CLASSICS 103 – Links
General:
Glossary of names:
Not sure exactly who Aegisthus is?
This glossary has short biographies and family trees
http://www.oup-usa.org/sc/0195143388/glossaries/
Glossary of terms:
Terms to do with ancient theater (both architectural and
literary terms)
http://www.usask.ca/antharch/cnea/CourseNotes/Glossary.html
Introduction to Greek theatre:
A great collection of resources: check out esp. sections 4
(Greek theaters) and 5 (structure of plays)
http://academic.reed.edu/humanities/110Tech/Theater.html#Theaters
Staging an ancient play:
This amusing piece describes from start to finish the
process of staging a production in Athens
http://academic.reed.edu/humanities/110Tech/staging.html
Introduction to Greek stagecraft:
http://www.didaskalia.net/studyarea/greekstagecraft.html
Introduction to Roman stagecraft:
http://www.didaskalia.net/studyarea/romanstagecraft.html
Images of the theater:
Photographs and 3D models of Greek and Roman theaters,
images of the theater in ancient art
http://www.usask.ca/antharch/cnea/skenotheke.html
Performances of ancient drama through the ages:
Documents past and present performances of ancient drama.
Look at the images and links sections
http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/links.htm
Bibliographies on ancient drama:
Both of these web pages offer extensive (though, of course,
not comprehensive) bibliographies:
http://duke.usask.ca/~porterj/Biblios/PorterDramaBib.html
- biblios
http://www.stoa.org/dio-bin/diobib?drama
Orestes
in a desperate bid to fend off the Furies
Week by week:
Week 1
Background information about Aeschylus (listed as
entry no. 4):
Especially useful are the sections on the Life of Aeschylus,
Career, and Importance and Influence of Aeschylus
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0004%3Aid%3Daeschylus-4
Week 3
Background information about Sophocles (listed as
entry no. 3):
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0004&layout=&loc=sophocles
Week 4
Background information about Euripides:
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0004&layout=&loc=Euripides
Week 6
Background information about Aristophanes:
Comedy and war:
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0009&query=head%3D%23242
Aristophanes’ Birds depicted on a vase-painting:
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/image?lookup=1990.05.0187
Week 8
Background information about Menander:
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0062%3Aid%3Dmenander
Masks for New Comedy (Menander):
A very sleek website, with 360° view of masks
http://www.iah.arts.gla.ac.uk/masks/
Week 10
Background information about Plautus:
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0062&layout=&loc=plautus
Week 12
Background information about Terence:
http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0062%3Aid%3Dterentius-afer
Week 13
Background information about Shakespeare (and gateway to
many resources):
Comprehensive site dedicated to the study of Eugene O’Neill: