Reading, GRQ's, and Discussion
Reading-
What is an Epic? descriptive phrases applied to a person or thing. This was called Formulaic Epithets. The Iliad had common phrases that include "Fleetfooted Achiles, and bronze armed Achaeans." Homer used the term (Achaean) to designate the Greeks, who are associated with the Mycenaeans. The "epic" meter used to be called the "hexameter." There were specific names to put in the structure that include Dactyls or Spondees. It can be one syllable with two short ones, or two long syllables. Examples of these names are in the common phrases. "Fleet-footed" is a Dactyl and "bronzed-armed" is a Spondee. The Iliad is a small bit of the Trojan War. The fall of Troy to the Greek army is described in The Odyssey. Odysseus desire is to see his wife. The artwork in the piece of text assigned to us really helped describe and know what we were reading because of the details of the map or the vase. Each caption to the pictures and objects gives a new perspective on the story of Iliad and The Odyssey. The storage jar had so much detail that we were able to have a prediction of the trojan horse.
Discussion-
There are many similarities between an opera and a musical. That is why many get confused if they are seeing an opera or a musical. Operas singers/actors are trained to perform without a mic. This is a big deal breaker between musicals and operas because musical singers are not trained to project their voices so far that if they don’t have mics, you cannot hear what they are saying or singing. Operas are also way cheaper to produce because of how many things you need to add. You don’t have too many special effects to portray what the actor/performer is trying to get across in the story. Like the “Phantom of the Opera,” there was a newly updated and more advanced stage setup because everything got bigger and better. The things that got bigger and better were of course the costumes, and the stage set-up, which included lighting, sounds effects, and projectors to give backgrounds. Phantom of the Opera is a Musical not an Opera because of the deciding factors of what makes an opera an opera.
GRQ's-
- Ancient Greeks
- Homer
- Iliad; Trojan War
- arete
- Homeric Epic
- Iliad; Odyssey
- gods
- inductive reasoning
- Socrates
- Plato
- The Republic
- Glaucon
- Dionysos
- Satyr Play
- Greek Comedies
- Tragedies
- Death; Dead
- Thespis; Thespian
- Protagonist; Antagonist
- Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides
- Dionysos
- Theophrastus
- Catharsis
- Golden Mean
- Verisimilitude
- Three Unities
- Universality
- Intermezzi
- Opera
- nobility
- intermezzi
- Modernism
- modernism
- Wagner
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