ENGL 103W Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Euripides
12 May 2016
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Drunkenness / drama : parallel between the two. It is a puzzle to philosophers how we can be say horrified by horror: doesn"t even have any depth, not even real. April 20th saturday : 12:00pm 2:00 pm. 10 mc / passages from plays : author, play, speaker, significance of the paragraph. Realistically he was an athenian even though he lived 5 km away. His family owned a hereditary priesthood and they were situated reasonably high without being high class. The family were green grocers: they sold produce. He lived in a cave(retreat) as a hermit on a beach that"s what people thought. His plays were at some point bound together alphabetically. He entered theatre competitions in about 455 bce and he entered about 22 times. The athenians were a little unhappy about giving him the first prize: he liked to poke fun at things. He would do anything if it meant shocking and exciting his audience.
