Neurotic!

I find it quite funny that Dr. Sexson said art comes from Neurotic people the other day. I was reading Lysistrata the other day and my boyfriend came up to me and asked what I was reading. I held up the book without even thinking about the cover. He's like,"they assign you porn in school! Are they crazy?" I just thought it was quite an appropriate comment because it is a very crazy book. It's pretty funny too. I let him read some of it and he was actually engaged in reading it. (That doesn't happen very often.) It just proves that the classics will live on forever!

Comedy is about the Community!

Although comedy may focus on one individual there is nothing shameful in comedy. The entire community is affected and entertained. The idea of comedy is that if it is human nature to do something then it is ok.

Old comedy contains certain elements

Politics

Obscenity

Death/ Rebirth

Celebration of Women

No limitations or Shame

They have to turn the world as we know it upside down. They have to make fun of the state for what they hold sacred.

Comedy deals with people who are worse than they are and tragedy deals with people who are better than they are.

Comedy comes from phallic procession. (don't google that one)

Comedy is carnal. Very vulgar and of the body and flesh.

Body-the physical structure and material substance of an animal or plant, living or dead.

Bawdy-indecent; lewd; obscene OR coarse or indecent talk or writing

(Both of those definitions come from dictionary.com)

Wizard of bOZeman!

"Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain." The Wizard of Oz says that to Dorothy, the Scarecrow, the Lion, and the Tin man when the dog pulls the curtain back. This is an example of a 3 level story. The first stage is belief, the second stage that belief is taken away and in the third stage you come to terms with it being taken away. Dorothy doesn't give up on her dream to go back to Kansas. She ends up getting back by clicking her heels three times!

Contrive- make something up

Poesis- make something up

Mythos + Logos = mythology~ story + truth

Philosophers are the greatest lovers. When you put Phil and Sophie together you get great things!

Comedy- A life that is shameful is better than no life at all! This is the way comedy is looked at.

The difference between old comedy and new comedy is pretty extensive. Old comedy deals with wars and politics while making the normal completely upside down. New comedy has a simple plot of boy wants girl, he can't have the girl, in the end he gets the girl. That's no fun now is it!?!

Wiki article on Old Comedy hhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Comedy#Old_Comedy

New Test material

Ok! We took the test and I hope we all did well. Now we are onto bigger and better things!

Symposium
The main topic of the symposium in Eros or love. Each person who gives a speech speaks of the God Eros or some aspect of love. The entire book is focused on love in some way. These men focus a lot on homosexuality and how every boy should have a male lover. This love should teach the boy and love him.
Homosexuality is celebrated in the Symposium for a number of reasons that we came up with. Men were considered equals in greek society. For a man to have a lover that is equal to him would be respectable. Women were only around to produce children. They also thought that men could teach eachother. Women weren't smart enough to do this.


VOCAB
frames- this is the story within the story. Can be compared to cocina dolls and russian nesting dolls. Dr. Sexon made a great example of this with the story of the lady on the plane. (I think that lady belonged in the looney bin)

Socratic Irony- the difference between what is said and what is meant.

Erastes- Lover- the older male who loves the younger male in Greek society

Eromenos- Beloved- the younger boy who recieves love in Greek society

Without Issue- long ago this meant without children

Aesthetic- perceptions about beauty- beauty

Tally- this is a coin in Roman culture