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

2. Agenda Question Update Critically Thinking Universality/Particularity Trojan Women Introduction to Play Pity, Fear, Catharsis in… Persians, Trojan Women 1-nov-2011 euripides trojan women 2

3. Question Update Thinking Universality/Particularity Critically

4. Does tragedy change… 1-nov-20114 euripides trojan women From place to place? From time to time? From culture to culture? From place to place? From time to time? From culture to culture?

5. Does Tragedy Change? Critical thinking 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 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? 1-nov-20115 euripides trojan women

6. Trojan Women Introduction to Play

7. Play Facts Date, historical backdrop – 415 BCE conquest of Melos Sicilian Expedition Tetralogy 1.Alexander. 2.Palamedes. 3.Trojan Women. 4.Sisyphus (satyr play). Speaking Roles Poseidon Athena Hecuba Chorus Talthybius Cassandra Andromache Menelaus Helen 1-nov-2011 euripides trojan women 7

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. Sacrifice of Polyxena 1-nov-2011 euripides trojan women 9

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

11. Your Responses... 1-nov-2011 euripides trojan women 11