All my notes from after test one on.....

We started the second part of the class with Frye's quote, "All literature is displaced myth

Tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and complete with certain magnitude- Aristotle- and the theme is that the only thing better than dying is to have never been born

Function of Dionysus and wine- to drive you aout of your mind

Dio- liquid and fleeting

Carpe diem- eat, drink, and be merry

origin of tragedy- dancing around the goat- Orestia

Furies- female agents of retribution who punish blood crimes

chthonic- of or pertaining to the underworld

Synax- old impotent man

hubrous- defiling a god

epiphany- sudden manifestation of a power or energy from another dimension that allows you to make connections, light bulb

Armagedon- battlefield of forces of light and dark

Clytie is mother of Orestes and Electra
Orestes complex is obsession with father adn Electa complex is obsession with mother

Judge- Athena, Is orestes guilty for killing his mother?

Prosecuting attornies are teh furies adn defense is Apollo

Redeming hero- Orestes

pg 136 of Orestia is metaphor of net, harness, chain, yoke

Cassandra destroyed by Apollo- he wants her- she makes deal to see the future but no one will believe her

Medea- secondary witch, unning, Hecate

pg. 161 Clytaemnestra confesses and conects killing to agriculture

pg 168 Aegisthus

Ecclesiastes, Joab, Proverbs- what is the difference in wisdom?

Apollo- light, sun, harmonious music

pg 240, Goddess Athena, judge, third party objective mediator

underline passage on pg 242-43

Furies, Harpies, Maenads, Bacchae

What happens when you are possessed by a greek god? en theos, theos (god) has entered you

Afestis adn Athena- child ericthoneous- Afestis came on her thigh, she wiped it off with a piece of wool and threw it down to earth where it landed adn a child was born

Conversation of Pietho/persuasion- athena pg 242-253

What replaced blood revenge in Greece? reason

pg 255 Aireopogus Hill- Aires- founded legal system

Orestia is a courtroom scene- question of jstification

pg 260 Justification of patriarchal legal system that we still use today

pg 258 Her killing doesn't evoke furies cuz not blood crime

Wisdom lit- tension b/w demo and theo

Polonius vs. Hamlet

Doctrine of Retributive Justice

Polonius- proverbial A, pragmatic and acceptable, parables

Hamlet- speculatative B

Futile- wind fog breath mist

Tyresius- knocked two copulating snakes apart adn gods make him spend five years as man and five years as woman to see who has more pleasurable sex- the woman does by far he says- no contest

pgs to read in Calosso; 243 273 383 337 359 387

383- Myth, precedent behind every action, Harmony understands myth- story dimension of the things we do.

Helen the slut says we suffer so someone will sing about us later. Gorgias of Leotoni wrote a rhetorical essay in her defense based on the power of language. He believes she was seduced by it adn could not resist, and that no one could have in her position. Just an interesting shortie that relates.

Deus ex machina- god of the machine

Memeorize Ecclesiastes Chp 12 for extra credit

Parable- expectations seem familiar, ordinary mundane- but if disrupted it becomes sacred, uncanny

Tanak- Hebrew Bible- Christian old testament

Gospels- 4 Narrative- life of Jesus sayings adn claims about him- Luke/Acts

Epistles- Paul

Apocalypse- revelation

esoteric- insiders

Matthew- why parables? secret saying kept from outsiders, uses ordinary language to talk

Sumaritan- pushes us to where we haven't been before, upsets expectations

God helps those who help them selves. self reliance, independence, and rugged individualism

screed- argument

Opposite of adultery- proactive?

Greek vs. Xian sin- greek remembering and forgetting adn Xian radical change in being

Mark 13- not historical biography- only kyragmatic testimonial

how would you feel if you believed the world would end and it didn't ?
I would feel like a dumb ass because I would probably try to do things I haven't done in fear of regret.

Apocalypse- Frye- catastrophic events are metaphors not to be taken literally- "taking away the viel" or destrucion of the way we see things

Cryptic- Book of Revelations, calendrically alagorically and numerically

One of the best movies of all time is teh seventh seal which is a variation of Rev 6

Literalists- people who reduce variability of experiance

Literal eschatology vs. realized

Kairos- moment of time is final discovery- time always teh same

Maggie- cave

Allison-Garden

Amy- mountains

Mick- Furnace