THE 3311 Study Guide - Spring 2019, Comprehensive Midterm Notes - Latin, Ancient Rome, Ancient Greece
14 Feb 2019
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Can you look at these plays with different lenses to reinterpret them? (have to how it was produced in that time period) Words have the power to perform and legitimize actions and transform people from one state to another. Ex: enter marriage ceremony single; say i do ; moderator declares parties married; leave marriage ceremony married. Trigger and heaps- domino effect backwards and forwards . Way to pass down cultures, customs, & traditions. Diet: sugars [ex) honey, bread, beer, wine) Treaties, one of the earliest documented peace treaties. They could own properties, get jobs, divorce, religious rights. Uterus an oven- they thought that woman was the only one to produce that men had more to give. God dionysius (god of wine, fertility, etc. ) at city dionysia. Aeschylus- father of tragedy, added a second person becomes more complex. Euripides- youngest, wrote medea, included more common characters, more common everyday dialogue. Philosopher: 428/427 or 424/423 bce- c. 348/347 bce.
