The ancient world: Greek literature & society: Work and justice in archaic Greece : Hesiod's Works and days. Dogs and heroes in Homer. Triumph of a heretic. The freedom of Oedipus ; The Greek polis: Ancient slavery and modern ideology. The toilers find a voice. Greece à la française. Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War : politics and power. Invisible woman. The Socratic method -- The modern world: Survivals & transformations: The life of a legend. Oedipus Rex. The Greek conquest of Britain. Visions of the grand prize. The scorpion's sting ; On poets & poetry: Subversive activities. Closet modern. Siegfried Sassoon. W.H. Auden. Fortsre's later years ; from Madrid to the garden of the Finzi-Contini: Everybody but Shakespeare. Rmembering Madrid. The Spanish tragedy. One woman's war. The triumph of the Italian Jews.