MARIA LEA G.

CALIBOSO AUGUST 20, 2022

2GB- BS CRIMINOLOGY

USING A GRAPHIC ORGANIZER, ILLUSTRATE ANCIENT WORKS OF LITERATURE AND THEIR

CORRESPONDING SIGNIFICANT LITERARY CREATION.

HIPPOLYTUS-
THE ODYSSEY- (The play begins when the goddess Aphrodite
MEDEA-
(The Odyssey is such a timeless story not only appears and explains that she has grown angry.
(Medea is centered on Medea's calculated desire
for its terrifying monsters, rip-roaring action Hippolytus, she explains, the bastard son of
for revenge against her unfaithful husband. The
scenes, and wealth of information on Theseus, has devoted himself too fully to virginity
play is set in Corinth some time after Jason's quest
Mediterranean geography and legends but and the goddess Artemis, and arrogantly rejects
for the Golden Fleece, where he met Medea. The
also because it involves the irresistible plot the power of sexuality and desire. As a result,
play begins with Medea in a blind rage towards
line of a worthy hero trying desperately to Aphrodite says, she has caused Phaidra, Theseus’
Jason for arranging to marry Glauce, the daughter
get back to his city, his family, and his throne) wife and Hippolytus’ step-mother, to grow madly
of king Creon.)
in love with Hippolytus, which sets the tragic
course of events into motion.)

LYSISTRATA;
(The Lysistrata has behind it much suffering and a
ANTIGONE:
burning pity. Aristophanes had more than once
(Antigone came to symbolize democracy and
risked his civic rights and even his life in his battle
resonated with Greece's war of independence
for peace, and is now making his last appeal. It is
against the Ottoman Empire, as well as America's
owing to this background of intense feeling that
struggle against communist Soviet Russia during
the Lysistrata becomes not exactly a great comedy,
the Cold WaR)
but a great play, making its appeal not to laughter
alone but also to deeper things than laughter.)