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by Olivia Hunt - 2007-07-06
A tragedy is ‘a serious drama typically describing a conflict between the protagonist and a superior force (as destiny) and having a sorrowful or disastrous conclusion that elicits pity or terror' (...
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by Olivia Hunt - 2007-07-06
In the book ‘Greek Tragedy' Bernhard Zimmermann points out that the achievement of the tragic playwright such as Euripides was measured ‘by the manner in which he elaborated the traditional framew...
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by Olivia Hunt - 2007-07-06
The sun is closely connected with sacrifice (Bataile 69). As we discussed in class, sacrifice is the act of something sacred, it is the change of an object from one stage of life to another. The great...
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by Olivia Hunt - 2007-07-06
People often hide their real feelings under a ‘mask', which they do not want to reveal. According to Nietzsche everyone needs a mask and Phaedre is not an exception. At the beginning of the play she...
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by Olivia Hunt - 2007-07-06
However, there exist another point of view and according to Barthes, ‘the Racinian Eros ...is never sublimated; emerging fully armed, entirely finished, from pure vision, it is immobilized in the pe...
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by Olivia Hunt - 2007-07-06
The article analyzes the classical views of passion in "Phaedre", where the major character, Phaedre, feels love and passion to Hippolytus. Consequently, she is the ‘object of observation' in this a...
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by Olivia Hunt - 2007-07-06
Greek tragedy grew out of the public rituals of songs, sacrifice, dances and worship honouring Dionysus, the god of wine, vegetation and growth in the 5th century B.C. Euripides' tragic hero (or heroe...
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by - 2007-08-16
Greco-Roman Religion in both Greece and Rome was polytheistic, embracing a multitude of gods and goddesses, especially in the Roman Empire which tended to absorb the deities of the countries it ...
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by Philip Spires - 2007-12-13
One of the great, even reassuring, things about what the CD shops ignorantly label "Classical Music" is its freedom, its liberality, its democratic principles. Yes, it has its stars. Yes, it has...
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by Will Kalif - 2007-12-24
Todays classical guitars are reasonably durable and easy to care for but they are musical instruments that are carefully assembled from exotic woods; and there are some basic rules of care you sho...