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Just 3 more lectures to listen to!
Learned about the 3 different types of of rhetoric/oratory today:
Performative
Forensic (in courtroom)
Political

Listened to lectures 17-18-19-20: Sophecles and Euripides
This is an excellent series of lectures on Audible...worth every penny!
Of all the great plays by Sophecles (Oedipus King a favourite)...I still would have liked to have seen 1994 Broadway production of Medea with Dame Diana Rigg. Powerful play...the character of Medea is on stage from start to finish. Dame Rigg won a Tony Award for Best Actress.

Aeschylusplays are explained in lectures 13-14-15 Persians -Agamennon - Libation Bearers - Eumenides (the furies).

Lectures 9-10-11 close the study of the Archaic period...800 BC to 480 BC, characterized by the emergence of early Greek poetry (Homeric hymns, Solon, Sappho and Alcaeus) and including works attributed to Homer. Why did lyric poetry fade away? This was b/c of the rise of Greek Tragedy/Comedy. We start the Classical period in the next 13 lectures.

Lectures: listed to 8/36 lessons
Homer's Iliad
Homer's Odyssey
Hesiod 2 poems