GRST 209 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Antihero, Aristocracy, Sophocles

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Greek and Roman Studies
• Course: GRST 209
• Professor: Peter Toohey

Document Summary

Heroines: female heroes, media women"s name, great and famous play shows how thinga are changing. Illiteracy literacy: aristocracy democracy, aristocracy to middle crazy, why can"t be women be a hero democracy. The anti-hero: heroes return home at the end, no unity not satisfying, leave the hero wandering, so, never provide a proper conclusion. If a good person: never reaches final unity, unity antihero is unity, wandering/alienation/ and crisis and no unity, narratives changes, new type of hero. Jason again: narrative method developed in all cultures. Gypsy girl: women, traditional heroic stories: never as simple as that, can be some truth. Individual vs stereotype: easier to think stereotypes if writing doesn"t work for you. What is myth: hero may be killed or may not be killed. Stereotype and heroes included in hesiod and individual and heroines in ovid: with high literacy, the individual become valud, interesting to people as the stereotype.