Drama and Society

Ancient Greece: Myth, Art, War by La Trobe University

May 7, 201349:16Education

This lecture examines the role and status of Athenian drama in Athenian society. Picking up where the last lecture (on the Peloponnesian War) left off, Dr Gillian Shepherd looks at the finale of the Sicilian Expedition,...

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