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Assignments

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1/20

Introduction

Euripides' Medea

Athenian citizenship/Marriage

Lucanian calyx, Apulian, sarcophagus, various paintings, Bernhardt/Mucha, Mucha,

Euripides' Medea excerpts – TEXT at this link: www.stoa.org/diotima/anthology/EuripidesMedeaLuschnig.pdf

Read the following only – lines 1-270 (Prologue, Parodos, Episode 1), 410-660 (Stasimon 1, Episode 2, Stasimon 2)

791-975 (Episode 3, Stasimon 3, Episode 4), 1081-1115 (Astrophic Choral Song), 1322-1398 (Exodos)

Foley ‘Tragic Wives: Medea’s Divided Self’ - Chapter 3.5: 243-71 –

In case books don’t come in time for this session, the bulk of the article is available here: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25010896

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1/25

Aeschylus. Agamemnon - Husband and Wife
The Feminine/Masculine Dichotomy

Family Tree

Kennedy/King Agamemnon 178-83

Oresteia: Agamemnon: 1-66

Th 1/27

Aeschylus Agamemnon - performance exercise - Men playing and writing women:
Oresteia vase, Characters Identified, Mask of Agamemnon,

 Clytemnestra/Cassandra - archaic, red-figure, Clytemnestra/Agamemnon

Clytemnestra – Leighton 1874,  Collier 1882, 1914 (snake goddess)

Read entire introduction to Oresteia: vi-xlvii

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2/1

Aeschylus. Libation Bearers - Mother and Daughter
Orestes/Electra, Orestes murders Clyt - archaic+, red-figure,  2, mirror

Baroque,  Hofuizen, Bacon

Oresteia: Libation Bearers: 67-113 

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2/3

Aeschylus. Furies - Mother and Father
 Orestes at Delphi, (Bourguereau 1862) Delphi, omphalos, Athena w/ aegis

Oresteia: Furies: 115-60 

PERFORMANCE GROUP #1

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2/8

Greek Staging and Martha Graham's Clytemnestra

from Meineck production

Skenotheke: good site for theater material Virtual Reality Theaters
Greek Theater Web Link,

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2/10

Oresteia – Analysis and Commentary

Zeitlin ‘The Dynamics of Misogyny: Oresteia’ – Chapter 3: 87-119

Foley ‘Tragic Wives: Clytemnestras’ – Chapter 3.4: 201-42

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2/15

Euripides Andromache - A Woman in Crisis

Euripides III: 70-119

PERFORMANCE GROUP #2
Greek victory, Leighton, de Chirico,

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2/17

Euripides Trojan Women - Women's Voices

Euripides III: 122-75

PERFORMANCE GROUP #3

Kleophrades hydria – Sack of Troy, views, Onesimus cup
Sack of Troy-Brygos Painter, Menelaos/Helen,

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2/22

Tragic Marriage

Euripides stagings: Medea, Trojan Women

Foley ‘Contradictions of Tragic Marriage’ – Chapter 2: 57-105

Show scenes from some productions

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2.24

Euripides Hecuba - A Woman over the Edge

Euripides III: 2-68

PERFORMANCE GROUP #4
 Polyxena sacrifice, Illustrations in Ovid, Hecuba blinding Polymestor,

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3/1

Women in Euripides, Misogyny? 

Foley ‘Tragic Mothers: Maternal Persuasion in Euripides’ – Chapter 3.6: 272-99

 Zeitlin ‘The Body's Revenge: Dionysos and Tragic Action in Euripides’ Hekabe’ - Chapter 5: 172-216

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3/3

Euripides Ion - The Abused Woman

Euripides III: 178-255

PERFORMANCE GROUP #1

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SPRING BREAK

Enjoy Self

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3/22

Further Observation of Women in Euripides

Zeitlin "Mysteries of Identity and Designs of the Self in Ion" - Chapter 7: 285-338

Zeitlin ‘Playing the Other: Theater, Theatricality and the Feminine in Greek Drama – Chapter 8: 341-74

Th

3/24

MIDTERM EXAM

I am attending the Comparative Drama Conference in LA to deliver a paper

“Sharing Center Stage: ‘Actresses’ (In)Equity’ in the Roman World”

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3/29

Aristophanes Lysistrata - Women in Charge?

Video Portfolio of My Various Comedy Productions

Three Plays by Aristophanes, pp. 3-89

Reader’s Theater of my adaptation of Lysistrata

Comedy Words and Phrases

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3/31

Aristophanes Women at the Thesmophoria - Women on Holiday?

Vase depicting Euripides’ Telephos parody from Thesmophoriazousai

Three Plays by Aristophanes, pp. 93-144

viewing of scenes from my Binghamton University ‘Comedy in Performance’ production

Script of Femme Phantasmagoria (my adaptation of Women at the Thesmophoria)

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4/5

Aristophanes Assemblywomen - Women Rule?

Three Plays by Aristophanes, pp. 147-96

viewing of scenes from outdoor production

Script of Women Rule (my adaptation of Assemblywomen)

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4/7

Aristophanes on Women – Other plays

Fragments in Henderson Three Plays by Aristophanes, Appendix 197-209 + notes, 243-44
Zeitlin ‘Travesties of Gender and Genre in Thesmophoriazusae’ – Chapter 9

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4/12

Roman Theater Technique: Comedy and Tragedy

Women Playing Women: Greek and Roman Dancers, Mimes and Pantomimes

Read Plautus. Darker Comedies Introduction: 1-10

Bosra, 2
Roman Theater history Roman theaters Univ of Sask. 
More ancient Theaters

STARKS ORIGINAL RESEARCH PRESENTATION

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4/14

Plautus Bacchides – Beedle dee dee dee dee Two Ladies

Darker Comedies 13-77

PERFORMANCE GROUP #2

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4/19

Plautus Casina – Everybody (?) Ought to Have a Maid

Darker Comedies 83-141  - Domina’s and Senex’ songs from Funny Thing

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4/21

Plautus Truculentus – Love’s Labor – period!

Darker Comedies 145-208

PERFORMANCE GROUP #3

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4/26

Mime and Pantomime - More Women Playing Women, some Mime Scripts

Mime Script Handout

STARKS ORIGINAL RESEARCH PRESENTATION

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4/28

Seneca Medea & Trojan Women - Compare and Contrast with Euripides

Seneca Six Tragedies, Introduction: vii-xxviii, xxxiii-xxxvi + pp. 71-101, 103-37

Seneca Medea PERFORMANCE GROUP #4

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5/3

And YET MORE Women Playing Women -  Romans to Byzantines

STARKS ORIGINAL RESEARCH PRESENTATION

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5/4

WRITTEN PAPERS ON TRAGEDY DUE

Aeschylus Suppliant Women; Aeschylus Persians

Sophocles Ajax, Sophocles Trachiniae, Sophocles Electra

Euripides Alcestis, Euripides Electra, Euripides Helen, Euripides Heracles, Euripides Hippolytus,
Euripides Iphigenia in Tauris (or among the Taurians), Euripides Iphigenia in Aulis,
Euripides Orestes, Euripides Phoenician Women, Euripides Suppliant Women

Seneca Phaedra, Seneca Agamemnon, Octavia

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FINAL EXAM DAY (1-3 PM – Sanders Classroom 013)

Short Oral Presentations on Scholarly Article Regarding Women in Ancient Tragedy or Comedy