98學年度第 1學期課程大綱/ Fall 2009 Course Description

授課教師/ Instructor： 范吉歐 V. Vagios
課程名稱/ Course name： Sophocles’ Antigone 索福克勒斯的安蒂岡妮
課號/ Course number： 122 M5600
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學分數/ Credit hour： 3

課程概述 Course Description
Sophocles’ Antigone is one of the most widely studied, taught, performed and adapted ancient Greek tragedy in the modern world. Unfortunately, most of the approaches have paid more attention to modern theoretical constructs of literature, rather than to the social context within which this play was originally produced. In this course we will try to recover the meaning of the play for its original audience. To do so we will examine fundamental issues of classical Athenian society (like the representation of Thebes as a negative model of Athens; funeral, religious and wedding rituals; and the political ideology of Athenian Democracy). In the final weeks of the course, equipped with an understanding of the original meaning of the play, we will examine some of the most influential interpretations of the play with a view to discover to what extent they illuminate its meaning and to what extent they distort it in an attempt to appropriate its prestige.

課程目標 Course Objectives
It is expected that the course will help students
build a methodology for understanding and interpreting other cultures;
enable them realize the importance of social context in literary criticism;
foster a critical attitude towards theories and interpretations.

參考書目（教科書）Textbook and References
Sophocles Antigone (Transl. by R. Gibbons and C. Segal)
G. Steiner Antigones
R. Seaford Reciprocity and Ritual
J. J. Winkler and F. I. Zeitlin Nothing to do with Dionysos? : Athenian drama in its social context
--- Before sexuality : the construction of erotic experience in the ancient Greek world
C. Segal Interpreting Greek tragedy : myth, poetry, text
--- Sophocles' tragic world : divinity, nature, society
--- Tragedy and civilization : an interpretation of Sophocles
M. Alexiou The ritual lament in Greek tradition
R. W. B. Burton The chorus in Sophocles' tragedies
S. Goldhill Reading Greek tragedy
J. H. Oakley and R. H. Sinos The Wedding in Ancient Athens
R. Rehm Marriage to death : the conflation of wedding and funeral rituals in Greek tragedy
W. B. Tyrrell Amazons, a study in Athenian mythmaking
J. J. Winkler The constraints of desire : the anthropology of sex and gender in ancient Greece
F. I. Zeitlin Playing the other : gender and society in classical Greek literature
J. P. Euben Greek tragedy and political theory
J.E. Ziolkowski Thucydides and the Tradition of Funeral Speeches at Athens
J. Lacan The ethics of psychoanalysis, 1959-1960
V. Zajko and M. Leonard, Laughing with Medusa: Classical Myth and Feminist Thought
L. Irigaray, An Ethics of Sexual Difference
G. W. F. Hegel, Philosophy of Fine Art

Students will also be provided with additional references to articles directly related to their seminar presentation interests.

評量方式 Grading
4 Seminar Presentations (each 12.5%)
Term Paper of 2500-3000 words (50%)

進度 Syllabus
第1週 Introduction: Antigone and Antigones, Context, Meaning and Literature
第2週 Anti-Athens: Thebes in Athenian Myth-making
第3週 Prologue (Antigone 1-99)
第4週 Women in Athens, Ismene and Antigone as types of Athenian Women
第5週 Chorus Entrance and First Episode (Antigone 100-331)
第6週 Funeral Rites, Women and Athenian State Interference
第7週 First Choral Song and Second Episode (Antigone 332-581)
第8週 Religion, Prophecy and Omens in Athenian Society
第9週 Second Choral Song and Third Episode (Antigone 582-780)
第10週 Citizen Duties in Athenian Democracy
第11週 Third Choral Song and Fourth Episode (Antigone 781-943)
第12週 Wedding Rites in Athens
第13週 Fourth Choral Song and Fifth Episode (Antigone 944-1114)
第14週Public Advice and Collective Decisions in Athenian Democracy
第15週Fifth Choral Song and Finale (Antigone 1115-1352)
第16週 Hegel, Dialectics and Antigone
第17週 Lacan, Psychoanalysis and Antigone
第18週 Feminist Criticism and Antigone