Aeschylus

Prometheus Bound - Prometheus pays for defying the gods for the sake of mankind

Seven Against Thebes - After Antigone (a brief note)

Aristophanes

The Clouds - A send up of education

Plutus - A classic story about the redistribution of wealth

Thesmophoriazusae - Women Celebrating the Festival of the Thesmophoria

Euripides

The Bacchae - A frightening study of the beauty and horror of religious ecstasy

Hecuba - After the Trojan War

Sophocles

Antigone - The struggle between state and religion

Electra - A tale of revenge in a disfunctional family

Oedipus at Colonus - The follow up to Oedipus Rex and the predecessor of the story of Antigone

Oedipus Rex - He kills his father and marries his mother 

 

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Illinois Humanities Council

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