The "chorus" in plays represents "society" or it's popular views of a certain period of time in History.
Web site visited in class:
http://www.dreamingmethods.com/
What are the parallels between written literature and this digital media-based delivery of storytelling?
tells a story
evokes emotion
shares a moral message
has a climax
leaves questions behind
every one would experience it differently
invites personal action/awareness
similar to Plato, Aristotle, and Horus...at least SOME aspects of what each might suggest literature should contain.
Horace, why leave his beloved Queen Dido and found Rome?
Horace finds middle ground between the ruler of the time and his own opinions of what life should be like for himself and his countrymen... "anxiety about property has stained the mind, we can hope for the composition of poems?"
"Epicurianism" : not stoic, finding pleasure in the finer things in life....sensual pleasures. A theory about the value of things and how we engage with these things. Food: not just nourishment, but pleasurable.
Poetry transcends political values/environs....seeks universality. "small private wealth, large communal property."
The things he values: "good health, peace of mind, and poetry... a lack of commitment even to non-commitment."
He gestured what he could say in his writings and still stay safe.
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