30. Jun, 2010 
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The epic hero has a double role. He (there are no epical woman heroes as far as I know) is an individual person with an habitual virtue from which his exploits flow, and he is representative of the group to whom the exploit is important. Since the performance of the exploit is important because of [...]
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The two concepts “imitation” and “pity and fear” are at the heart of Aristotle’s Poetics.
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Phaedrus addresses rhetoric and right living and closes with a discussion of writing — all springing from the topic of love.
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Euripides’ Medea suggests that in order for the patriarchy to understand its inherent double standards, one must strike it at its very center: those who would continue its tradition.
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When Sophocles wrote Oedipus Rex, the cultural and intellectual zeitgeist of Athens was undergoing a paradigm shift.
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