Recommended Nagy reading online about myth and the Olympics. Continue discussion of the hero and the heroine, with focus on Chapter 10. Additonal required Odyssey readings on-line. Recommended Nagy reading on-line about Odysseus and Achilles. The Oresteia and civilization.
Antigone discussion continues into next week.
Medea Chapter 17. Hypotheses and Selected Scholia to Euripides' Medea. Comparative discussion of Antigone and Medea.