With Professor Joel Relihan. This course will meet on March 4, 11, 18, and 25.

Joel Relihan, Professor of Greek, Latin and Mediterranean Studies at Wheaton College, will be offering a four-lecture series this spring about the fall of the city of Troy. The first lecture will present an overview of the mythology of this most famous of all Greco-Roman stories; the others will look at Troy through the windows of three Greek tragedies: Philoctetes (by Sophocles), how the bow that won the war was stolen; The Trojan Women (by Euripides), the horrors endured by Trojan women and children after the capture of the city; and Agamemnon (by Aeschylus), how the commander of the Greek expeditionary forces returned home victorious to the wife who was waiting patiently for ten years to murder him. There will be time for discussion after each presentation: Why do the Greeks make their victory look so bad?