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'''Use this page to share class notes. Please do not remove previous postings!''' Conventions of Homeric Epics:

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 * 1. Invocation
 * Formal plea for aid --> muse
 * 2. In Medias Res
 * "Into the midst of things" [flashbacks]
 * 3. Epic Similes
 * Extended elaborate comparisons
 * Homeric ones compare heroic events to everyday events
 * 4. Metrical Structure
 * Dactylic hexameter - 6 stressed syllables per line
 * 5. Stock Epithets
 * Descriptive adj. or phrase used w/ or in palace of noun or proper name

Pinochio saying im a real boy Abstract instead of concrete Synthetic character- sole purpose is to advance the plot
 * Ag-anger-fire—burning wind of plague--burning fire(22)—hector
 * Purpose-development of character, especially heroic character
 * Character development used aristotles poetic literary critisisms
 * Describes: aspects of a mimetic
 * Mimetic- seems like a real person, lives outside book
 * Thematic character- an idea with legs

-whats the character like Function -what the characterization is	Praxis-what a character does Pathos- what is done to them Ethos- what he is	Methos- plot 3 things laid before paris Lord of all of Europe= power Victory in battle=honor, respect, glory Broke sacred bond(honor code) Guest-host etiquette Property breach Civilized, art, reason. order, high brow, sober restraint, moderation, enlightened, evolved, law, architecture, politics Reason, intelligence		civilization, sophistication Primitive, nature, instinct, chaos, low-brow, drunken abandon, passion, beastial, atavistic, anarchy Nature, primitive     instinct and impulse Apollos protégé Defender of a city-reason, law Guardian of perishable joys-arts, pursuit of happiness architecture Protector and defender of city,wife,child-serve and protect
 * Attribute..
 * Helen=possession
 * Offenses when taking Helen
 * Son of zeus=Apollo-twin=artemis
 * Greek god of light medicine poetry and prophecy-order
 * Sun-apollo riding chariot across the sky
 * Dionysis- or Bacchus, son of zeus
 * Son of mortal woman, somalay, god of wine and revelry
 * Apollonian- followers of Apollo
 * Dionysian
 * Force hero-achilles
 * Resistance hero-hector
 * Other force-agamemnon-thematic character
 * “Tiger at the gates”
 * Force meeting resistance
 * Beast at the city
 * Arete- personal honor or excellence
 * -spoils of war and importance to warrior
 * -the gods direct interventions in human affairs and their willingness to take sides
 * -importance of respect for the dead
 * Rhapsodes- oral historians and entertainers
 * Conventions- characteristics of epic genre
 * Invocation- formal plea for aid
 * En medias res- middle of action
 * Epic similies- extended elaborate similies
 * Stock epithets- descriptive adjective or prase that is repeatedly used with or in place of a noun or proper name

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Reading the Iliad
 * Purpose: See head note. Development of character, especially heroic character.
 * Aristotle’s Poetica (the original literary criticism)-
 * Mimetic: real person, they seem to live outside of the action as well as inside
 * Thematic: An idea with legs (abstract)
 * Synthetic: a character who’s sole purpose is to advance the plot
 * Attribute- What the character is
 * Function- what the character does
 * Praxis- What he does
 * Pathos- What is done to him
 * Ethos: What he is (in Greek drama, ethos must always be harmottus- fitting to the character idea)
 * All these aspects work to create the mythos of the story: the plot or the acting and doing

E. Hamilton’s Mythology Version of the Iliad
 * What are the 3 things laid before Paris?
 * Lord of Asia/Europe-power
 * Victory in battle- glory
 * Helen- possession
 * What are Paris’ offenses when he takes Helen?
 * Broke sacred bond (honor bound)
 * Guest/host etiquette
 * Property breach

Apollonian and Dionysian are the terms used by Fredrich Nietzsche in The Birth of Tragedy and Beyond Good and Evil to describe the opposing principles, which determine human life and culture. Dualism
 * Apollo- son of Zeus, twin brother of Artemis, the Greek god of light, medicine, poetry, prophesy; represents all aspects of civilization and order. Sometimes described as (Phoebus) Apollo’s chariot riding across the sky
 * Dionysus- (Roman Bacchus), son of Zeus and mortal Semele, god of wine and drama

Force-hero: Achilles Resistance-hero: Hector
 * Dionysian
 * Force: Agamemnon’s will to power (thematic)
 * The warrior- thematic, a warrior
 * “Tiger at the Gates”
 * Apollonian
 * Apollo’s protégé
 * Protector- to serve and protect, defender of Troy- reason, civilization; a wife, a child…
 * The garrison of perishable joys- the pursuit of happiness

Apollonian Dionysian
 * Sophisticated, civilization- arts, literature, law, architecture, politics
 * Intelligence, reason
 * High-brow
 * Sober restraint, moderation
 * Enlightened, evolved
 * Happy sinners of Earth- physical things, drunken pride, lust
 * Nature, primitave
 * Instinct, impulse
 * Low-brow
 * Drunken abandon, passion
 * Bestial, atavistic
 * anarchy

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Iliad 2 Samuel
 * 1.Greeks form alliance against Trojans
 * 2.Gods support Greeks, Greeks win
 * 3.Gates of Troy
 * 4.Paris punished for taking Helen
 * 5.Hector is kind to Helen, even though she is a prisoner of war
 * 6.Agamemnon disrespects Chryses
 * 7.Paris steals Menalus’ wife, Helen
 * 8.The Trojans fled before Achilles
 * 9.Achilles argues over Chryseis
 * 10.Achilles allows Priam to stay with him
 * 11.Agamemnon lies with Chryseis
 * 12.Achilles, in a way, allows Petroclus to die
 * 13.The Gods kill Achilles, Thetis’ son
 * 14.Agamemnon was a powerful king
 * 15.Paris stole Helen from King Menalus
 * 16.Achilles-Zeus’ golden boy
 * 17.Hector tricked into death by Athena when she pretends to be his brother
 * 18.Achilles angers Zeus when he parades Hector’s body
 * 19.Dishonoring body biggest sign of disrespect
 * 20.Achilles crosses over from Dionysian to Apollonian when he wept with Priam
 * 21.Agamemnon takes Achilles’ girl
 * 22.The prophet comes to Agamemno to tell him the gods are unhappy
 * 23.Achilles shows kindness by returning Hector’s body
 * 24.Spoils of war
 * 25.Achilles favored by the gods
 * 26.Trojan War vs. Greeks
 * 27.After Hector is defeated, troy is burned to the ground
 * 1.Ammonites form an alliance against Israel
 * 2.Gods support Israelites
 * 3.Gates of Jerusalem
 * 4.David is punished for taking Bathsheba
 * 5.King David is kind to Mephiboseth
 * 6.Prince of Ammonites disrespects David’s envoys
 * 7.David steals Uriah’s wife, Bathsheba
 * 8.The Armenians fled before Joab
 * 9.David “steals” Bathsheba
 * 10.David allows Uriah to stay with him
 * 11.David lies with Bathsheba
 * 12.David allows Uriah to die
 * 13.God kills David’s son
 * 14.David was a powerful king
 * 15.David stole Bathsheba from Uriah
 * 16.David-Favored by God
 * 17.David has Uriah tricked into death by having him placed by “the most valiant warriors”
 * 18.David angers God when he has Uriah killed
 * 19.Cutting of the beard biggest sign of disrespect
 * 20.David crosses over when he wept for his son
 * 21.David takes Bathsheba
 * 22.Nathan tells David he made God unhappy
 * 23.David shows kindness by taking care of Mephibosheth
 * 24.Ammonites become subjects to David
 * 25.Samuel is chosen by God to choose the next king, David is chosen through Samuel by God to be the king
 * 26.David vs. Ammonites and hired soldiers
 * After Ammonites are beaten, David sends soldiers to ravage Rabbah


 * What is the difference between the prophets and their prophecy in Greek society (and thus, the Iliad) and the Judaic society of the Old Testament?
 * Is there any?
 * For Biblical prophets: “The life of a prophet was *one of great risk, consumed by an overwhelming sense of mission to say what must be said, sometimes almost against his own better judgment.”
 * Why do prophets tell their message?
 * “As “seers” only, who only foretell the future?”
 * “As “moralists”, revealing “what human beings owe to one another
 * grounded in what we owe to God
 * *expressed by the famous words “love thy neighbor as thyself”. (Lev. 19:18)