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Classical and Neo-classical Literature : Greek and Medieval
(Université Mouloud Mammeri Tizi-Ouzou, 2024) KHELIFA Arezki
The semester syllabus below is displayed in a chronological order, starting with Aeschylus and finishing with Aristophanes. The first lecture consists of explaining Aeschylus’s art by referring to his remaining works. His initiative in performative and aesthetic creativity was to be emulated and enriched by Sophocles. And always from a chronological perspective, readings and discussions of Euripides’s and Aristophanes’s plays will follow during this same semester. The reason for arranging this module’s program in a chronological pattern rather than any other is that it is intended to indicate some very significant aesthetic changes in the historical development of Greek Tragedy as art. As for the way all of these masterpieces will be read and commented, it is relevant to make reference to Aristotle’s aesthetic characteristics about Greek tragedy in order to make students re-explore the Greek myths and assimilate the inextricable links between the selected plays and the aesthetic principles of Greek tragedy as defined by Aristotle. Some of these principles, as explained in the first lecture/lesson, will constitute a core point to this module’s teaching over the whole semester. Other appeals to modern philosophical perspectives might also be made for the purpose of signaling effective influence of Greek tragedy upon modern literature