CLASSICS 2E03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Peloponnesian War, Expulsion Of The Acadians, Euripides
21 Jul 2018
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Melos was neutral (city state: the trojan women produced this year (415) This war went on for 15 years. Thucydides on the siege of melos (cid:1009). 11(cid:1010) "a(cid:271)out the sa(cid:373)e ti(cid:373)e the melia(cid:374)s : we. War in the greek world from the perspective of women: the view of the conjured; the homeric hero"s as violent warlords, the pathos of women in war, the theme of living as worse than being dead. Hele(cid:374) tryi(cid:374)g to defe(cid:374)d her (cid:272)ase, does(cid:374)"t wa(cid:374)t to (cid:271)e killed. Trojan women need outlet for rage, so helen. Filming greek tragedy- compared to the play: women playing women, rather than men playing women. Large number of characters on the stage/ screen at once: no masks; lines not in verse; only partly sung. In cacoyannis fil, the acting is somewhere between what modern audiences expect and what ancient audience expect. Loud performance (ancient expect: not first attempt at making movie of greek tragedy.
