The Creative Reception of Greek Tragedy in German
Students make a special study of Sophocles' Antigone and Hölderlin's Antigone. In the examination paper, a compulsory commentary question will be set from each of these two. In addition, students will be required to answer two essay questions, one from a choice of questions specifically on the authors and texts listed below, the other from a choice of questions requiring a comparative or generic approach.
The prescribed texts for essay questions are:
Sophocles, Oedipus Tyrannus
Euripides, Medea , Iphigenia in Tauris
Plato, Republic II, III, X
Aristotle, Poetics
Goethe, Iphigenie auf Tauris
Kleist, Penthesilea
Nietzsche, Die Geburt der Tragödie
Brecht, Antigone
Christa Wolf, Medea: Stimmen .
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