The following links are to my very own synopses of and musings on Classical Greek and Roman Tragedy and Comedy (most were assignments from CLAS395/CLAS397, under Dr. John F. Phillips, at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga). I have posted these notes solely for your edification and my glorification (or humiliation...). Please, if you care to reproduce any portion of this work, obtain my written consent first; if you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please e-mail me (I do love to talk trash about Classical theater...).

Aristotle

• The Poetics, Summary and Asides

Aeschylus

• The Oresteian Trilogy (and a review of a particular production )
• Seven Against Thebes
• The Suppliant Maidens

Sophocles

• Ajax
• Antigone
• Electra
• Hippolytus
• Oedipus Rex (and notes on scholarly essays on Oedipus)
• Women of Trachis

Euripides

• Bacchae
• Electra
• Hecuba
• Ion
• Medea
• The Phoenician Women
• Women of Troy

James Staub

• The Death of Tragedy, Out of the Spirit of Individualism: New Edition, With No Attempt at a Self-Criticism
• Tragedy as the Divestment of Personal Power in Aeschylus and Euripides

Aristophanes

• Introductory material , based on Kenneth Dover's Aristophanic Comedy .
• The Acharnians
• The Birds
• The Clouds
• Ecclesiazusae
• The Frogs
• The Knights
• Lysistrata
• Peace
• Thesmophoriazusae
• The Wasps

Menander

• The Rape of the Locks

Plautus

• The Brothers Menaechmus
• Captivi
• Miles Gloriosus (The Swaggering Soldier)
• Pot of Gold
• Pseudolus

Terence

• Adelphoe (The Brothers)
• Andria (The Girl from Andros)
• Eunichus
• Heauton Timorumenos (The Self-Tormentor)
• Hecyra (The Mother-in-Law)

James Staub

• The Frogs: A Tragedy
• Madness in Two Plautine Comedies
• MANIKA PRAGMATA: The stigma of madness and its cures in Aristophanes' Wasps