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Post #7- Reading, GRQ's, Discussion - Theatre of the people.

 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-
  1. Ancient Greeks
  2. Homer
  3. Iliad; Trojan War
  4. arete
  5. Homeric Epic
  6. Iliad; Odyssey
  7. gods
  8. inductive reasoning
  9. Socrates
  10. Plato
  11. The Republic
  12. Glaucon
  13. Dionysos
  14. Satyr Play
  15. Greek Comedies
  16. Tragedies
  17. Death; Dead
  18. Thespis; Thespian
  19. Protagonist; Antagonist
  20. Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides
  21. Dionysos
  22. Theophrastus
  23. Catharsis
  24. Golden Mean
  25. Verisimilitude
  26. Three Unities
  27. Universality
  28. Intermezzi
  29. Opera
  30. nobility
  31. intermezzi
  32. Modernism
  33. modernism
  34. Wagner

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