With the people around you, discuss the given poem from yesterday and determine possible tenet(s) for Greek literature Bellwork

750 BC – 146 BC Ancient Greek ChangCJ MichelleMonika

● Constant innovation of government -Rise of democracy Multiple major wars -Peloponnesian,Persian, Spartan, Ionian Beginning of philosophical thought Historical Parallels

Notable Works and Authors The Iliad The Odyssey Antigone Oedipus Theogony Medea Greek myths Aristotle Sophocles Homer Lesbos Euripides Plato Socrates Euclid Hippocrates

Literature involved lots of interaction with higher beings Peoples lives revolved around religion SHIFT: Different religions → Consolidate into one Olympian Council People sacrificed food at every meal for the gods Tenet 1: Religion

From the Iliad, “Whoever obeys the gods, to him they particularly listen” (Homer).

With the idea of individual thought came the development of argument SHIFT: Political viewpoints → Rise of debate Tenet 2: The Art of Persuasion

“ I t was the rise of democratic forms of government that provided a great incentive to study and instruction in the arts of persuasion” (Lucas)

People allowed their emotions to lead them, sometimes over written laws SHIFT: Logic → Emotion Tenet 3: Emotional Guidance

Antigone rebels against her king to follow her heart. ISMENE I scorn them not, but to defy the State Or break her ordinance I have no skill. ANTIGONE A specious pretext. I will go alone To lap my dearest brother in the grave. ISMENE My poor, fond sister, how I fear for thee! ANTIGONE O waste no fears on me; look to thyself. (82-85)

Using heroic characters, the Greeks touched on contemporary issues in multiple time periods Shift: Gods → Humans Myths taught lessons which would teach people how to behave Tenet 4: The First Heroes

From The Odyssey, “They came crowding out of their quarters, torch in hand, flung their arms around Odysseus, hugged him, home at last, and kissed his head and shoulders seized his hands, and he overcame by a lovely longing broke down and wept...over in his heart he knew them one and all” (Homer 454).

Greeks were driven to understand the world around them SHIFT: Simple → Complex SHIFT: Spoken word → Written word Came up with stories/theories (myths) to explain nature’s workings Philosophy, science, and religion were one and the same Tenet 5: Inquiry

● Leucippus and Democritus came up with the beginnings of atomic theory ● Plato advanced the belief of the afterlife

● What started as religious chants for Dionysus evolved into the first tragedies ● Shift: Idea to convey emotional thought  refined it into specific branches; Tragedy and Comedy ● Comedies are thought to have similar beginnings ● Greeks created the first genres of writing: epics, tragedies, and comedies Tenet 6: Drama

● “Greek tragedy provides no explicit answers for the sufferings of humanity, but it...shows how they happen and how they may be borne.” (Galens) ● “Later comedy relied less on satire and mythology and more on human relations among the Greek common people” (Galens) ● Epics

Narcissus & Eurydice

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