Group Presentations

Group 1 - This was my group. We started with the invocation of the muse and dedicated a song from Handel's Semele to Zeus and Semele's love which = Dionysus.

John and John represented many characters in their stichomythia:

• Old vs. Young
• The "old" John represented Tiresius, Zeus, Dr. Sexon, Steiner, and many other characters.
• The young John was a hubristic representation of Dionysus, and performed a rock concert for the ecstatic Baccantes.
• The Baccantes found a man in our midst and sparagmosed him with a cheese grater.
• When the messenger came in to tell us that we had killed a human, we had our moment of recognition (anagnorsis), well except Carrie who just didn't know him.
• The question I would like to see on the test is "What was on the cheese grater?" the answer is a crouching lioness.

2nd Group:

The three plays represented by this skit of present day interpretations of classic literature were:

• Antigone - Bush and daughters.
• The Bacchae - Mrs. Bush and G.W.
• Lysistrata - Bush was dressed as a corpse and as a woman.

3rd Group:

This was an great interpretation of Demeter running a kind of bar for the gods. There were two mortal characters involved Arachne (Barbara) and Antigone who said her secret was joy. There were many interwoven references to modern day occurances of classical references, and Sexon was Steiner who was in ate with Antigone.

• You have to show the truth, not tell it.
• Frame of stealing lines, Macbeth, 12th Knight, and Cleopatra

4th Group:

Each member picked thier own story from the Metamorphesis of Ovid and brought it out in skits of modern day interpretations. The stories included:

• Galaetea & Acis
• Phaethon
• Rape of Europa
• Iphis & Ianthe
• Daedalus and Icarus
• Also, the song sung by the Cyclops was inspired by Southpark.

5th Group:

Agon support group: Tiresius as shrink, Philomela - used a notepad for obvi0us reasons, Deadalus mourning Icarus, Antigone in a fit over Creon, and Agave still clueless.

• Antigone's family put the funk in disfunctional.
• The most important aspect of the skit was the notion of the scapegoat(Creon).

6th Group:

• Pg. 232 of Steiner
• Death vs. Living
• Men vs. Women
• Pg 255 was quoted
• Individual vs. Community - Yurtle the Turtle by Dr. Seus
• Pg. 19 of Antigone was quoted
• Man vs. God(s) - Stella award for a man who locked himself in a garage while trying to rob some people who were on vacation. He survived on Pepsi and dog food. We have the golden rules set by God(s), but mankind's laws often undermine the logical.
• Old vs. Young was represented by the movie Big Fish (if you haven't watched this do!).