Section: Week 4: Sophocles, Antigone / Racine, Phaedra | COM507-European Tragedy-2024/25

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Code: COM507

Level: 5

Credit Value: 15

Semester: B

Teaching

Module Convenor

Adrian Armstrong

a.armstrong@qmul.ac.uk

Schedule

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Section outline

Before Week 5, please read Phaedra.
- Select activity The Antigone Inquiry Session 2
  
  The Antigone Inquiry Session 2 Page
  
  This is the second session of the inquiry into what led to the outcomes represented in Antigone. One group will act as the inquiry panel; others will each represent a different major thinker, who has been called as an expert witness. This page sets out the briefs for each group.
- Select activity Lecture slides
  
  Lecture slides File
  
  7.8 MB
- Select activity Gender and death in classical tragedy - key quotations from Nicole Loraux
  
  Gender and death in classical tragedy - key quotations from Nicole Loraux Page
  
  Some important quotations from Tragic Ways of Killing A Woman by Nicole Loraux, a leading scholar of ancient Greece. Very relevant to both Antigone and Phaedra.