CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY CLAS C205 (23712) W 6:00-8:40pm Room: CA 235 IUPUI Fall 2014 Martina Dalinghaus‚ Program Director for Classical Studies email: mdalingh@iupui.edu Office: CA 543B; Phone: 278-3645 Office hours: MTR 9-11 am; W 4:30-5:30pm (and by appointment) Secretary (World Languages): Cavanaugh 545‚ 274-0062 Note: Please send all communications outside of office hours via email or Oncourse mail or leave urgent messages with secretary during business hours. COURSE OBJECTIVES This course provides
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Bibliography: "Euripides." Britannica Biographies (2012): 1. MasterFILE Premier. Web. 4 Mar. 2013. Kovacs‚ David. Euripides Cyclops Alcestis Medea. Loeb Classical Library. Harvard University press. Cambridge‚ Massachusetts. 1994. Print. Lind‚ L. R. Ten Greek Plays in Contemporary Translations‚. Boston: Houghton Mifflin‚ 1957. Print. O Neil‚ Kathleen. "84.02.06: Euripides Alcestis." 84.02.06:
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The written assignment is based on one work in translation studied in part 1 of the IB course syllabus. For us‚ that means Medea‚ Blood Wedding‚ or Ghosts. Students produce an analytical‚ literary essay (1‚200-1‚500 words) plus a reflective statement (300-400 words) undertaken during the course and externally assessed by the IB. The process This foundation for this assignment has been completed already. Now we have reached the last part of the process‚ which is choosing a work‚ developing a
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Controlling the future is something humanity would never be able to do. This is one of the most interesting topics about the Greek tragedy of Oedipus and the theme that makes the story to happen. That anxious feeling about knowing what’s going to happen has always been a main characteristic of humankind‚ as they try to figure and control everything‚ even if it’s out of their boundaries. The story of Oedipus clearly shows a hypothetical situation in which specific people are able to predict the future
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something heroic in his actions etc. A tragic hero is a man of noble birth with gallant or conceivably heroic qualities. A tragic hero is an abstract character who makes a judgment error that unavoidably prompts his/her destruction. In perusing Antigone‚ Medea and Hamlet‚ look at the part of equity and revenge and its impact on every character’s decisions when analysing any "judgment error.” The hero has a character respectable of stature and has enormity must occupy a high-status position additionally encapsulate
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would make him a great hero that would be remembered for many years to come. The first day in Athens Theseus started looking for Aegeus’ castle but what he did not know was that Aegeus was ‚at the time‚ under the power of a sorcerer by the name of Medea. She could see the power in him from afar and saw that he would take her power so she told Aegeus to kill him. At this time either Aegeus nor Theseus knew that they were related. Media told Aegeus to invite Theseus to a party or ball coming in the
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The Greeks’ history began around 700 B.C. with festivals honoring their many gods. One god‚ Dionysus‚ was honored with an unusual festival called the City Dionysia. The revelry-filled festival was led by drunken men dressed up in rough goat skins (because goats were thought sexually potent) who would sing and play in choruses to welcome Dionysus. Tribes competed against one another in performances‚ and the best show would have the honor of winning the contest. Of the four festivals in Athens (each
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Plays were written for a yearly festival‚ in honor of the god Dionysus‚ and were either Comedies or Tragedies. All the actors were male‚ and they all played multiple roles‚ so a mask was used to show the change in character or mood. Therefore the two masks are now used as the symbol for theatre. The Greeks invented the epic and lyric forms and used them skillfully. They also invented drama and produced masterpieces that are still deemed as dramas crowning achievement. Attendance at the festival
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founder of Cullberg Ballet Birgit Cullberg. His parents were giving him perfect environment to develop his talents‚ although as a kid he didn’t feel attraction to dance art‚ at age of eight he danced with his twin sister in their mother’s ballet Medea‚ but this was his only (childhood) experience of the medium. As a young man‚ Ek initially trained in dance with Lilian Karina and Donya Feuer‚ but shifted to drama‚ which he studied at the Marieborg Folks College. He began his career in the theatre
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During the evolution of humans‚ in every culture certain people are cursed from birth. In ancient Greece‚ these people were known as tragic heroes. The stories of these tragic heroes are known as tragedies‚ some of the earliest known tragedies are Medea and Oedipus the King. As stated in The Vocabulary of Ancient Greek Tragedy in Modern English by Francis Blessington the Greeks believed‚ “a hero must explicitly accept his fate. But in Greek tragedy‚ the hero or heroine or the play itself questions
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