Dear Mythology Kids,
YOUR MOSAICS ARE PHENOMENAL! I am so proud of you!
If you missed class, we completed the following:
1. We reviewed the first half of the "Heracles" myth, and then returned to the irony found within the myth. Each student recorded a list of the aspects on the reverse side of the storyboard.
2. We then continued with the storyboard, focusing specifically on the 12 labors of Heracles. Please obtain this information from a peer.
HOMEWORK:
1. Please read "Heracles" in your book pgs. 166-180 (I think...if I am wrong look up "Heracles" in your table of contents). If you have your own copy of the book, then refer to pages 222-244.
2. Review the questions for your quiz on Friday. I have included them for you below. Remember that you will randomly pull two of the questions from the following list.
Don't forget that you will have a QUIZ
covering Heracles as a paradox, and the irony found within the myth
of "Heracles," and how those
aspects add to the pathos experienced by our hero. This will be a
take-home assessment. You will need to support your points will textual
evidence. You may use your annotated article regarding Hercules and/or
your textbook. The internet is not an available option.
"How do I prepare for the quiz, Crampton?"
"Make sure you have read the myth of Heracles found on page 166 in your textbook. In addition, review the storyboard that we worked on in class on today!
"Will there be extra credit for this quiz?"
"Absolutely! I have listed the questions below. Respond to each one as if you were taking the actual quiz. Originally, I was going to have you complete one of the six questions, but I have changed my mind. You will answer two of the six listed. If you review this way, you will clearly be successful, as you will have two of the six included below, you just don't know which two. You are to discuss the irony found in each excerpt from the myth of “Heracles,” and how the irony adds to the pathos experienced by Heracles. Please be thorough in your response; assume that your audience has no schema on the character of Heracles. Cut and paste the questions into a Word document, and then respond to them on your computer.
DRAMATIC....the audience knows what the characters do not!
SITUATIONAL.....action occurs that the audience was not anticipating
VERBAL....words possess an opposite meaning to what is said
1.) Heracles
represents a paradoxical character, in that he represents the extremes
to human behavior. He is a good guy and a terrible villain. He is
extremely intelligent; yet, at the same time he is daft. Discuss a
minimum of two paradoxical features regarding his story, and why these
traits add to his already significant pathos.
2.) "The
goddess drove Heracles temporally mad, and he killed his children,
Megara as well—thinking they were either wild beasts or enemies of
Thebes. When his sanity returned, Heracles exiled himself from Thebes
for his crime. He traveled to Delphi to ask the oracle how best to atone
for his crime. The priestess of the oracle instructed Heracles to go
to Tiryns and perform any 10 labors devised for him by King Eurystheus."
3.)" Eurystheus
directed Heracles to kill the Lernaean Hydra (water snake) as his
second labor. Heracles slew the beast by chopping off its immortal head
and burying the still-hissing head under a rock. Before returning to
Tiryns, Heracles dipped his arrows in the poisonous blood of the Hydra.
Thereafter, anyone wounded with one of these arrows would die."
4.) "The
goddess sent two poisonous serpents with flaming eyes to destroy both
Heracles and his half-brother Iphicles. Yet the mighty infant seized
one in each hand and easily strangled the serpents, thinking they were
toys he found great glee in his kill of the snakes."
5.) "The
perfect host, Admetus entertained his guest while hiding the fact that
he was mourning for his wife, Alcestis. When Heracles discovered his
host’s secret, he rushed to Alcestis tomb. Upon bringing her back to
Admetus, the host promptly died."
