NOTES FROM FEBRUARY 28, 2007

Frame: a story within a story
Isocratic Irony: Descrepency between what is said and what is meant.
SYMPOSIUM:
-Speeches of Love, eros love
-Philia: Love, home of brotherly love is philidelphia.
-Sophia: Wisdom
-What do you get when you put phill on top of sophie=philosphy, or love of wisdon!
-Rhetoric is erotic

1st speaker: Phaedrus
2nd speaker: Pausanias (the lawyer)
the first thing to do is kill the lawyers!!
3rd speaker: Eryximachus
he wasn't supposed to be next, but Aristophanes got the hick-ups
4th speach: Aristophanes (english major, comic playwright)
5th speach: Agathon (tragic playwright)

Homoerotic- towards the males
but even worse....young boys and older men=pedafile
-the lover and the beloved= Erastes and the Eromenos
-why do they celebrate homosexuality??
-becasue women are inadequate
-men are more intellectually equal and more stimulating
-women get in the way, cause distractions and have children.
Asthetic- pleasing to the eye, beauty!

On the physical level--Socrates is the lover, and Alcibiades is the beloved.
On the spiritual level--Alcibiades is the lover, and Socrates is the beloved.

-Alcibiades turns into the lover becasue he explains love as discovering knowledge.
-Knowing carries an erotic charge: for example- "adam KNOWS his wife"

And as for the story we heard in class...all I can say is that I havent stopped thinking about that un-opened package since I heard the story...it's driving me absolutly CRAZY!!!

Notes for February 14th, 2007

Eros/ Cupid
Aphrodite/ Venus
Cupid/ Psychy.
=LUV
Aphrodite Urania: Born from urinos, godess of pure spiritual love(non sexual/physical)
Aphrodite Pandemos: Godess of the people. Godess of "Physical Love"

November 7th: Platos Symposeum. Actuall Valentines Day.
Soulmate: the person who makes the other part of your soul complete.

Hetaera-?? Look up

Erotic Possesion- To be possesed by Aphrodite.
Read page 243 for the test.

Notes for Monday the 12th

Who recognizeses these people?

Manon-2

Violetta-1

Odette-4

Anna Nicol Smith- 34.......But why do we know more about this person then the rest??

Courtesan: Class definition- High class prostitute

Sexsons def.- Someone who disappears from our cultural memory. A kept woman. and a staple in Roman Comedy.

Scread? Find the meaning.

"You don't throw the dart, the Gods guide your hand"

Notes for Friday, February 9th

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance or nature's changing course untrimmed.
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st.
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

Our assignment: To do something to someone else that they will remember twenty years from now.....it can not, however, put us in the police records!

-Squeaks the hamster was scared to death by "Uncle," from there he proceded to roll his own ball in fright down the stairs and died.

Antigone Charcteristics: familia affection, puts familt above law, and gets off to the idea of death.

Ismene Characteristics: puts law and rules before her familia obligations, doesnt want to have to fight city hall...or Creon. Very timid, has no gumption.

-Aescyliuse wrote a play called Lorestela
-Hubris- ego, falling back on himself, pride
-En-Theos: the god is inside you (appalo), from enthusiastic.
-Steiner says: his hypothesis is the principal greek myths are printed in the evolution of our language, and grammers in particular!

Notes From Wednesday, February 7th

Oue Extensive Homeowork Assignments:
-Read and comment on someone's blog.
-Find one page by choice or random and read it closely...then blog it.
-Read the introduction material for Antigones for the test!!
-Look at Carly's Page for a great summary and translation for Antigones.
-Pick on eof the five (men and women, age and youth, individual and society, living and dead,
men and gods) to read about in Antigones and blog it.

MYTHOS- A greek word meaning strory...a.k.a-myth
TRAGEDY- its all in the family.

NOTES FROM FEBRUARY 2, 2007

--How to immortilize any day: Find tge extraordinary in the everyday ordinary.

--We are all heros- it's simply heroic to wake up and face the days obsticles.

--June 16, 1904 is Bloomsday in Dublin.

--Today was groundhogs day, as well as the aztec new year, for the catholics it is the purification of the virgin, Dr. Sexson's 43rd wedding anniversery, and my birthday! Which for those of of you weren't in class today, on the tesy will most likely be that I was born on Feb. 2nd, 1987 in Grandjunction Colorado at 7 am.

--Holiday= holy day

--From the Homeric Humns: DEMETER

--Barley water and pennyroyal are the food and drink of the gods.

--To change life something must be said, shown, and done. But we will never know, or shouldn't want to know what they were becasue then is wouldn't be a secret.

--The greek word...DROMENON- something that is done. Sounds like drama, which is all that greek houses are about, all about drama!