The Greek tragedy of the fifth century B.C. has left her legacy to the following culture. The figures and the plots of the Greek tragedies have been able to represent contemporary issues, needs and facta. To some extent, the protagonists of the Greek tragedy, such as Oedipus, Medea, Antigone, have become symbols of a human condition or archetypes of the unconscious. The programme aims to provide: a. a general introduction to the Athenian tragedy in its own historical context; b. a terminological clarifications on the concept of 'tragic' (which is not ancient); c. an overview of the mythical events at the base of the surviving Greek tragedies. The course will focus on two tragedies: the 'Suppliants' of Aeschylus, the tragedy that represents the self-determination of women who do not want to have an unwanted marriage, but also the drama of a community that is forced to seek asylum and protection in another land (therefore the first tragedy of refugees); then the 'Antigone' by Sophocles, the tragedy that has been called into question since the '700 every time that' justice '(or the sense of justice) seemed to collide with law, and whose protagonist it has become an emblem of resistance to tyrannies or to patriarchal culture. By carefully reading the Greek text in translation, the paths of the reception of these two tragedies will be traced in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, also through the use of audio-visual materials.