Brian Arkins is Professor of Classics at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He was educated at Clongowes Wood College and at University College, Dublin, where he obtained an M.A. in Classics and a Ph.D. in Latin. He is the author of ten books of criticism, including three on Latin poetry, and several on Reception Studies: Builders of My Soul: Greek and Roman Themes in Yeats; Greek and Roman Themes in Joyce; Hellenising Ireland: Greek and Roman Themes in Modern Irish Literature.

• 1 A Brief Reading of Greek Tragedy - 2 Irish Appropriations of Greek Tragedy: an Overview - 3 Sophocles’ Antigone - 4 Sophocles’ King Oedipus and Oedipus at Colonus - 5 Sophocles’ Philoctetes - 6 Sophocles’ Electra - 7 Euripides’ Medea - 8 Euripides’ Bacchae - 9 Euripides’ Trojan Women and Hecuba - 10 Euripides’ Hippolytus - 11 Euripides’ Iphigeneia in Aulis - 12 Aeschylus’ Oresteia - 13 Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound

Brian Arkins is Professor of Classics at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He was educated at Clongowes Wood College and at University College, Dublin, where he obtained an M.A. in Classics and a Ph.D. in Latin. He is the author of ten books of criticism, including three on Latin poetry, and several on Reception Studies: Builders of My Soul: Greek and Roman Themes in Yeats; Greek and Roman Themes in Joyce; Hellenising Ireland: Greek and Roman Themes in Modern Irish Literature.

• 1 A Brief Reading of Greek Tragedy - 2 Irish Appropriations of Greek Tragedy: an Overview - 3 Sophocles’ Antigone - 4 Sophocles’ King Oedipus and Oedipus at Colonus - 5 Sophocles’ Philoctetes - 6 Sophocles’ Electra - 7 Euripides’ Medea - 8 Euripides’ Bacchae - 9 Euripides’ Trojan Women and Hecuba - 10 Euripides’ Hippolytus - 11 Euripides’ Iphigeneia in Aulis - 12 Aeschylus’ Oresteia - 13 Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound

Brian Arkins is Professor of Classics at the National University of Ireland, Galway. He was educated at Clongowes Wood College and at University College, Dublin, where he obtained an M.A. in Classics and a Ph.D. in Latin. He is the author of ten books of criticism, including three on Latin poetry, and several on Reception Studies: Builders of My Soul: Greek and Roman Themes in Yeats; Greek and Roman Themes in Joyce; Hellenising Ireland: Greek and Roman Themes in Modern Irish Literature.

• 1 A Brief Reading of Greek Tragedy - 2 Irish Appropriations of Greek Tragedy: an Overview - 3 Sophocles’ Antigone - 4 Sophocles’ King Oedipus and Oedipus at Colonus - 5 Sophocles’ Philoctetes - 6 Sophocles’ Electra - 7 Euripides’ Medea - 8 Euripides’ Bacchae - 9 Euripides’ Trojan Women and Hecuba - 10 Euripides’ Hippolytus - 11 Euripides’ Iphigeneia in Aulis - 12 Aeschylus’ Oresteia - 13 Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound