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GE ELEC 02 Great Books (7:30 - 10:30,Thu)

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Activity #3

1. What is an epic?

 An epic is a long narrative poem that is raised and stately in topic, tone, and style. As a literary
device, an epic celebrates courageous deeds and all things considered (or even vastly) significant
events. An epic for the most part focuses around the undertakings of a legend or a hero who has
characteristics that are godlike or divine, and on whose very fate frequently relies upon the fate
of a clan, country, or in some cases the entire of mankind. For instance, the Iliad, the Odyssey,
and the Aeneid are viewed as important epics in western world literature, albeit this literary
device has been used across regions and societies.

2. Write a brief summary of The Illiad and The Odyssey

 Homer is the author of The Iliad and The Odyssey, the two greatest Greek legendary poems. It
has been said that nothing is had some significant awareness of Homer personally; it isn't even
known for specific whether there is just a single genuine author of these two works. Homer is
remembered to have been an Ionian from the ninth or eighth century B.C. While hirtorians
argue about the man, his effect on writing, history, and reasoning is so critical as to be
 practically limitless. The Iliad recounts the tale of the Greek battle to save Helen, a Greek queen,
from her Trojan capturers. The Odyssey accepts any consequence of the city of Troy as its
beginning stage and crafts a new epic around the battle of one of those Greek warriors, the
legend Odysseus. These stories depict events of the Greek Bronze Age, during which numerous
groundworks of Greek culture were first settled. The Iliad and the Odyssey mix events from
Greek history, folklore, and culture that uncover the unique perspective of this ancient
civilization and advancement. They are loaded with ethics about human feelings, and things like
vanity, pride, desire, and disrespect constantly return, consistently to the burden of the legend.
The Iliad relates the story of the Trojan War, about the conflict among Greece and Troy,
achieved by the seizing of the lovely Greek princess, Helen, by Paris. It recounts the adventures
of such incredible figures as Achilles, Ajax, and Odysseus. The Odyssey describes the resulting
return of the Greek legend Odysseus after the loss of the Trojans. On his return trip, Odysseus
overcomes such terrors as the Cyclops, a one-eyed beast; the Sirens, beautiful seductresses; and
Scylla and Charybdis, a dangerous stone and whirlpool. Waiting for him at home is his wife who
has stayed dedicated during his years in the war. Both the Iliad and the Odyssey have had
various variations, including a few film renditions of each.

3. What is the meaning of in medias res?

 In literature, beginning in medias res implies starting a story in the middle of the action and
addressing the reader's inquiries through flashbacks or discourse. For instance, a thrill ride that
beginnings in medias res could open with the analyst currently on the path of the killer.
Prominent examples incorporate Homer's stories the Iliad and the Odyssey, which Horace
portrays as beginning not ab ovo ("from the egg"), however in medias res since both avoid past
the set of experiences and flare-up of the Trojan Conflict. This literary device is taking Horace's
words what could be compared to the chicken preceding the egg.

4. Discuss briefly the following: Homer, Aeschylus, Euripides, Aristophanes, Anacreon, Plato, and
Simonides

The power of the Greek and Roman human progress was chiefly because of their strong information and
logical bases that have been helping the entire world. Greeks and Romans are the ones who traded
science and information to the old world and, surprisingly, the advanced one. In medicine, explicitly, a
great deal of what was a typical reality for them in the past is rediscovered today as a genuinely new
thing. The greater part of what was composed around then has been republished large number of times
to help the current and people in the future. Consequently, let us in on about the finest authors of this
progress through exploring the following most well known Greek authors of all time.

Homer

Homer, (thrived ninth or eighth century BCE, Ionia?), old Greek artist, author of the Iliad and the
Odyssey. However barely anything is known about his life, custom holds that Homer was visually
impaired. The antiquated Greeks ascribed to him the incredible poems the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Present day researchers by and large concur that he made (however was not the first maker of) the Iliad,
in all likelihood depending on oral customs, and basically propelled the composition of the Odyssey. The
Iliad, set during the Trojan Conflict, recounts the tale of the fury of Achilles. The Odyssey recounts the
account of Odysseus as he voyages home from the conflict. The two stories gave the premise of Greek
culture and education in the Old style age, and they have stayed among the main poems of the
European practice. The style for their arrangement has been for quite some time discussed.

Aeschyus

Aeschylus, (born 525/524 — died on 456/455 BC, Gela, Sicily) known as a tragic dramatist. He battled
with the Athenian armed force at Long distance race (490) and in 484 accomplished the first of his
numerous triumphs at the major dramatical rivalry in Athens. He composed more than 80 plays,
however just 7 are surviving; the earliest of these, Persians, was acted in 472 BC. Different plays that
endure are the Oresteia trilogy (Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, and The Eumenides), Seven Against
Thebes, The Suppliants, and Prometheus Bound. Considered the father of Greek tragic show, he added a
second entertainer to the exhibition, an advancement that empowered the later improvement of
discourse and made genuine dramatical activity. He was the first of the three famous Greek dramatists,
going before Sophocles and Euripides.

Euripides
Euripides , (484 - 406 BC), Greek writer. With Aeschylus and Sophocles, he is perceived as one of Athens'
three famous playwrights. A partner of the scholar Anaxagoras, he communicated his inquiries
concerning Greek religion in his plays. Starting in 455, he was over and over decided to contend in the
dramatical celebration of Dionysus; he won his most memorable victory in 441. He contended multiple
times, composing four plays for each event. Of his 92 plays, around 19 make due, including Medea (431),
Hippolytus (428), Electra (418), The Trojan Women (415), Ion (413), Iphigenia at Aulis (406), and The
Bacchae (406). A considerable lot of his plays incorporate preambles and depend on a deus ex machina.
Dissimilar to Aeschylus and Sophocles, Euripides made his characters' tragic fate stem primarily from
their own defective qualities and uncontrolled interests. In his plays opportunity, turmoil, and human
silliness and corruption much of the time bring about clearly negligible experiencing that is looked on
with aloofness by the divine beings.

Aristophanes

Aristophanes, (c. 450—388 BC), is a famous Greek writer. An Athenian, he started his profession as a
comic writer in 427. He composed around 40 plays, of which 11 make due, including The Mists (423),
The Wasps (422), The Birds (414), Lysistrata (411), and The Frogs (405). A large portion of the plays
embody the Old Comedy (of which they are the main surviving delegates), where mime, chorus, and
burlesque were significant highlights. His satire, wit, and hardhearted effective critique made him the
best comic playwright of old Greece.

Anacreon

Anacreon (582 - 485 BC) was a Greek poem writer, remarkable for his drinking melodies and suggestive
sonnets. Later Greeks remembered him for the standard rundown of Nine Lyric Poets. Anacreon
composed all of his verse in the antiquated Ionic dialect. Like all early verse, it was created to be sung or
presented to the backup of music, typically the lyre. Anacreon's poem addressed widespread subjects of
affection, captivation, frustration, party, gatherings, celebrations and the perceptions of regular
individuals and life.
Plato

The most famous student of the Greek scholar Socrates was Plato, who was brought into the world
around the year 427 BC in Athens, Greece. The vast majority of what we realize today about Socrates
came from his students like Plato, who composed works after his demise to enlighten his life and
lessons. Plato's school, called The Academy, is additionally where we get our ideas of education and
instructional method, or the review and practice of schooling. Plato's prior works will quite often focus
on illustrations straightforwardly acquired from his educator. Truth be told, Socrates is generally the
principal character and the subjects typically focus on Socrates' examples. The most well known of the
Socratic Dialogues is the Apology wherein the personality of Socrates guards his convictions against the
charges of the Athenian court. The following time is alluded to as Plato's Middle Period. During this
period, the personality of Socrates actually stays as an imaginary vehicle through which to contend
philosophical ideas however he begins to retreat out of spotlight. Plato's most well known works were
composed during this time, including the Republic, the Symposium, and Phaedo. He utilizes these
discoursed to investigate philosophical ideas like government, love, and the spirit. Once more in Plato's
later years, Socrates retreated out of spotlight and turned into an exceptionally minor person in these
works. In imaginative works, for example, Parmenides and Theaetetus, Plato questions the mysteries of
religion and knowledge.

Simonides

Simonides is a legendary Greek artist hailing from the island of Chiefs, off the shore of Attica. He lived
during the turn of the sixth and fifth hundreds of years BC. Unlike Pindar, Simonides involved an ironic
and in some cases perky tone in his verse, rather than Pindar's high seriousness. He was additionally
clearly known for his voracity, in that he requested pay for his verse. This infers the interest for pay from
the fifth century skeptics - declared educators of wisdom in return for cash. Simonides was the uncle of
Bacchylides, the popular Greek poem writer. Simonides was renowned for his memory. Cicero in De
Oratore recaps a great story of Simonides interfering with one of his recitations with a well known ruler,
however he was called external momentarily by two men, just for the structure to come crashing down
killing everybody inside. Simonides had the option to review the collections of individuals inside in view
of where they sat, as he believed an orderly mind joined with a pictographic story in the brain is the
most ideal way to review things (review Plato's Meno). Quintilian discloses everything and recognition of
Simonides' ability to recall.

5. Discuss briefly the following: Virgil, Ovid, Catullus, Horace, Lucan, and Martial

Roman writers didn't simply examine phislosopy, they likewise told stories of adoration and war and
made poetry that is as yet proclaimed as the absolute best exposition at any point composed. Poets in
Rome were regarded artists. Early Roman writing primarily examined military history, while later writing
was frequently composed for the sake of amusement and included misfortunes, comedies, and poetry.
Let us now dig into some of the most well-known poets of ancient roman literature.

Virgil

Virgil, or Vergil orig. Publius Vergilius Maro, born on Oct. 15, 70 BCE, Andes, close to Mantua — died on
Sept. 21, 19 BCE, Brundisium), Most prominent of Roman writers. The knowledgeable child of a
prosperous common rancher, Virgil carried on with a calm existence, however he at last turned into an
individual from the circle around Octavian (later Caesar Augustus) and was belittled by Maecenas. His
first significant work, the 10 pastoral Eclogues (42-37), might be perused as a prescience of serenity, and
one has even been read as a prediction of Christianity. The Georgics (37-30) highlight a Golden Age as
pragmatic objectives: the repopulation of country lands and the recovery of horticulture. His incredible
awe-inspiring, the Aeneid (started c. 29, yet incomplete at his demise), is one of the masterpieces of
world literature. A celebration of the establishing of Rome by the great Aeneas in line with Augustus,
whose combination of force in 31-30 brought together the Roman world, it likewise explores the themes
of war and the feeling of solitary love. In later hundreds of years his works were viewed in the Roman
Domain as essentially hallowed and sacred.

Ovid

Publius Ovidius Naso, referred to the present time as Ovid, is one more of old Rome's finest poets. His
most praised commitment to the scholarly expressions was his Metamorphoses, a long refrain poetic
text which retold old Greek and Roman legends as one long nonstop story succession, more than 900
lines in length. During the Renaissance, numerous craftsmen were gigantically propelled by the thriving
imagination of Ovid's Metamorphoses, including Titian, Poussin and the Pollaiuolo siblings, and his text
is brought alive and deified through their lively works of art. Other of his notable text are the Fasti, in
view of the construction of the agnostic Roman calendar, and Ars Amatoria (the Art of Adoration)

Horace

Horace, whose complete name as Quintus Horatius Flaccus, was one more antiquated Roman poet
whose voice has resonated over the entire course of time. A contemporary of Virgil, Horace was
perceived during his day as one of old Rome's most innovative and unique lyricists. Horace's most
famous work was his Odes, a progression of four books highlighting poems which explore various
subjects, including affection, fortitude, and psalms to the divine beings. He likewise composed a
progression of seventeen sonnets called Epodes, which explore love, governmental issues and parody,
and he even composed various melodies with a funny inclination. Horace's light and engaging writing
style was restored during the Renaissance time frame by different scholars including Petrarch and
Dante.

Catullus

Catullus (Gaius Valerius Catullus) composed short, engaging poems for antiquated Rome that focused in
on private, personal stories and experiences. This approach remained interestingly, with the incredible,
vainglorious and dramatic authentic stories we could generally connect with the verse of old Rome.
Catullus' numerous poems uncover private tales about the writer's fellowships with notable figures,
most prominently Julius Caesar, and tell stories of adoration, kinship and sexuality during a period of
liberal governmental issues and sexual opportunity. Humor, satire and humankind are viewed as his
most saving qualities, his poems actually make for carefree, engaging understanding today.

Lucan

Lucan was said to be one of the significant successors of Virgil in the class of Latin epc verse. Thusly, he
practiced areas of strength for an on later European epic and was viewed as moving to anti-monarchists.
In spite of the fact that he was a productive writer, his legendary on the nationwide conflict between
Julius Caesar and Pompey, covering the years 49-48 BCE, is his main enduring work. The poem, known as
Bellum ciuile (frequently spelled civile) or the Pharsalia, is a historical epic in the practice of the early
conservative epicists Naevius and Ennius. Lucan's concise life, coming full circle in constrained self
destruction, his relationship with the ruler Nero, the deficiency of his poem (it severs at 10.546), the
idea of his conservative feelings actually stimulate discussion. Lucan immediately collected adoration.
The Bellum ciuile was a school text all through the middle age period and was right on time into print
(1469).

Martial

Martial , Latin Marcus Valerius Martialis, (born c. AD 38/41, Bilbilis, Hispania — died c. 103), Roman
artist. Brought into the world in a Roman province in what is presently Spain, Military went to Rome as a
young fellow. There he connected with so much figures as Seneca, Lucan, and Juvenal and partook in the
support of the rulers Titus and Domitian. His initial verse, some damaged by gross hero worship of Titus,
was unexceptional. He is famous for his 12 books of epigrams (86-102?), a structure he for all intents
and purposes made. Pointed and frequently vulgar, they give an image of Roman culture during the
early domain that is momentous both for its fulfillment and for its exact depiction of human
weaknesses.