Group presentation practice!
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
April 11
Moral of the Story in Metamorphoses1. shit happens
2. things change
The Transformations or The Golden Ass:
-golden meaning bright, not color
-the moral of the story is the story
-the earliest novel
-melodrama: sensation for the sake of sensation
-beasts of burden, both the lowest and the highest
-a book about your eventual transformation
-redeems everything
-fairy tales are degenerate myths
-one of the greatest human needs is laughter
The story of Cupid and Psyche
-the first monster-in-law story
-all marriage is abduction/rape-all weddings are funerals
--pg. 104 "Now he was climbing into bed with her, now he was making her his wife"
Sunday, April 8, 2007
April 4
Quiz Review:
1. Which birds represent Procne and Philomela?
- swallow and nightingale
2. What is ate?
- infatuation to the point of being ruined
3. Who was the original artisan?
- Daedalus
4. Who is the god of sleep, dreams, and disguises?
- Morpheus
5. What should we avoid at all costs?
- old people
6. What is Aristophanes theory about the soul mate?
- people used to be joined in twos, the gods split people apart
7. Tragedy emphasises (blank) while comedy emphasises (blank).
- individual, society
8. Plato thought that the way to achieve immortality of the soul was through what?
- knowledge and virtue
9. Socrates learned about love from whom?
- Diotima
10. What is Socratic irony
- I don't know nuthin'
11. What did Icarus do that he shouldn't have?
- flew too close to the sun
12. What was the difference between Minerva's and Arachne's weaving?
- the portrayal of the gods
13. What is the final frame in "The Spinners?"
- Rape of Europa
14. What does Pentheus mean?
- man of constant sorrow
15. How were Cadmus and Pentheus related?
- Cadmus was Pentheus' grandfather
16. What was Ulysses' claim to the armor?
- Ulysses started it all
17. What Shakespearean play was partly inspired by Tereus and Procne?
- Titus Andronicus
18. What is a characteristic of new comedy?
- boy wants girl
19. What is anagnorsis?
- recognition
20. What is the first instance of framing in Ovid?
- Pan and Syrinx
21. What is Grace?
- the awareness of God's presence in the world
22. What is omophagia?
- the eating of living flesh
23. Who are the parents of Love?
- poverty and contrivance
24. How old will Ovid's Metamorphoses be in 2008?
- 2000 years old
25. What was Daphne turned into?
- a laurel tree
26. What does naso mean?
- nose
27. Why was Aristophanes speech delayed?
- he had hiccups
1. Which birds represent Procne and Philomela?
- swallow and nightingale
2. What is ate?
- infatuation to the point of being ruined
3. Who was the original artisan?
- Daedalus
4. Who is the god of sleep, dreams, and disguises?
- Morpheus
5. What should we avoid at all costs?
- old people
6. What is Aristophanes theory about the soul mate?
- people used to be joined in twos, the gods split people apart
7. Tragedy emphasises (blank) while comedy emphasises (blank).
- individual, society
8. Plato thought that the way to achieve immortality of the soul was through what?
- knowledge and virtue
9. Socrates learned about love from whom?
- Diotima
10. What is Socratic irony
- I don't know nuthin'
11. What did Icarus do that he shouldn't have?
- flew too close to the sun
12. What was the difference between Minerva's and Arachne's weaving?
- the portrayal of the gods
13. What is the final frame in "The Spinners?"
- Rape of Europa
14. What does Pentheus mean?
- man of constant sorrow
15. How were Cadmus and Pentheus related?
- Cadmus was Pentheus' grandfather
16. What was Ulysses' claim to the armor?
- Ulysses started it all
17. What Shakespearean play was partly inspired by Tereus and Procne?
- Titus Andronicus
18. What is a characteristic of new comedy?
- boy wants girl
19. What is anagnorsis?
- recognition
20. What is the first instance of framing in Ovid?
- Pan and Syrinx
21. What is Grace?
- the awareness of God's presence in the world
22. What is omophagia?
- the eating of living flesh
23. Who are the parents of Love?
- poverty and contrivance
24. How old will Ovid's Metamorphoses be in 2008?
- 2000 years old
25. What was Daphne turned into?
- a laurel tree
26. What does naso mean?
- nose
27. Why was Aristophanes speech delayed?
- he had hiccups
Saturday, April 7, 2007
April 2
More lines from Ovid were recited and the award for the best lines was given to Ashley for her lines on page 73, the final lines of the story of Europa-Roberto Callaso says it all begins with the story of Europa
-To invite the gods to one house became a dangerous thing to do; to invite the gods is to destroy our relationship with them, but it sets history in motion
-A life in which the gods are not invited isn't worth living.
We have been created by Shakespeare.
-"Do not judge a book because you find it distasteful, there are no immoral or moral books."
-"A true work of art is static and has wholeness, harmony, and radiance."
We are examining the stories of artists.
-Pygmalion: Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo
-Every technology has its dark side.
March 30
We spent the first part of the class discussing blogs, specifically those of Dustin, Elizabeth, and mostly Carly.
-She wrote about some ideas she had while reading a book by Roberto Callaso including thoughts on ate, infatuation to the point of ruining one's life.
"He turned his mind to unknown arts."
The Wind in the Willows-in the chapter titled "Pipers at the Gates of Dawn," the characters see the god of nature: Pan
-Pan's Labyrinth is a movie that deals with this too
We need to train our ears as well as our eyes
-We need to hear the music of the spheres (the music of the planets moving)
After Ovid: modern poets retell the stories of The Metamorphoses of Ovid
-only art matters
The last part of the class was devoted to the sharing of each person's favorite five lines from Ovid
-Many chose lines from Pythagoras, but there were choices ranging between pages 25-549, almost everyone picked something unique.
-She wrote about some ideas she had while reading a book by Roberto Callaso including thoughts on ate, infatuation to the point of ruining one's life.
"He turned his mind to unknown arts."
The Wind in the Willows-in the chapter titled "Pipers at the Gates of Dawn," the characters see the god of nature: Pan
-Pan's Labyrinth is a movie that deals with this too
We need to train our ears as well as our eyes
-We need to hear the music of the spheres (the music of the planets moving)
After Ovid: modern poets retell the stories of The Metamorphoses of Ovid
-only art matters
The last part of the class was devoted to the sharing of each person's favorite five lines from Ovid
-Many chose lines from Pythagoras, but there were choices ranging between pages 25-549, almost everyone picked something unique.
March 28
Daedalus & Icarus:-He turned his mind to "unknown arts"
-Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man-main character is Steven Daedalus
The Redemptive Power of Art
-Buddha had to be kept away from sickness, death, and old age
-Art redeems us from the terror of the world
-The art of imagination robs the earth of horror
-The complete works of Shakespeare also transform the world
-James Joyce's last book, Finnegans Wake is a new version of The Metamorphoses
-The details make it real
Ovid was the most cinematic of all writers (except James Joyce)
-"But you'd have said that those Athenians had taken flight with wings"
-Ovid keeps all of the options open
-From similes to metaphors
Tragedy: wasted youth, never to have been born, what is the worst thing that can possibly be imagined
March 26
Dionysus: a god of opposites- wine and clarity
- peace and carnage
- how can this be?
The stories we are going to focus on from Ovid's Metamorphoses are:
- Io and Jove
- Syrinx
- Europa
- Arachne
- Pygmalion
- Procne, Tereus, and Philomela
- Daedalus
- Pythagoras
- and Professor Sexson's favorite: The Sibyl
March 23
We have been instructed to make one story from Metamorphoses "ours."Gardens of Adonis: bloom early and die early
-live fast, love hard, die young
-the painting is The Awakening of Adonis by J.W. Waterhouse
Much of the class was devoted to a stichomythia between Luke and Jon taken from pages 32-35 and then pages 38-40 of Bacchae.
Anagnorisis: recognition
March 21
The story of Pentheus is also in Metamorphoses.
-pg. 97 Pentheus mocked Bacchus and even Tiresias
Cadmus founded Thebes when he went to go find his sister who had been abducted by Zeus.
-He married Harmonia and they had 4 beautiful daughters: Semele, Agave, Ino, and Autonoe.
We have to keep repeating the past until we get it right.
Tragedy occurs when a huge gap exist between the crime and the punishment.
-pg. 97 Pentheus mocked Bacchus and even Tiresias
Cadmus founded Thebes when he went to go find his sister who had been abducted by Zeus.
-He married Harmonia and they had 4 beautiful daughters: Semele, Agave, Ino, and Autonoe.
We have to keep repeating the past until we get it right.
Tragedy occurs when a huge gap exist between the crime and the punishment.
March 19
We have been instructed to read the essay, "Athenian Women" by Sarah Ruden that is found at the end of Lysistrata.
- deals with the overturning of the typical laws
- The Dead Day or the Saturnalia: women have power, a day of license with no repercussions
- tragedy and comedy are the two sides of a coin
Lysistrata
-pg. 32: The women dress the councilor up like a woman (the most humiliating thing to happen to a man, ex. Hercules). He is used as a scapegoat because he is ritualistically expelled from the community, takes all of the sins away. This is probably unconsciously done by Aristophanes. The women then dress the councilor up like a corpse.
Aristophanes was making fun of the phallus
- attacking it as a symbol of the male aggression
- deflation of male authority
- making fun of phallocentricsm
The point of comedy is reconciliation, merriment: feasting and dancing.
Bacchantes were the women who danced for Dionysus: one day to be without oppression.
The point of Dionysus was to drive you out of your mind: the first deconstructor but also a liberator.
- deals with the overturning of the typical laws
- The Dead Day or the Saturnalia: women have power, a day of license with no repercussions
- tragedy and comedy are the two sides of a coin
Lysistrata
-pg. 32: The women dress the councilor up like a woman (the most humiliating thing to happen to a man, ex. Hercules). He is used as a scapegoat because he is ritualistically expelled from the community, takes all of the sins away. This is probably unconsciously done by Aristophanes. The women then dress the councilor up like a corpse.
Aristophanes was making fun of the phallus
- attacking it as a symbol of the male aggression
- deflation of male authority
- making fun of phallocentricsm
The point of comedy is reconciliation, merriment: feasting and dancing.
Bacchantes were the women who danced for Dionysus: one day to be without oppression.
The point of Dionysus was to drive you out of your mind: the first deconstructor but also a liberator.
March 9
There are 3 types of comedy: old, new, and ShakespearianIn the movie The Name of the Rose (based on the book of the same name) they are looking for the lost section on comedy from Aristotle's Poetics
- the church didn't want it to be found because "laughter is what teaches us that nothing is sacred"
March 7
Comedy underscores community even at the expense of the individual
-There is nothing about the human being that is shameful
-Whatever is human is ok in comedy
-In the last act, all characters are usually on stage
-Turning upside-down of the laws
-Usually the hero is not very smart
Old Comedy: Aristophanes: 11 comedies, about current politics and peace, have an element of the obscene, death and rebirth
New Comedy: comic version of the Oedipus story, boy wants girl, boy can't get girl, in the end gets girl
"Literature is the product of neurotic people."
Aristotle said: 1. comedy deals with people who are worse than they are - comedy loves stupidity and 2. comedy originates from phallic processions
Jann and Ashley then performed a stichomythia of the oath taken in Lysistrata
-There is nothing about the human being that is shameful
-Whatever is human is ok in comedy
-In the last act, all characters are usually on stage
-Turning upside-down of the laws
-Usually the hero is not very smart
Old Comedy: Aristophanes: 11 comedies, about current politics and peace, have an element of the obscene, death and rebirth
New Comedy: comic version of the Oedipus story, boy wants girl, boy can't get girl, in the end gets girl
"Literature is the product of neurotic people."
Aristotle said: 1. comedy deals with people who are worse than they are - comedy loves stupidity and 2. comedy originates from phallic processions
Jann and Ashley then performed a stichomythia of the oath taken in Lysistrata
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