LF310 -- Greek Mythology -- Fall 2001

Assignments for Tuesday, September 11, 2001

Read the following:

• Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound, pp. 29-55, and notes to those pages.
• I shall give you technical, social, and political background on Greek drama.

• Theatre of Dionysos on the southern slope of the Acropolis, Athens
• Orchestra of the Theatre of Dionysos
• Stage of the Theatre of Dionysos, with statues of silenoi.
• Theatre at Epidauros.
• Theatre at Epidauros.

Dramatists:

• Athenian Dramatists of the 5th century BCE.