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- there where a lot of _______in ancient greece form 500-400 BC
- plays
- what do u need to learn a language?
- 1. think symbollically 2. gestures and body language 3. associative skills
- what is an allegory?
- a story in which the charachters, sttings, events, actions, and elements all sumbolize something
- henry bergson wrote what?
- la rire (or laughter)
- what does the sleeping in the epic of gilgamesh symbolize?
- death
- who wrote the collective unconcious theory?
- carl jung
- why do we have myths?
- 1. to explain things that seem impossible 2. to get rid of fear 3. to eliminate guilt 4. make you live a better life/ better person
- what kind of plays are there
- tragedy, comedy, tragi-comedy
- what was plato's academy?
- a school he started; taught philosophy, math, and science
- how many times did sophacles win 1st placwe at a competition?
- 24 times
- what are the most used interpretations of the "allegory of the cave"?
- 1. our everyday lives--shadow vs. substance 2. science 3. politics 4. philosopher king
- what does the theory of collective unconcious state?
- we all share certain things in oiur unconscious state
- what do myths try to answer?
- answer qyestions::::why r we here, how did we get here, where r we going
- what r the 3 states of mind?
- concious, unconsious, subconsious
- where does laughter come from?
- 1. repetition 2. inversion 3. missunderstandings
- xanthippe is an _______
- socrates wife; a bad tempered woman
- when did broughel live?
- 1530-1569
- what is the pattern of new comedy?
- 1. boy meets girl 2. they fall in love 3. conflict 4. overcome problem 5. marriage
- friedrich nietzsche wrote what?
- a thesis state ment; adn a book called "the birth of tragedy"
- how long did plato spend teaching?
- 20 years
- what did aristotle thing was the best play?
- oedipus rex
- who was sophacles?
- playwright (oedipus rex); born during war time
- what is old comedy?
- dirty comedy ex; lysistrata, the frogs, the clouds, the birds
- give an example of brueghels sence of humor
- put anachronisms in paintings
- what does "rex" mean?
- the king
- archetype...
- inherited ideas form the experience of the human race that r present in the unconscious of every individual
- which cultures have mythology?
- all of them
- what was plato's goal for his students?
- to become philosopher kings
- who worte "poetics"?
- aristotle
- in what form was the republic?
- a dialogue
- what did socrates write?
- nothing
- what did sophocles dare to do?
- have more than 2 actors in his plays
- how many plays did sophacles write? how many survived?
- 120::::7
- why was language created?
- the need to communicate
- what was a "hypokrite" in ancient greek?
- an actor
- who was peter brueghel?
- a flemish artist and old master
- what was Plato's "apology"?
- a book about socrates trial (a defece
- what was the grove of academus?
- a school outside athens was located here
- when did plato die?
- about 348 BCE.
- when did wagner live?
- mid 1800's
- a master narrative is...(3 parts)
- 1. a story w/control of your life 2. has belief in your life 3. how u live your life 3. how
- how do myths start?
- w/deaths
- what was the socratic method?
- an extreme process of Q & A (like a discussion)
- when did jung live?
- 1875-1961