Requirement: Literature can often be used as a socializing force. That is, a society will often use a text to reinforce social attitudes, to teach youths, and
sometimes to oppress people. Similarly, a text can often have a socializing effect without intending to do so, or can actually challenge social attitudes.
Keep in mind that the reinforcement or challenging of social or cultural attitudes can happen without governmental leaders, parents/families, or individuals
realizing it.
For this paper, you must use Aeschylus’s Oresteia or Aristophanes's Lysistrata plus one other text from the List and discuss the ways these texts reinforce or
challenge ancient Greek attitudes, ideologies, taboos, morals, etc.
Euripides. (2000). Medea. (J. Harrison, Trans.). Cambridge University Press.
*Homer. (1994). The essential Homer: Selections from the Iliad and the Odyssey. (S. Lombardo, Trans.). Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Plato. (2001). Symposium. (S. Benardete, Trans.). University of Chicago Press.
Sophocles. (1999). Aias (Ajax). P. Burian & A. Shapiro. (Eds.). (H. Golder & R. Pevear, Trans.). Oxford University Press.
Sophocles. (2009). Antigone, Oedipus the king, Electra. E. Hall (Ed.). (H. D. F. Kitto, Trans.). New York: Oxford University Press