Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose

The policy portfolio MPA project is based on placement within a public organisation (or NGO, social enterprise).

Students are placed as a group within an...

The policy portfolio MPA project is based on placement within a public organisation (or NGO, social enterprise).

Students are placed as a group within an organisation in order to solve a problem defined by the organisation together with IIPP staff.

Teaching Delivery: This module is taught in 10 weekly lectures

Content: This module consists of reading extended portions of Aeschylus’ works in...

Teaching Delivery: This module is taught in 10 weekly lectures

Content: This module consists of reading extended portions of Aeschylus’ works in the original Greek, translation of sections into English, as well as discussion of their language, style, and argument. This year, we will focus on the Prometheus Bound. Over the course of the module, students will become familiar with an important writer of Greek tragedy, with other treatments of the myth of Prometheus, and with issues relating to the staging of Greek drama and its role in Athenian society.

Skills: 

By the end of the module, students should be able to demonstrate intellectual, transferable and practicable skills appropriate to a level 6 module and in particular will be able to demonstrate:

a good overall sense of the background, emergence and development of Greek drama,
	an understanding of the methodological difficulties and theoretical issues relevant to the study of classical Greek tragedy,
	an ability to translate and comment upon Greek literature of the period,
	an ability to comment upon the relationship between the different treatments of similar mythical subject matter in Greek literature,
	the capacity to engage critically with both primary and secondary literature to produce innovative interpretations and insights,
	the ability to deploy appropriate evidence orally and in writing.
Required texts: Griffith, M., The Prometheus Bound, with an introduction and commentary, (Cambridge University Press, 1983) (available to be ordered via booksellers).

Other recommended preperatory reading: I. Ruffell, Aeschylus: Prometheus Bound (Bristol Classical Press, 2012); S. Goldhill, Reading Greek Tragedy (Cambridge, 1986); P. Easterling, ed. Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy (Cambridge, 1997)