HUMA 1105 Lecture Notes - Sophrosyne, Plastic Arts, Calchas
25 Mar 2014
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Slide 2: part of a religious festival that took place in athens. Slide 5: both of them believed art is an imitation, plato"s theory of forms, 3 stages, aristotle believes tragedies are imitation, the action that takes place is an imitation of action. Slide 9: the subject is not mundane concerns, it"s usually about heroes and so on. Slide 10: agamemnon"s mistake is sacrificing his daughter, agamemnon boasts he is a better hunter than artemis (whose roman equivalent is. Slide 11: agamemnon"s error of judgement here is the sacrifice of hi daughter. Inner world of fantasy: god of light, of the sun, prophecy, etc, sophrosyne self-control, knowledge of self, na vet harmony with nature, non-visual art of music. In joy at the approach of spring and in narcotics the individual forgets himself completely: universal harmony each individual becomes at one with his fellow. Loss of control: mystical oneness, reconciliation of humankind and.
