Hippolytus: Greek Tragedy Study Summary and Myth The Greek tragedy of Hippolytus‚ by Euripides‚ focuses on the title character’s story‚ as well as many others around him. The story takes place in the Greek coastal town of Troezen. Hippolytus is the bastard son of Theseus‚ the king of Athens. At the beginning of the play‚ Aphrodite‚ the Goddess of love‚ explains that Hippolytus has sworn chastity and refuses to revere her. Instead‚ he chooses to honor Artemis‚ the Goddess of the hunt. Artemis
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According to “Once upon a Greek stage”‚ we can determine that Creon is definitely the more tragic hero than Antigone via some elements: hamartia‚ hubris and catharsis. First‚ hamartia is basically when Creon suffered greatly because of his actions. That caused the lost of his family and the support of his country. Next‚ the tragedy concept of hubris is largely demonstrated through Creon. For instance‚ as the king of Thebes‚ the people all looked to him for the answer. This made him believed
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people. According to Aristotle‚ the hero is not a true hero like Pat Tillman‚ but rather a person who has serious flaws that lead to the downfall of the character. In Antigone‚ both Creon and Antigone share some tragic elements: tragic hero‚ hamartia‚ hubris‚ and nemesis. However‚ Creon is a more tragic hero than Antigone because his character has tragic elements that are absent from the character of Antigone: anagnorisis‚ peripeteia‚ and catharsis. There are many tragic elements that both Creon
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but in the end meet their downfall through an unfortunate hamartia‚ or tragic flaw. Although they all live in different time periods and locations (Oedipus‚ hundreds of years before Christ in Greece‚ Macbeth‚ the Middle Ages in Scotland‚ and Roy Hobbes‚ the early Twentieth Century in America). They all possess a flaw that brings them down. They all have multiple flaws‚ and coincidently are all cursed by one hamartia‚ excessive pride or hubris. Oedipus thought he could solve any problem placed before
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Prometheus for having to suffer for an act of kindness. Prometheus Bound combines hamartia with catharsis because of the intentions of the hero and its elements of Aristotle’s tragedy. Prometheus’ hamartia is brought on because of his error in judgment by granting the gift of fire to the humans against Zeus’ will. Prometheus was a god that created mankind and‚ in order to ensure its survival‚ tried to protect them. His hamartia fits in Aristotle’s definition of tragedy because Prometheus is the perfect
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Macbeth is a tragedy by William Shakespeare‚ which has been performed on stage for a wide range of different audiences since its creation in the sixteenth century. It depicts the endeavours of Lord Macbeth to become king through a series of murders‚ egged on by his wife‚ Lady Macbeth. The reason Macbeth can be called a tragedy is because the elements of tragedy are present throughout. Macbeth also adheres to Aristotle’s definition of tragedy. That is‚ that a tragedy describes the fatal error of
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Ancient Greek Cultural Values (Fiero 76-136) rational explanations experiential extensions Pericles’ Funeral Speech (88-89) the Iliad (81-84) Aristotle’s Poetics (99) the Antigone (92-98) Plato’s Crito (102-104) Sappho’s poems (128) Plato’s Allegory of the Cave (104-107) Pindar’s Odes (128) Aristotle’s Nichomachean Ethics (109-110) Vitruvius on Symmetry (114-116) * * * * *
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Aristotelian tragic hero must possess specific characteristics‚ such as hamartia‚ anagnorisis‚ and the fate is greater than deserved. The hero inspires the audience to feel pity and fear‚ pity because the hero does not deserve his fate‚ and fear because anyone could have the hero’s fate. Consequently‚ in Sophocles’s Oedipus The King‚ Aristotle’s definition of tragedy applies to Oedipus. Oedipus’s hamartia is arrogance. Fisler states‚ “Hubris is his flaw; his actions are the result of his excessive pride”
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In the play Oedipus Rex by Sophocles‚ the Greek audience experiences Oedipus’ heartbreaking journey to find out who he really is and how his hubris and many other fatal flaws contribute to his downfall. The Greeks loved a good tragedy and Oedipus Rex did not disappoint. In this play Oedipus was put on a mountaintop as a baby because his birth parents‚ King Laïos and Queen Iocastê‚ were told that one day Oedipus would kill his father and marry his mother. To prevent this from happening King Laïos
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of a typical Greek tragedy generally has the following attributes; hubris ‚ hamartia ‚ anagnorisis ‚ nobility‚ and a tragic demise caused by their own mistake or a punishment sent by the gods. Both Jason and Medea come from noble backgrounds as according to myth‚ Medea is a princess of Colchis‚ and Jason is the rightful heir to the throne of Iolcus. Medea helped him retrieve the Golden Fleece‚ but we see that it is his hamartia that he does not value everything she does to help him and out of greed
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