CLASSICS 101: GREEK MYTHOLOGY Spring 2013‚ CSULB J. Mark Sugars‚ Ph.D. Sec. 06 Course #1364 TuTh 1230-1345 My office: MHB - 611 DESN – 112 j.marksugars@csulb.edu Mailbox (Dept. of Comp. World Lit. & Classics): MHB-517 Course Objectives: Greek myths have inspired and influenced literature‚ music‚ and the rest of the arts‚ especially in the
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anti-hero); it involves warfare and the supernatural; it begins in the midst of the action‚ with earlier crises in the story brought in later by flashback; and it expresses the ideals and traditions of a people. It has these elements in common with the Aeneid‚ the Iliad‚ and the Odyssey. The poem is in blank verse‚ that is‚ non-rhyming verse. In a note he added to the second printing‚ Milton expresses contempt for rhyming poetry. Paradise Lost is composed in the verse form of iambic pentameter—the same
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Western Civ. 101 The immediate and long-term legacy of Greek and Roman civilizations Until the start of the Renaissance‚ in the mid 1300’s‚ many of the brilliant ideas and advancements created and used by Greek and Roman civilizations remained dormant. Both‚ Greek and Roman‚ cultures were astounding at finding a better way or solution to handling problems and bettering their community. Most important aspects of a small city were thought out and discussed‚ rather than being decided by one
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Inspiration a. Beatrice of Florentine i. Dante’s love even though both of them are married ii. Guide in Paradise b. Virgil the poet i. Guide through purgatory and inferno ii. Dante’s levels of hell are based off of Virgil from the 6th book of the Aeneid 4. The Divine Comedy a. Written in exile b. Took 13 years to make c. 3 sections i. Inferno (Hell) ii. Purgatorio ( Purgatory) iii. Paradiso (Paradise) d. Each section divided into cantos i. Total 100 cantos 1. 34 2. 33 3. 33 e. Written
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under the Roman Empire much the same as it had previously. Roman culture was highly influenced by the Greeks; asHorace said‚ Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit. (Translation: Captive Greece captured her rude conqueror.) The epics of Homer inspired the Aeneid of Virgil‚ and authors such as Seneca the younger wrote using Greek styles. The Roman nobles who regarded the Greeks as backwards and petty‚ were the main political opponents of Roman heroes such as Scipio Africanus‚ who tended to study philosophy and
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Homer: His Life and His Works Greeks had used writing since c. 1400 BC‚ but it was not until the late 8th century BC that their literature was first written down. Greek literature began in Ionia with the brilliant epics of Homer‚ the Iliad and the Odyssey. These mature products of a long tradition of oral poetry brought together a vast body of divine and heroic myths and sagas that served as a foundation for much subsequent Greek literature. The epic view of humankind had a lasting influence
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T.S. Eliot’s Poetical Devices T.S. Eliot was one of the great early 20th Century poets. He wrote many poems throughout his career including "The Waste Land"(1922)‚ "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"(1917)‚ and "Ash Wednesday"(1930). Throughout his poems‚ he uses the same poetic devices to express emotion and give an added depth to his poetry and act like a trademark in his works. One of the devices used throughout is his personification of nature. The second device he often uses is allusions
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references to earlier authors like Homer and Virgil‚ references that were included in his most famous work‚ Paradise Lost considered one of the most influential pieces of literature that Milton penned. Paradise Lost is an epic poem‚ like the Iliad and the Aeneid which tell a story about godlike heroes
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Characters A. The Hero – Lord Raglan in The Hero: A Study in Tradition‚ Myth‚ and Drama contends that this archetype is so well defined that the life of the protagonist can be clearly divided into a series of well-marked adventures‚ which strongly suggest a ritualistic pattern. Raglan finds that traditionally the hero’s mother is a virgin‚ the circumstances of his conception are unusual‚ and at birth some attempt is made to kill him. He is‚ however‚ spirited away and reared by foster parents
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The Roman Empire was the period of time after the Roman Republic and before the Byzantine Empire from 29 B.C. to A.D. 476. It was the highest point of Roman civilization‚ greater than any prior empires and towers over even the empires after it; it triumphed over the world . The Roman Republic was what built up the foundation for the Roman Empire. During the Republic‚ a small group of people started from scratch and developed their own systems‚ which later develops into the Roman Empire. The strong
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