Euripides's *Medea*

We shall be studying the play in James Morwood's translation in Medea and other plays (Oxford World's Classics, 2008. ISBN-10 0199537968/ ISBN-13 978-0199537969).

Course programme

Friday 2 October 2015

Please plan to arrive between 16:30 and 18:30. You can meet other course members in the bar which opens at 18:15. Tea and coffee making facilities are available in the study bedrooms.

19:00 Dinner
20:30 Taking Bearings: Euripides, ‘the most tragic of the poets’; the Chorus; Greeks and barbarians, Athenocentrism (lines 824-65), etc.
22:00 Terrace bar open for informal discussion

Saturday 3 October 2015

07:30 Breakfast
09:00 Lines 1-270: Introducing Medea
10:30 Coffee
11:00 271-823: Medea and three men
12:30 Free
13:00 Lunch
14:00 Free
16:00 Tea
16:30 866—1292: Medea, murderess and infanticide
18:00 Free
18:30 Dinner
20:00 Pasolini’s film Medea with Maria Callas
21:30 Terrace bar open for informal discussion

Sunday 4 October 2015

07:30 Breakfast
09:00 1293-end: Medea triumphant
10:30 Coffee
11:00 Summing up
12:30 Free
12:45 Lunch

The course will disperse after lunch