İDE220

School of Humanities \ English Language and Literature

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Elective

English

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Undergraduate

Students will learn about the types of literature produced in these periods and read some of the major works produced. Since these works have profoundly influenced western literature and culture and can be referred to in the arts and social sciences, this course serves as a particularly useful background for students of English language and literature.

1. Theater Thought from Yesterday to Today. Sevda Şener. Ankara: Dost Kitabevi Yayınları, 2010.
2. A Guide to Ancient Greek Drama. Ian C. Storey and Arleen Allan.
3. A Companion to the Classical Greek World. Editor Konrad H. Kinzil.
4. Classical Literature: A Concise History • Richard Rutherford
5. Poetics • Aristotle // Iliad by Homer
Oedipus the King • Sophocles
Lysistrata • Aristophanes
Thyestes • Seneca
The Pot of Gold • Plautus
"Coislin's Booklet/Tractatus Coislinianus" • ?Aristotle? translation Mustafa Bal

This course introduces students to one of the most important and influential phases of western literature, Classical (Greek and Roman) literature. aims to introduce literature.

1. Undergraduate level about the basic features of the literary works of ancient Greek and Roman periods to have sufficient knowledge.
2. To be able to produce analytical approaches to these literary works.
3. to emerge in the periods to examine the literary criticism.
4. To learn social and historical background information.

Week 1: Historical, cultural background: Characteristics of the classical period
Week 2: Characteristics of classical literature
Week 3: The epic and Homer's The Iliad
Week 4: The epic and Homer's The Iliad
Week 5: Ancient Greek Theater; Greek Tragedy and Comedy: Aristotle's Poetics and "Tractatus Coislinianus"
Week 6: Greek Tragedy Sophocles' Oedipus the King
Week 7: Greek Tragedy Sophocles' Oedipus the King
Week 8: Ancient Greek Comedy: Aristophanes His Lysistrata
Week 9: Ancient Greek Comedy: Aristophanes' Lysistrata
Week 10: Week: Ancient Greek Comedy: Aristophanes' Lysistrata
Week 11: Roman Tragedy Seneca's Thyestes
Week 12: Roman Comedy: Plautus' The Pot of Gold

• Midterm 30 %
• Final 40 %
• Presentation Assignment 10 %
• Quizzes 20 %