This page itemises the extracts from ‘classic’ texts, together with samples from introductions to some of these texts or synopses of them, for courses in WESTERN ART: 1300-1800.
Hesiod Theogony and Homeric Hymns: Aphrodite
Gantz, Extracts regarding The Birth of Aphrodite
‘Apollo and Cyclops’ from Aeschylus.
From ‘Introduction’ to Aeneid by Bernard Knox.
From ‘Introduction’ to Oresteia by W.B. Stanford.
‘The Judgement of Paris’ from Robert Graves.
Excellent, Allen. Thomas, a classicist, enjoyed it too. Some of these themes he is covering in his own WEA course this term, on Iconic Women in Greece and Rome!
Very many thanks for your excellent lectures and the excellent standard you afford us. Really keeps the grey matter in tip-top action.