Greek Tragedy and Film

CAS CL 325

  • Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings
  • Historical Consciousness
  • Critical Thinking

Explores Greek tragic myth's afterlife, both directly and obliquely, in cinema and in the modern literature spawning cinema: how certain Greek tragic myths have come to life as film and how "non-mythic" stories have acquired a mythic power in literary and cinematic form. Carries humanities divisional credit in CAS. Also offered as CAS CI 369. This course fulfills a single unit in the following BU Hub area(s): Historical Consciousness, Philosophical Inquiry and Life's Meanings, Critical Thinking.