Drama and Lyric: A Selection of Greek Drama and Poetry (Old Western Culture Reader)

Drama and Lyric is a selection of Greek plays and poetry from early antiquity. It is designed to complement The Greeks: Drama and Lyric, a unit in the Old Western Culture curriculum by Roman Roads Press. Based on the Great Books of western civilization, Old Western Culture guides students through the literature, history, theology, and philosophy of the West, and does so from a Christian perspective.

Table of Contents:

• The Agamemnon by Aeschylus,
• The Libation Bearers by Aeschylus,
• The Eumenides by Aeschylus,
• Oedipus the King by Sophocles,
• Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles,
• Antigone by Sophocles,
• The Trojan Women by Euripides,
• The Medea by Euripides,
• The Frogs by-Aristophanes,
• Sappho's Poems by Sappho,
• Odes of Pindar by Pindar,
• Idylls of Theocritus by Theocritus,
• Works and Days by Hesiod,
• The Fall of Troy by Quintus of Smyrna.