2010 Medusa Exam Syllabus Olympians 2.0 This syllabus is intended to help guide you in your preparation for the exam. It is not the be all‚ end all; there can be information on the exam which is not explicitly detailed on this syllabus. If you find other information in your research that you think should be added‚ go ahead. We want to be fully prepared for the test! This was designed by Dave Mathers & his Greek class‚ in preparation for
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In Ancient Greece the existence of gods and fate prevailed. In the Greek tragedy King Oedipus by the playwright Sophocles these topics are heavily involved. We receive a clear insight into their roles in the play such as they both control man ’s actions and that challenging their authority leads to a fall. The concepts of the gods and fate were created to explain things. In Ancient Greece there was a lot that was not understood; science was in its infancy and everything that happened could be
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Arthur Asher Miller was one of the greatest playwrights and essayists of the 20th century. He won numerous awards for his writing including the Tony Award for best play and Pulitzer Prize for drama. He lived a long fruitful life and provided a total of seven decades in playwright. Earlier Life and Potential Influence to His Writing: Arthur was born in October 17th‚ 1915. He was the second of three children of Isidore and Augusta Miller. His father was a well-known man in the community and they
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A History of Ancient Greece The Greek Genius Author: Robert Guisepi Date: 1998 The Greeks were the first to formulate many of the Western world’s fundamental concepts in politics‚ philosophy‚ science‚ and art. How was it that a relative handful of people could bequeath such a legacy to civilization? The definitive answer may always elude the historian‚ but a good part of the explanation lies in environmental and social factors. Unlike the Near Eastern monarchies‚ the polis was not
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Nicole Jarrell Intro to Theatre Ms. Elizabeth Taheri October 10‚ 2000 Theatre as a Religious Ceremony "The drama in Greece was inextricably bound up with religious feeling and religious observance." (Cheney 33) The citizens of the Greek states were the first European communities to raise dramatic performances to the level of an art. Furthermore‚ the Greek playwrights still exercise a potent creative force‚ and many modern dramatists find strong relationships between these legendary themes
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The evidence of the monuments as to the character and significance of Hekate is almost as full as that of the literature. But it is only in the later period that they come to express her manifold and mystic nature. Before the fifth century there is little doubt that she was usually represented as of single form like any other divinity‚ and it was thus that the Boeotian poet imagined her‚ as nothing in his verses contains any allusion to a triple formed goddess. The earliest known monument is a small
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Greek Democracy was a revolutionary and enduring influence‚ helping to mold and shape the face of today’s democracy‚ while simultaneously subjugating women and paving the way for a male-dominated society the world over. Bolstered by the advent of democracy‚ the systematic oppression of women continued well into the 20th century in most of the developed world and arguably still persists today. During the Greek Dark Ages‚ the Greek villages were controlled by independent monarchies (Kidner et al.
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Aristotle on Greek Tragedy The word tragedy literally means "goat song‚" probably referring to the practice of giving a goat as a sacrifice or a prize at the religious festivals in honor of the god Dionysos. Whatever its origins‚ tragedy came to signify a dramatic presentation of high seriousness and noble character which examines the major questions of human existence: Why are we here? How can we know the will of the gods? What meaning does life have in the face of death? In tragedy people are
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A figure of speech is a use of a word that diverges from its normal meaning‚[citation needed] or a phrase with a specialized meaning not based on the literal meaning of the words in it such as a metaphor‚ simile‚ or personification.[citation needed] Figures of speech often provide emphasis‚ freshness of expression‚ or clarity. However‚ clarity may also suffer from their use‚ as any figure of speech introduces an ambiguity between literal and figurative interpretation. A figure of speech is sometimes
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It’s very easy to see William Shakespeare as an amazing literary genius who had a perspective on life that‚ to simply put it‚ no one else has ever had. However Shakespeare was the product of the English Renaissance. The English Renaissance was a cultural and artistic movement spanning from the later 15th century until the early 17th century‚ it is associated with the Italian Renaissance which started in the 14th century. Like most of northern Europe‚ England did not get the full effect of the Renaissance
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