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Institute of Continuing Education (ICE)

Alert:

Because of the impact worldwide of the coronavirus (COVID-19), the 2020 International Summer Programmes have been replaced by the Virtual Summer Festival of Learning

This course is part of the Literature Summer Programme Term II 2020.

To apply for this course, please enrol on the programme above, and then select the courses you wish to study. For more information about Summer Programmes please visit our Summer Programmes Page.

Sophocles was the most successful playwright in the history of Ancient Greece, credited with some 120 plays and two dozen victories in the famous 5th-century drama competitions in Athens. This course will survey the seven plays that survive: Ajax, Antigone, Women of Trachis, Oedipus the King, Electra, Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus.

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Course dates

26 Jul 2020 to 01 Aug 2020

Course duration

1 week

Apply by

06 Jul 2020

Course director

Academic Directors, Course Directors and Tutors are subject to change, when necessary.

Venue

International Summer Programmes
Sidgwick Site
Cambridge
United Kingdom
01223 760850

Qualifications / Credits

Non-accredited

Teaching sessions

Meetings: 5

Course code

Hd2