Individual Presentaions Session 3

17) Luke- anything men love more than anything is power.
-Did women really need men?
-Sex seemed to be "running" men's' lives
-Through life, pain, miseries; it would be better to be dead. (Sophocles)
-Love of people
-Metamorphoses- love life "I shall have life!"

18) Ashley- Homeric Hymns (Demeter version)
-Women's introduction into the right of passage
-Issues of women being relationships, fertility, death
-Issues of men being war, etc...
-Both men and women needing to be part of heroic quests
-Human oppression = based on individual personalities
-In conclusion, we all need to have characteristics of men and women
-Final though: Poem titled Tiger Lily written by Ashley

19) Melissa- Scapegoat
-39,000 books with keyword scapegoat when "scapegoat" is googled
-Renee Girard - Scapegoat (Bacchae of Euripides)
-"The secret to success is knowing who to blame for your failures."
-5 ways to avoid being a scapegoat. (Symmetrization's)
1) Avoid being the new guy in town.
2) Be on time...
3) Avoid winning the game...
4) Avoid being different in any way.
5) Avoid being well liked
-"A good scapegoat is nearly as welcome as a solution to the problem."


20) Brian- Scapegoats
-Loved the Ace Ventura: Pet Detective excerpt
-Dolphins in the Superbowl...Finkle messing up the winning kick!
-Brian's scapegoat experience in Harrison Hall
-The notion of "scapegoating" is the best example of the past possessing the future.
-Scapegoating is the best wall humanity can relate to each other. WE ALL make mistakes, we all "scapegoat."

21) Alex- 5 conflicts of Antigones in relation to classic movies
-5 movies
1) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's nest = individual vs. society
2) Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs = old vs. young
3) Raiders of the lost Ark = gods vs. humans
4) Frankenstein = dead vs. living
5) My Fair Lady = men vs. women


22) Danielle- Triple Goddess
1) One person with three different characteristics. Maybe birth, love, and death.
2) Three different people as one. Ex. Mother, daughter, and grandmother.
-White Goddess by Robert Graves

Triple crescentTriple goddess

23) John - science fiction is an extension of mythology.

24) Serita- The Doors and their Jim Morrison comparison to Dionysus.
-Mission to see the world in a different light.
-Morrison used drugs, but whatever!
-Open mindness
-The End From Oedipus.
-Freedom
-To become a classic, you must invoke the classics.

The End

This is the end, beautiful friend
This is the end, my only friend
The end of our elaborate plans
The end of everything that stands
The end.

No safety or surprise
The end
I'll never look into your eyes again

Can you picture what will be
So limitless and free
Desperately in need of some stranger's hand
In a desperate land

Lost in a Roman wilderness of pain
And all the children are insane
All the children are insane
Waiting for the summer rain
There's danger on the edge of town
Ride the King's highway
Weird scenes inside the gold mine
Ride the highway west, baby

Ride the snake
Ride the snake
To the lake
To the Lake

The ancient lake, baby
The snake is long
Seven miles
Ride a snake

He's old
And his skin is cold
The west is the best
The west is the best
Get here and we'll do the rest

The blue bus is calling us
The blue bus is calling us
Driver, where are you taking us?

The killer awoke before dawn
He put his boots on
He took a face from the ancient gallery
And he walked on down the hall

He went into the room where his sister lived
And then he paid a visit to his brother
And then he walked on down the hall
And he came to a door
And he looked inside
Father
Yea son?
I want to kill you
Mother, I want to...

C'mon baby, take a chance with us (times 3)
And meet me at the back of the blue bus
Doin' a blue rock on a blue bus
Doin' a blue rock. C'mon, yeah
Kill, kill, kill, kill, kill, kill.

This is the end, beautiful friend
This is the end, my only friend
The end

It hurts to set you free
But you'll never follow me

The end of laughter and soft lies
The end of nights we tried to die

This is the end!

(Lyrics URL: http://www.alwaysontherun.net/doors.htm#k)

Session 2 of Individual Presentations

10) Me: Janet-My Terpsichore. Dance is my life and first love of my life. Janet was my inspiration to dance, therefore, Janet was the Terpsichore of my story. (Coincidentally, Terpsichore is the muse of dance.)
-Terpsichore, Muse of Music and Dance by Jean-Marc Nattier (Picture below)

11) Dan - Daedalus and Icarus. Kansas - Carry on Wayword Son
(Here is the URL to a YouTube video of this song performed by Kansas: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB17uWuBrL0)

12) Jared- Calvin (Comic strip) vs. Antigones
-Many times the Comic Calvin and Hobbes represents the 5 conflicts of society as in Antigones.

• Individual vs Society
• Old vs Young
• Dead vs Living
• Gods vs humans
• Men vs. women

13) John: Metamorphoses-most of the stories in the Metamorphoses reflect things that happen in daily life.

14) John: (Metamorphoses) Catcher in the Rye and the 5 conflicts of Antigone

15) William - Immortality
-The way people remain immortal, is through the stories they tell. If you want to be immortal, not necessarily in the flesh and breathing state but your sole, TELL STORIES!

16) Mick - Walkabout - a book that references all the stuff we talked about.
-Through walking, you gain knowledge. Your brain is on constant thinking mode.

Session One of Individual Projects

1) Allison: Lysistrata
-Why can women strike on men?
-Can this strike be reversed? Men strike on women?
-Modernization
-Patriarichal society
* On the test: What character from Ovid did Allison's character represent?

2) Chase: Jesus vs Dionysus

"The Eyes of Christ" by Edwin Tuts Michelangelo

3) Hannah: Lysistrata

-Modern examples of Lyistrata

-Poems comparing women to the sea, to a dog, and a bee.

4) Brittany: Grandmother's Story on the phone, Minnie Mouse photograph, Bob the rat.

• Breaking rule...it happened in the past and it happens now. Why is breaking the rules so acceptional sometimes? Why is breaking rules a part of literature and life?

5) Megan: There is love in all the stories tha we read.

• Cupid and Psyche = confusion and love

6) Jesse: I loved the acting in this presentation! Very awesome!

-----> (Moms House)

7) Jan: Comparison of Dionysus to the Virginia tech assassin

8) Brittini: Roles of women in our books

• Comparison of women figures in classic lit books to popular figures.

9) Barbara: story of the old woman in the park, classical literature stories, ducks, grandson's.

Our Group Presentation

Stichomythia - Ross, Jan, John, Danielle, Allison and Me
Relating George Bush to each...
1) Lysistrata
2) The Bacchae
3) Antigones

Well you have already seen our group presentation therefore I will only include the introductions of each piece that I wrote. I think by reading them you will understand what our presentation was kind of about.
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Lysistrata
It was a cold and bitter day for President George W. Bush when Cindy Sheehan, an outraged mother victimized by the death of her son whom died in Iraq and first lady Laura Bush, were injected with a dose of Lysistrata. They were out to stop the president and Dick Cheney from supporting the war. But how were they going to stop these two bull-headed politicians? In this stichomythic and comical representation of Laura Bush: The New Age Lysistrata, George W. will be played by…

The Bacchae
Earlier today Barbara Bush, President Bush’s mother and her friends went to a Democrat Rally. Once there, they all got very drunk on mimosa’s and extremely dry martinis. Coincidentally, George W. went to spy on his mother and the other evil doers. Upon discovering the spy, Barbara and her friends mistook George W. for a rat and sparagmosed him. In The Bacchae Retelling, Barbara will be played by….

The scene opens with Barbara bringing the supposed rat home to show her husband, George Sr.
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Poor George!!!!!

The Golden Ass

Cupid and Psyche







QUE BONITA!!! (That's "what beautiful" in Spanish.)

(There is no real "moral of the story" in the Metamorphoses. But if you need one: 1) Shit happens and 2) Things change.)

Lucius changes into an Ass. New version of Mr. Ed. (Not really, but sort of.)
-Transformations or "Metamorphoses" of Lucius.

THE ONLY MORAL OF THE STORY IS THE STORY!
-Experience the story by reading the story itself.
~Same as in the Golden Ass...life isn't a picnic for an Ass.

*Black Swan Green


Hyrosgomos - sacred marriage
*Romeo and Juliet and Braveheart

To change back to human he must eat roses...and more, but in a nut shell! *Frame
~Fairytale=degenerate myth.
The best aphrodisiac is storytelling.

Storytelling

URL for photo:http://www.nyu.edu/humanities.council/workshops/storytelling/decameron1.jpg

Review Questions for the 2nd test

1) What birds represent Procne and Philomela?
-Procne=swallow and Philomela=nightingale

2) Ate: Infatuation beyond the point of being ruined

3) Who was the original artisan? Daedalus (craftsmen)

4) Who is the god of sleep, dreams, and disguise? Morpheus

5) What should we avoid at all costs? **Old people (marginal)

6) What is Aristophanes theory on soul mates?
-In terms of Symposium, people were becoming too much to handle, so the God's split the soul mates apart.

7) Tragedy emphasizes the individual.
Comedy emphasizes the society.

8) According to Plato, how does one reach mortality of the soul?
-** Virtue and knowledge

9) Everything Plato learned about love, he learned from a woman named Diotima.

10) What is Socratic irony? - Claiming to know nuthin'...but actually knowing everything.

11) What does Icarus fail to do to fall to his demise? Flew too close to the sun and melted his wax wings.

12) Difference between Arachne and Minerva: Arachne portrayed the good things the God's did and Minerva portrayed victims of the God's.

13) Final Frame in Velazquez "The Spinners?"
-Europa's rape or abduction.

14)Pentheus: "man of constant sorrow"

15) How is Cadmeus related to Pentheus? Grandfather

16) Why should Ulysses deserve the arms of Achilles? -Ulysses's started in all.

17) What came out of the ground in the Bacchae when they hit the ground?

18) Boy wants girl - center of new comedy

19) What Shakespeare play was partly inspired by Tiresias and Procne? Titus Andronicus

20) What is anagnersis - (recognition or critical moment of discovery)

21) What is the first instance of framing in the Metamorphoses? - Story of Pan and Syrinx

22) What is grace? - Awareness of God's Presence in the world.

23) What does omophaglia? -eating of live flesh

24)Love is the child of -Poverty and contrivance.

25) What did Daphne turn into? Laurel tree

26) How old will Metamorphoses be in 2008? 2000 years old

27) Naso = "nose"

28) Why couldn't Aristophanes give his speech? - Terrible case of hiccups

Notes (Boring)

Something ending always means something beginning. "Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end." ~Semisonic
~Anyone as stupid as a 15 year old girl...is an 18 year old boy. (HAHA)
*Arachne - pg 180, Invasions of the God's

The Fable of Arachne by Velazquez
Her great weavings of how the God's treated immortals, or humans. Unjust.

A true work of art is:
*Whole
*Harmonious
*Radiant
-Stand back from your creation and look at the frame

Pygmalion - Pretty Woman (Pg 335)
Julia Roberts as the "Pretty Woman" or Vivian.

Finally, there is nothing that doesn't have darkness.

My Favorite Ovid lines!

For March 30th, we were asked to choose our favorite lines out of The Metamorphoses of Ovid.
At first I chose the description of how the earth felt when Cesar was murdered.
(Pg 545)
"They say the hideous crime was presaged by
the clash of arms among dark clouds, and horns
and trumpets blaring horribly. The sun's
own orb was sorrowing; the light it shed
on frightened earth was lurid. Firebrands
would often flash beneath the stars; and gusts
of rain would often carry drops of blood.
The Morning Star was blue-gray, and his face
showed russet-colored blotches; and blood stained
the chariot of Luna. ....."
~I loved these lines because of the descriptive language it presents. Yes, the horrendous affects Cesar's' death created were terrible, but the way Ovid writes the situation is beautiful.

In the end, I chose lines from Book I, in the story of Apollo and Daphne.
(pg 25)
"And even as my head is ever young,
and my hair ever long, may you, unshorn,
wear your leaves, too, forever: never lose
that loveliness, o laurel, which is yours!"
~(Much shorter, really only four lines! :)) These lines should mean something to everyone. It describes undying beauty in everyone. No matter who you are, what you look like, etc... EVERYONE IS BEAUTIFUL!!!

Redemptive Power of Art

Daedalus and Icarus pg 254
-Set his mind in the quest of unknown art
"But Daedalus was weary; by this time
he'd been exiled in Crete too long; he pined
for his own land; but he was blocked - the sea
stood in his way. "Through Minos bars escape
by land our waves," he said, "I still can take
the sky - there lies my path. Though he owns all,
he does not own the air!" At once he starts
to work on unknown arts, to alter nature." Metamorphoses of Ovid

M.C. Escher
What is the path to unknown art? What is unknown art for that matter? The picture above is a piece by M.C. Escher. Escher was an artist that produced pieces that created optical illusions. I think this "optical illusion" greatly represents the idea of unknown art.


Buddha as a baby say:
-people who kept from getting old
-People who kept from getting sick
-people who kept from dieing



Ovid Influenced Shakespeare!

Well, I guess by this time in the semester, we all know that...But the fact of the matter is, Ovid influenced ALL major writers after his time!

Imagination needs an open mind!