This summary of Ancient Sparta is a type-up of my notes on an excellent Massolit course by Prof. Paul Cartledge of Clare College, Cambridge. Perhaps
Category: History & Literature
This week, I’m doing another course with Academus (I did an Ancient Greek one last week), this time on classical studies. I got to choose
Book One Herodotus begins his Histories with an opening sentence that states his intentions in writing the account: he aims to record the deeds of
This is an analysis of the writer Herodotus himself and the background and context that led to his account The Histories. I’m going to be
I loved this play! It was certainly one of my favourites of Euripides’. It tells the post-Trojan-War story of three women: Andromache, wife of Hector
Euripides’ Hippolytus Synopsis The goddess Aphrodite, angered by a man called Hippolytus’ chastity and dismissal of her, decides to take action. She makes Hippolytus’ step-mother
Brief synopsis Euripides’ Medea tells the well-known Greek myth of the woman Medea who, upon discovering that her husband Jason of the Argonauts had left
A list of the courses I’ve completed (or abandoned!) possibly with brief reviews of each! English Literature Stevenson: Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde – Prof.
Euripides was the last of the three great tragedians of Classical Greek theatre, alongside Sophocles and Aeschylus. He was supposedly born in Salamis in 480
Ancient Greek Art The three periods Ancient Greek art and sculpture is primarily divided into three periods: the Archaic, the Classical and the Hellenistic Periods.