GK4102 Greek Tragedy

Academic year

2025 to 2026 Semester 1

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Key module information

SCOTCAT credits

30

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SCQF level

SCQF level 10

The Scottish Credit and Qualifications Framework (SCQF) provides an indication of the complexity of award qualifications and associated learning and operates on an ascending numeric scale from Levels 1-12 with SCQF Level 10 equating to a Scottish undergraduate Honours degree.

Availability restrictions

Available to General Degree students with the permission of the Honours Adviser

Planned timetable

To be arranged

This information is given as indicative. Timetable may change at short notice depending on room availability.

Module coordinator

Dr J P Hesk

Dr J P Hesk
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Module Staff

Dr Jon Hesk

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Module description

This module increases the student's familiarity with Greek tragedy. Plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides are prescribed for detailed study, and students learn to address questions of content, context and staging in prepared texts, to translate passages from unprepared texts, and to address wider dramatic and generic issues.

Relationship to other modules

Pre-requisites

40 CREDITS FROM GK2001, GK2002 AND (GK2003, GK2004, OR GK3021, GK3022)

Assessment pattern

2-hour Written Examination = 40%, Coursework = 60%

Re-assessment

Examination = 100%

Learning and teaching methods and delivery

Weekly contact

1 seminar and 1 tutorial/lecture.

Scheduled learning hours

20

The number of compulsory student:staff contact hours over the period of the module.

Guided independent study hours

280

The number of hours that students are expected to invest in independent study over the period of the module.

Intended learning outcomes

  • Identify, understand and describe the key features of a range of texts of Greek Tragedy.
  • Describe the evolution and essence of Greek Tragedy as a genre while also showing critical awareness of the problems of evidence and interpretation which attend any such descriptions.
  • Display advanced skills in translating and commenting on selected texts of Greek Tragedy.
  • Analyse Greek Tragedy in relation to its aesthetic, social, cultural and political contexts and the values and ideology of both classical Athens and the wider Greek world.
  • Analyse and critically evaluate published research on Greek Tragedy.
  • Devise coherent and critically aware arguments both orally and in writing on key aspects of Greek Tragedy via a thorough analysis of the set primary texts and the evaluation of relevant published scholarship.