POST 7– READING AND GRQ AND DISCUSSION: THEATER OF THE PEOPLE

 GRQ Sayre Brocket Hildy 

Iliad and the Odyssey

1. Greeks

2. Homer

3. Iliad

4. Trojan War

5. Homeric Epic

6. Iliad, Odyssey

7. Gods

8. inductive reasoning

9. Socrates

10. Plato

11. Republic Treatise

12. Allegory of the Cave

13. Dionysis

14. Satyr Play

15. Greek Comedy

16. Tragedies

17. Death

18. Thespis, Thespian

19. Protagonist, Antagonist

20. Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides

21. Dionysos

22. Plato

23. Catharsis

24. Golden Mean

25. Verisimiltude

26. Three Unities

27. Universality

28. Intermezzi

29. Opera

30. Nobility

31. Intermezzi

32. Modernism

33. Modernism

34. Wagner

The Reading:

One thing that fascinates me about learning different cultures is learning about the different stories that coincide with their culture. When we learned about the Native Americans during one of the first weeks of class, we learned that storytelling was one of their ways to pass down traditions and keep families united. I find that the case in this reading when learning about the Homeric Epics. Homer, wrote two lengthy poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey which depict Odysseus' ten-year journey home. Odysseus was the king of Ithaca, and he fought in the Trojan war. The epics were a defining influence on ancient Greek culture and education. 

The reading also talks about Greek comedy and tragedy in theater. Within both categories of plays, are many subcategories. Greek theater was highly sought after as entertainment, as thousands of people could fit in an arena at once. Another sought after entertainment was the opera. Opera is still such a popular genre of music, with hundreds of concerts yearly in arenas across the world.

Class Discussion

One topic discussed in class was the Allegory of the Cave. This allegory was about a few cavemen who lived their whole lives chained up and forced to look at a wall. On the other side of the wall, shadows were projected by using fire, so the cavemen thought that was their only reality, until one cavemen left and realized there was a whole life outside the cave. We talked about the fear of the unknown for the other cavemen who didn't leave. If I was in that situation, I'm not sure I would leave the cave to explore a whole different life just based off one person saying it was good on the other side. I would like to say that I would have just said yes, I would leave and start my life over, but I don't think that is the reality. If my entire life was revolved around the cave and inside the cave, it would need a lot more convincing to leave.