CLASS 40 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Hylas, Euripides, Greek Mythology
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Credit every argument that is not your own. Think about euripides" dramatization of the story of oedipus. What techniques did euripides use (dramatic irony, theme of knowledge, choice of characters, etc. ) in staging oedipus the king: myth in poetry think about apollonios" revision of myth in argonautika. Explain which aspects of the myth the poet chose to emphasize (or add, or change) Monday, may 22, 2017: myth into film. Readings-euripides, bacchae; download and read the house of cadmus . How this jason compares to the jason in. Euripides? characteristics: un-heroic moment: the choice of a leader vs. herakles (hercules) he"s very democratic in the beginning and not asserting himself as the leader the men all turn to herakles but herakles appoints jason as the leader. Jason goes off-quest when he is occupied with women-lemnian women story by staying with the lemnian women, doing a favor to continue their race by mating with jason and his men noble.
