introduction to Play • Pity, Fear, Catharsis in… • Persians, Trojan Women euripides trojan women

  3. Question Update Thinking Universality/Particularity Critically

  4. Does tragedy change… From place to place? From time to time? From culture to culture? euripides trojan women

  5. Does Tragedy Change? Critical thinking 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? • 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 euripidestrojan women

  6. Trojan Women Introduction to Play

  7. Play Facts • Date, historical backdrop – 415 BCE • conquest of Melos • Sicilian Expedition • Tetralogy • Alexander. • Palamedes. • Trojan Women. • Sisyphus (satyr play). • Speaking Roles • Poseidon • Athena • Hecuba • Chorus • Talthybius • Cassandra • Andromache • Menelaus • Helen euripides trojan women

  8. 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

  9. Pity, Fear, Catharsis in… Persians, Trojan Women

  10. Your Responses. . . euripides trojan women

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