The Baker-Nord Center for Humanities will host Timothy Wutrich, lecturer in the Department of Classics and author of Prometheus and Faust: The Promethean Revolt in Drama from Classical Antiquity, on Monday, March 16, from 4:30 to 6 p.m. in Clark Hall, Room 206. Wutrich will present the Faculty Work-in-Progress lecture, titled “Eteocles in the Hermeneutic Circle.”
Sophocles’ tragedy Oedipus the King is well known. Few, however, know that Aeschylus wrote a dramatic trilogy about the family of Oedipus. Aeschylus’s The Seven against Thebes, the only surviving play from the trilogy, deals with Oedipus’ son Eteocles, who defends Thebes from an army of attackers led by his own brother Polyneices. Eteocles, like Oedipus, is unable to understand his part in the complex matrix of life.
In his talk, Wutrich will consider the success of Aeschylus’s trilogy when it was first produced in 467 B.C. and its place in Greek theater history. A pre-lecture reception will begin at 4:15 p.m.
The event is free and open to the public, however registration is recommended. Registration is available at humanities.case.edu/wpgforms/register-for-eteolces/.