Is Medea, a greek play, a comedy or a tradegy?
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Um, what he said....tragedy.
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what about something from 'my big fat greek wedding'? there's gotta be something funny from that movie that you could use, and it's pretty well-known.
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I show it to my Classical Civilisation class and it does follow the basic story. Most of the bits are in order and they all follow the basic plot. The best bits are Circe, Calypso and the Suitors Challenge. What it wont help you with is learning about Homer's use of language and story telling as you wont be reading it in his words. He mentions lots of other myths and legends that arent in the film version.\nOverall, I thought that the film was really good. It gives you visual help with the way that the book is plotted and helps to flesh out the characters. (PS Cyclops is really funny!).
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The Trojan War was between the Greeks and the Troy people
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You're right -- pick something classic and short.  How about Dickens' "Tale of Two Cities" or Oscar Wilde's "Picture of Dorian Gray" or Crane's "Red Badge of Courage" or a play like "School for Scandal" or "The Critic" (both by Richard Brindsley Sheridan)?
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OPA, My big fat Greek Wedding is both accurate and inaccurate. There use to be a time when Greeks would just marry Greeks, but not anymore. I think that the movie is just trying to put emphasis on the culture more than who they do and don't marry. I think it also portrays how close Greek families really try to be and are. So for the most part it was accurate.
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Crazy Fire is mistaken. King Midas was the one who wished for gold. Medusa is from Greek Mythology.\n\n"Medusa was a terrible monster who had laid waste to the country. She was once a beautiful maiden whose hair was her chief glory, but as she dared to vie in beauty with Athena, the goddess deprived her of her charms and changed her beautiful ringlets into hissing serpents. She became a cruel monster of so frightening an aspect that no living thing could behold her without being turned into stone. All around the cavern where she dwelt might be seen the stony figures of men and animals which had chanced to catch a glimpse of her and had been petrified with the sight. Perseus, favored by Athena and Hermes, the former of whom lent him her shield and the latter his winged shoes, approached Medusa while she slept, and taking care not to look directly at her, but guided by her image reflected in the bright shield which he bore, he cut off her head and gave it to Athena, who fixed it in the middle of her Aegis."
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creteon (the king)is the main character. he was greedy.
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we watched it in my english class. i thought it was interesting, i always prefer shakespeare spoken rather than reading it. denzel washington was really good in it, but my favorite by far was micheal keaton. he was hilarious.
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Perhaps you can derive your story from the history of Joan of Arc.....or perhaps from the play Medea by Euripides (although Male, often referred to as the early feminist and ridiculed for his plays)
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Well since Shakespere has a play out there called Henry V how about:\n\nTo Manipulate or Not to Manipulate, That is the question...
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The Greek Creation Myth
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When I was 13 years old I experienced classical Greek "catharsis," in which you identify so completely with the character in the drama you can't tell the difference between yourself and that (tragic) character.\n\nIn the drama, the character learns a priceless lesson.  28 years later (!) I saw this dramas again at age 40 or 41 and realized that this experience had been a lifesaver for me.  The shock and gratitude were overwhelming.
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This comes the Greek play Medea.  Medea was mad at her husband Jason (remember Jason & the Argonauts?) who left her & her kids for another woman.  To get even with him, she killed her kids.  The overall meaning is that you do something to punish someone else, but in the process you hurt yourself even more.
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please do not keep in mind the war of troy movie!believe me there are a lot of things wrong there and i can be sure of that as i am greek.Achilleas was son of the nymphe Thetis.he was imortal but with one mortal point on his body,his heal!wen he was a baby thetis hold him from his heal over the fire of imortality so that is why his heal was the only point that if he was injured he could die and that was the reason of his death.his war equipments was a gift from god ifestus the god of fire.
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The Italians continued the theatrical tradition of the Greeks, but their version included street players, and stock characters.  They called it the Commedia Del Arte.\n\nAnother answerer has mentioned his name, Pagliacci.  He is also called Harlequin.\n\nHe and another character, the ingenue,  are often mentioned in comments about drama, and other visual entertainment media.
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umm, it's a play\nTry www.sparknotes.com