CLA 2100	Lecture Fourteen: Generic Expectations: Poetry, Tragedy, Comedy, Prose.
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People, Terms, Concepts

• Athenian education and sophists.
• Orality vs. literacy.
• Poetry
  • Epic (Homer)
  • Lyric
    • Archilochus
    • Sappho
    • Pindar
  • Tragedy
    • origins
    • Dionysus
    • dithyramb
    • Thespis
    • Aeschylus
    • Sophocles
    • Euripides
  • Comedy
    • Aristphanes & Old Comedy
    • Menander & New Comedy
• Prose
  • History
    • Herodotus
    • Thucydides
    • Polybius
    • Diodorus Siculus
    • Cassius Dio
  • Other Prose
    • Plato
    • Isocrates
    • Plutarch

Essays

• Why is Pindar's lyric considered emblamatic of tyranny while tragedy is considered the genre of democratic Athens par excellence? Discuss historical as well as social and literary reasons.
• The fundamental orality of Greek society is reflected and embodied in their greatest literary works. Please illustrate this truth with copious examples and discuss the implications for their general culture.