Question #1:What's a common theme in the Aeschylus' Oresteia and Shakespeare's Hamlet?I'm studying for a test in which we have to write an essay comparing and contrasting the two plays.A major theme in both is revenge, but what are other points of comparison/contrast I could use. Any help is appreciated. Thanks!! Question #2:what greek tragedies by aeschylus or euripides have to do with the theme of curiosity or redemption?Question #3:What Greek drama has themes that can be compared well to Oedipus Rex?I need to write an essay comparing the themes of a play read out of class to Oedipus Rex. Which play is the most interesting, as well as compares the best? Also, the shorter the better, because I don't have a lot of time. I have to choose from the following list:Aeschylus: The Persians, Seven Against Thebes, Suppliants, Prometheus Bound Euripedes: Hippolytus, Electra, Trojan Woman, Hecuba, Ion, Iphigenia at Aulis, Iphigenia at Taurus, Andromache, Children of Heracles, Helen, The Maddness of Hercules, Orestes, Phoenician Women, Suppliants. Question #4:Why is Cheney acting so vampirish these days, or was he always like that?X Close Saul Loeb, AFP / Getty Images Cheney's "dithering" salvo was just the latest attack on Obama from the former vice president and his daughters. Lee Siegel on a family crusade worthy of Ancient Greece.There is something Greek about the Cheney family’s obsessive persecution of President Obama. Ancient Greek, that is. It recalls the vindictive persecution of the House of Atreus by the Furies in Aeschylus’ great trilogy of tragic plays, The Oresteia. The Cheneys’ Fury-like pursuit of Obama is relentless, irrational, and unforgiving. First Dick Cheney, on three separate occasions, declares that Obama is making the country more vulnerable to terrorist attack, accuses the president of using the economic crisis as a pretext to expand the government, and agrees with a conservative talking head that Obama is “telegraphing weakness” to the terrorists. Like the Furies, the Cheneys stand for unreason and emotionalism. Revenge is their milk and their meat. Then his eldest daughter, Liz, proposes on Fox News that in the wake of Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize, the president send the mother of a fallen soldier to Oslo to accept the award on behalf of the U.S. military—as if it was Obama, and not her father, whose stupidity and greed has sent thousands of Americans to their death in Iraq. And recently, Cheney’s youngest daughter, Mary, announced the creation of an international consulting firm that will, no doubt, facilitate any and all opposition to the slightest Obama initiative. And just this past Wednesday there was Dick Cheney himself, the chief Fury, publicly accusing Obama of putting at risk American troops in Afghanistan by “dithering,” charging that Obama is “afraid to make a decision,” and saying that the president is endangering the American “homeland.” Cheney’s public belittling of Obama, his near-seditious claims that Obama is working against the country’s best interests and allowing America’s enemies to gain the upper hand—such vengeful attacks by a previous vice president, let alone by any former high elected official, against a sitting president are without precedent. You feel that in Cheney’s grim zeal he is not simply refusing to leave the stage, but reliving his glory days fighting the good Manichaean fight against absolute evil—this time against a president who is, in Cheney’s mind, the moral extension of the shadowy terrorists he pursued while commandeering the White House. Then, too, perhaps Cheney was so used to bending to his will the emotional weakling he served under for so long that his drubbing of Obama is simply the only way he knows how to relate to a president. There is something primitive—something along the lines of magical thinking—about the way the former vice president projects his psyche onto reality. Question #5:Cheney and his daughters are compared to a Greek family do you agree?There is something Greek about the Cheney family’s obsessive persecution of President Obama. Ancient Greek, that is. It recalls the vindictive persecution of the House of Atreus by the Furies in Aeschylus’ great trilogy of tragic plays, The Oresteia. The Cheneys’ Fury-like pursuit of Obama is relentless, irrational, and unforgiving.First Dick Cheney, on three separate occasions, declares that Obama is making the country more vulnerable to terrorist attack, accuses the president of using the economic crisis as a pretext to expand the government, and agrees with a conservative talking head that Obama is “telegraphing weakness” to the terrorists. Like the Furies, the Cheneys stand for unreason and emotionalism. Revenge is their milk and their meat. Then his eldest daughter, Liz, proposes on Fox News that in the wake of Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize, the president send the mother of a fallen soldier to Oslo to accept the award on behalf of the U.S. military—as if it was Obama, and not her father, whose stupidity and greed has sent thousands of Americans to their death in Iraq. And recently, Cheney’s youngest daughter, Mary, announced the creation of an international consulting firm that will, no doubt, facilitate any and all opposition to the slightest Obama initiative. And just this past Wednesday there was Dick Cheney himself, the chief Fury, publicly accusing Obama of putting at risk American troops in Afghanistan by “dithering,” charging that Obama is “afraid to make a decision,” and saying that the president is endangering the American “homeland.” Cheney’s public belittling of Obama, his near-seditious claims that Obama is working against the country’s best interests and allowing America’s enemies to gain the upper hand—such vengeful attacks by a previous vice president, let alone by any former high elected official, against a sitting president are without precedent. You feel that in Cheney’s grim zeal he is not simply refusing to leave the stage, but reliving his glory days fighting the good Manichaean fight against absolute evil—this time against a president who is, in Cheney’s mind, the moral extension of the shadowy terrorists he pursued while commandeering the White House. Then, too, perhaps Cheney was so used to bending to his will the emotional weakling he served under for so long that his drubbing of Obama is simply the only way he knows how to relate to a president. There is something primitive—something along the lines of magical thinking—about the way the former vice president projects his psyche onto reality. For Aeschylus, the Furies represented, in fact, a primitive age, where unreason ruled and vengeance was the only form of legal redress. Rational justice had yet to be born. The Furies were personifications of the murdered dead, who wreaked their revenge on the murderers. Such wild, lethal doomfulness seems to be Dick Cheney’s native element. The primal sin of the House of Atreus, which aroused the Furies’ centuries-long vindictive wrath, was Tantalus’ murder of his son, Pelops, whom he tried to serve up to the unwitting gods. Resurrected by the gods, Pelops has a son whom he names Atreus, and Atreus repeats the family curse. He kills his half-brother to get his money and then murders and serves up as dinner his brother Thyestes’ children to Thyestes as payback for the latter’s adultery with Atreus’ wife. From then on, the descendants of the House of Atreus turn on and murder each other in an endless cycle of revenge: father kills daughter, wife kills husband, son kills mother. Yet in the final moments of Aeschylus’ trilogy, Athena breaks the power of the Furies and votes to acquit Orestes of the crime of killing his mother (who had murdered Orestes’ father). Thus Athena replaces unreason with reason, and revenge with the spirit of clemency. Like the Furies, the Cheneys stand for unreason and emotionalism. Revenge is their milk and their meat. Obama’s Age of Reason—the advent of Athena—drives them into a rage, which in turn impels them to pursue Obama relentlessly to punish him for his crimes against what their hearts know to be true. Question #6:was Aeschylus an Athenian Citizen?was the play-write Aeschylus who wrote "The Persians" an athenian citizen?Question #7:Would "better" or "well" be more suitable for this sentence?No one knew sorrow _____ than Aeschylus.Better or Well? Thank you. Question #8:What multiple choice question could i make from reading this paragraph?SophoclesSophocles was born in 495 B.C. at Colonus which is near Athens and died in 406 B.C. He was a son of Sophilus, a wealthy merchant. Sophocles was given a well education. He would study all arts, he enjoyed it. Sophocles was a nice man. When he reached the age of sixteen, Sophocles was chosen to be lead of the choir of boys. Time passed and all of his studies were complete. Sophocles was ready to compete in the City Dionysia, a festival that was held every year at the Theatre of Dionysus. It was a festival where plays (tragedies) were presented. The first time he competed, he got first place, defeating Aeschylus. After that, when he entered a contest he would never get less than 2nd place. Sophocles wrote 123 plays and he would perform in his own plays such as "Nausicaa" and "The Women Washing Clothes." Other than spending his time on his theatrical duties, Sophocles was an ordained priest for many years to service two local heroes, Alcon and Asclepius. Also, Sophocles was on the Board of Generals and was a director of the Treasury for a while. Sophocles would make one play its own to make it more dramatic and shorter, but as for Aeschylus he would make three plays to tell one story. Out of the 123 plays Sophocles wrote, only 7 survived in whole. "Oedipus The King" is mostly considered the greatest of his work. Because of how Sophocles puts deep tragedy in his plays he makes Oedipus accidentally kill his father and marry his mother. It has great plot and suspense. He also made a sequel "Oedipus at Colonus." "Antigone" was one of the surviving plays and very well known. Sophocles best drama character would be Electra because she wanted to kill her own mother. Aeschylus questioned the story because of how Electra wanted to kill her mother. Shortly after "Oedipus at Colonus" was produced, Sophocles died. sorry i wasn't more discriptive, i meant like an inference question about the essay. Question #9:What did Aeschylus mean by "In war, truth is the first casualty"?Question #10:Greek Mythology. Could you please add to my list of pre-500 AD Greek Sources?Nothing after 500BC please.Here is my current list or Greek texts: All dates are BCE/BC [8th/7th] Homer Iliad. [8th/7th] Homer Odyssey. [8th/7th] Hesiod Works and Days. [8th/7th] Hesiod Divination by Birds. [8th/7th] Hesiod Astronomy. [8th/7th] Hesiod Precepts of Chairon. [8th/7th] Hesiod The Great Works. [8th/7th] Hesiod Idaean Dactyls. [8th/7th] Hesiod Theogeny. [8th/7th] Hesiod Catalogue of Women. [8th/7th] Hesiod Eoiae. [8th/7th] Hesiod Shield of Heracles. [8th/7th] Hesiod Melampodia. [8th/7th] Hesiod Aegimius. [8th-6th]y Epic Cycles The War of the Titans. [8th-6th]y Epic Cycles The The Story of Oedipus. [8th-6th]y Epic Cycles The Thebais. [8th-6th]y Epic Cycles The Epigoni. [8th-6th]y Epic Cycles The Cypria. [8th-6th]y Epic Cycles The Aethiopis. [8th-6th]y Epic Cycles The Little Iliad. [8th-6th]y Epic Cycles The Sack of Ilium. [8th-6th]y Epic Cycles The Retuns. [8th-6th]y Epic Cycles The Telegony. [c.750] Eumelus Choral Lyric poet of Corinth. [c.736] Olympus Choral Lyric poet. [8th-5th] Homer Hymns Collection of 28/33 hymns. [7th-6th] Homerica Expedition of the Amphiaraus. [7th-6th] Homerica Taking of Oechalia. [7th-6th] Homerica Phocais. [7th-6th] Homerica Margites. [7th-6th] Homerica Cercopes. [7th-6th] Homerica Battle of the Weasles and Mice. [7th-6th] Homerica Battle of the Frogs and Mice. [696-640] Terpander Choral Lyric poet. [680-645] Archilochus Iambic poet of Paros. [c.660] Thaletas Choral Lyric poet of Sparta. [mid-7th] Alkman Choral Lyric poet. [mid-7th] Callinus Elegiac poet of Ephesus. [mid-7th] Polymnestus Choral Lyric poet of Colophon. [mid-7th] Semonides Iambic poet of Samos. [late-7th] Tyrtaeus Elegiac poet of Athens and Sparta. [640-555] Stesichorus Choral Lyric poet of Himera. [638-558] Solon Ruler of Greece: 594, Elegiac poet. [624-546] Thales Of Miletus. Mathematician, 1st philosopher. [620-580] Alcaeus Solo Lyric poet of Lesbos. [620-570] Sappho Solo Lyric poet of Lesbos ("the tenth Muse"). [c.630] Mimnermus Elegiac poet. [c.625] Arion Choral Lyric poet of Lesbos. [c.602] Susarion Iambic poet of Megera (first comedy?). [early-6th] Epigrams Homeric [c.586] Echembroyus Lyric poet. [c.586] Sarcadas Lyric poet. [582-507] Pythagoras Mathematician and philosopher. [c.570] Anacreon Solo Lyric poet. [c.560] Ibycus Choral Lyric poet. [556-469] Simonides Lyric poet of Ceos. [550-480] Hecataeus Geographer from Miletus. [546-508] Lasus Choral Lyric poet. [c.544] Theognis Elegiac poet. [c.540] Hipponax Iambic poet of Ephesus. [c.540] Ananius Iambic poet. [535-475] Heraclitus Pre-Socratic philosopher of Ephesus. [525-456] Aeschylus Athenian tragic dramatist, b. Eleusis. [518-438] Pindar Lyric poet. [c.518] Bacchylides Lyric poet. [c.500] Pratinas Lyric poet. Question #11:3 questions about roman history?i need help on a test, and i cannot find the answers to these questions. Here they are:Which Roman mythological author based much of his mythology on what he had read of the Greek legends? A)Aeschylus B)Ovid C)Livy D)Apuleius E)Vergil Which author below is credited with the creation and writing of the Roman short story? A)Aeschylus B)Ovid C)Livy D)Apuleius E)Vergil If you began walking in Hispania and walked east, which country would you end up at first? A)Italia B)Brittania C)Graecia D)Gallia E)Aegyptus. plese answer these quickly Question #12:Where was the greek play "The Persians" by Aeschylus first played in the 400~500's BC?I'd like to know where the first play was held. Thank you.Question #13:How is Xerxes characterized in The Persians by Aeschylus?It's the play by Aeschylus. Just write whatever you can, one line, ten lines...!Thanks Question #14:Is great tragedy a gift from God?"Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God."--Aeschylus Question #15:Where can I read The Oresteia by Aeschylus online?please!Question #16:greek mythology questions: 1. Why did xenophanes reject the gods of Homer and Hesiod?1)Why did Xenophanes reject the gods of Homer and Hesiod?A)because they were anthropomorphic B)because they behaved immorally C)because he believed in only one, unknowable god D)all of the above 2)The Greeks conceived of Chaos as A)confusion B)darkness C)creative imagination D)emptiness 3)Gaia A)is often described as pelore, or vast, monstrous, and awe-inspiring B)mates with Chaos to produce Night C)attempts to prevent generational change D)all of the above 4)How is Aphrodite born? A)she springs from Zeus’ head B)she emerges from the ocean foam C)she is the offspring of Zeus and Eros D)she is one of the children of Cronos 5)In the Works and Days, what age does Hesiod claim to live in? A)The Age of Heroes B)The Bronze Age C)The Silver Age D)The Iron Age 6)Why does Zeus punish Prometheus? A)He gave fire to humanity B)He gave wisdom to humanity C)He revealed the secret location of Olympus D)He fought with the Titans against Zeus 7)What does Prometheus say he taught humans? A)how to hunt B)how to worship the gods C)how to rebel against unjust authority D)how to forget their own mortality 8)In the Works and Days, what does Pandora leave in the box? A)misery B)happiness C)hope D)sickness 9)A poem sung by one person is A)A Choral ode B)A Lyric monody C)An epic D)A tragedy 10)Which of the following was a major influence on Aeschylus? A)The fall of Troy B)His experiences in battle C)The invention of the “3rd actor” in drama D)The establishment of democracy in Athens 11)Which of the following is NOT a result of Hade’s kidnapping of Persephone? A)Demophon’s immortality B)The changing of the seasons C)The Rites at Eleusis D)Demeter’s resistance to Zeus 12)Sappho’s primary subject is A)Love B)War C)Nature D)Fate 13)How do the gods react to Aphrodite’s affair with Ares? A)They banish Aphrodite from Olympus B)They laugh at her when she is caught in Hephaestus’ trap C)They blame Ares for the affair D)They laugh at Hephaestus as a cuckold Question #17:why was Aeschylus and Thucydides so important?what were they known for?Question #18:Please help me with these literary allusions!!?Ok. Im supposed to look up these allusions (i dont know in what sense) and memorize them by tmrw...my teacher is obviously out of her mind, because even if we do find these allusions, what if we all have different answers.Adonis Aeneas Aeschylus Agamemnon Ahab Ajax Andromeda Antaeus Antigone Antonio(Shakespeare) Antony, Mark Apocalypse Apocrypha Argonauts Ariadne Ariel Ark of the Covenant Armageddon Artemis Atlanta Athena (Pallas Athena) Athos, Porthos, Aramis Augean Stables Avalon Question #19:which four books should I read?my english teacher gave us a long list of books to pick from and we each have to pick 4. so if you've read any of the following, tell me which ones are good :) thanks.sorry i know its long :/ Absalom, Absalom by William Faulkner (76, 00) Adam Bede by George Eliot (06) The Aeneid by Virgil (06) Agnes of God by John Pielmeier (00) The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (97, 02, 03, 05, 08) Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood (00, 04, 08) All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren (00, 02, 04, 07, 08, 09) All My Sons by Arthur Miller (85, 90) All the Pretty Horses by Cormac McCarthy (95, 96, 06, 07, 08) America Is in the Heart by Carlos Bulosan (95) An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser (81, 82, 95, 03) American Pastoral by Philip Roth (09) The American by Henry James (05, 07) Angels in America by Tony Kushner (09) Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (80, 91, 99, 02, 03, 04, 06, 08, 09) Another Country by James Baldwin (95) Antigone by Sophocles (79, 80, 90, 94, 99, 03, 05, 09) Anthony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare (80, 91) Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz by Mordecai Richler (94) Armies of the Night by Norman Mailer (76) As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner (78, 89, 90, 94, 01, 04, 06, 07, 09) As You Like It by William Shakespeare (92, 05, 06) Atonement by Ian McEwan (07) Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man by James Weldon Johnson (02, 05) The Awakening by Kate Chopin (87, 88, 91, 92, 95, 97, 99, 02, 04, 07, 09) B "The Bear" by William Faulkner (94, 06) Beloved by Toni Morrison (90, 94, 99, 01, 03, 05, 07, 09) A Bend in the River by V. S. Naipaul (03) Benito Cereno by Herman Melville (89) Billy Budd by Herman Melville (79, 81, 82, 83, 85, 99, 02, 04, 05, 07, 08) The Birthday Party by Harold Pinter (89, 97) Black Boy by Richard Wright (06, 08) Bleak House by Charles Dickens (94, 00, 04, 09) Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya (94, 96, 97, 99, 04, 05, 06, 08) The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood (07) The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison (95, 08, 09) Bone: A Novel by Fae M. Ng (03) The Bonesetter's Daughter by Amy Tan (06, 07) Brighton Rock by Graham Greene (79) Broken for You by Stephanie Kallos (09) The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevski (90, 08) C Candida by George Bernard Shaw (80) Candide by Voltaire (80, 86, 87, 91, 95, 96, 04, 06) The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (06) The Caretaker by Harold Pinter (85) Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams (00) Cat's Eye by Margaret Atwood (94, 08, 09) The Centaur by John Updike (81) Ceremony by Leslie Marmon Silko (94, 96, 97, 99, 01, 03, 05, 06, 07, 09) The Cherry Orchard by Anton Chekhov (71, 77, 06, 07, 09) The Chosen by Chaim Potok (08) "Civil Disobedience" by Henry David Thoreau (76) Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier (06, 08) The Color Purple by Alice Walker (91, 92, 94, 95, 96, 97, 05, 08, 09) Coming Through Slaughter by Michael Ondaatje (01) Copenhagen by Michael Frayn (09) Cry, The Beloved Country by Alan Paton (85, 87, 91, 95, 96, 07, 09) Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevski (76, 79, 80, 82, 88, 96, 99, 00, 01, 02, 03, 04, 05, 09) "The Crisis" by Thomas Paine (76) The Crossing by Cormac McCarthy (09) D Daisy Miller by Henry James (97, 03) Dancing at Lughnasa by Brian Friel (01) David Copperfield by Charles Dickens (78, 83, 06) "The Dead" by James Joyce (97) The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy (86) Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller (86, 88, 94, 03, 04, 05, 07) Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty (97) Desire under the Elms by Eugene O'Neill (81) Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler (97) The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri (06) The Diviners by Margaret Laurence (95) Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe (79, 86, 99, 04) A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen (71, 83, 87, 88, 95, 05, 09) The Dollmaker by Harriet Arnow (91) Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes (92, 01, 04, 06, 08) Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia (03) Dutchman by Amiri Baraka/Leroi Jones (03, 06) E East of Eden by John Steinbeck (06) Emma by Jane Austen (96, 08) An Enemy of the People by Henrik Ibsen (76, 80, 87, 99, 01, 07) Equus by Peter Shaffer (92, 99, 00, 01, 08, 09) Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton (80, 85, 03, 05, 06, 07) The Eumenides by Aeschylus (in The Orestia) (96) F The Fall by Albert Camus (81) A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway (91, 99, 04, 09) The Father by August Strindberg (01) Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev (90) Faust by Johann Goethe (02, 03) The Federalist by Alexander Hamilton (76) Fences by August Wilson (02, 03, 05, 09) A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry (03) Fifth Business by Robertson Davies (00, 07) The Fixer by Bernard Malamud (07) For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway (03, 06) G A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest Gaines (00) Germinal by Emile Zola (09) A Gesture Life by Chang-Rae Lee (04, 05) Ghosts by Henrik Ibsen (00, 04) Giants in the Earth by O. E. Ro Question #20:A Level Classical Civilisation?Hi everyone, please help me if you can! I am currently debating in my own mind over which 3rd A Level I should take and I am looking for some info from people who have actually taken A level Classical Civilisation.How did you find the course? I understand that the texts are: The Odyssey by Homer The Oresteia by Aeschylus The Three Theban Plays by Sophocles Medea and Other Plays by Euripides The Bacchae and Other Plays by Euripides Virgil’s Aeneid Were the texts difficult to understand and come to terms with? What were the exams like? What grades did you receive? I would be so grateful if you could spend the time offering me your insight, it would truly help me make an informed decision. Thank you in advance for any information you are able to offer me. Xx ** Powered by Yahoo Answers |
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