http://www.metafilter.com/tags/greekdrama Posts tagged with 'greekdrama' at MetaFilter. Thu, 24 Feb 2005 21:03:18 -0800 Thu, 24 Feb 2005 21:03:18 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/39927/masks I have been thinking about <a href="http://www.broadviewpress.com/drama/images/Detail%20from%20the%20Pronomos%20Vase%20depicting%20Roman%20actors%20with%20masks%20as%20Hercules%20and%20Dionysus.jpg" title="Pronomos vase (detail), depicting actors with masks as Hercules and Dionysus (late fifth/early 4th century BCE) ">masks</a> lately. <a href="http://www.anymask.com/forandfunofm.html" title="The Functions And Forms Of Masks">Masks</a> are <a href="http://didaskalia.open.ac.uk/issues/vol6no1/varakis.html" title="http://didaskalia.open.ac.uk/issues/vol6no1/varakis.html" title="Research on the Ancient Mask">ancient</a> and <a href="http://www.art.umd.edu/people/FSham/honr288artt200/studentwork/berenicejuarez/" title="Masks' Fundamental Differences In World Culture">universal</a>, our ancestors put on masks to become an other, to become a god, even unto <a href="http://hometown.aol.com/miketben/miktben2.htm" title="The Grand Council of the Haudenosaunee, The Six Nations Iroquois Confederacy, issues the following policy statement regarding all medicine masks of the Haudenosaunee">this day</a>. <a href="http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/youth/history/thestoryofmankind/chap18.html" title="The Origins of the Theatre, the First Form of Public Amusement">Greek</a> <a href="http://www.imagi-nation.com/moonstruck/spectop007.html" title="Aristotle, Classic Technique, and Greek Drama">tragedy </a>and <a href="http://www.theatrehistory.com/ancient/bates001.html" title="Origin of Comedy">comedy</a> began in the worship of <a href="http://home.earthlink.net/~delia5/pagan/dio/Dionysos-99wtp.htm" title="Of all the gods of ancient Greece, none has proved as enigmatic and compelling as Dionysos. ">Dionysos</a>, the <a href="http://web.uvic.ca/grs/bowman/myth/gods/dionysos_t.html" title="Classical Myth: Dionysos: Texts">god of wine, intoxication, and creative ecstasy</a>, in <a href="http://research.haifa.ac.il/~mluz/dionysus.html" title="Dionysus: Myth and Ritual in Sources of the Archaic Period">rituals </a>where worshipers often wore or worshipped masks. Indeed, the word for mask in Greek drama was persona, now commonly used to describe <a href="http://psychcentral.com/blogs/kaycee.htm" title="The mystery or story of Kaycee is one that has been told in the past, which has occurred in the past, both online and many times in the real world. A story is circulated about a child (usually) who has a terminal disease. Send money, send cards, send your outpourings to help! ">constructed online identities</a>. And so <a href="http://hyper.vcsun.org/HyperNews/jrose/get/th315/weektwo.html?inline=-1" title="Roles and Conventions">we</a> <a href="http://www.indigosun.com/aug1998/golden.htm" title="The Masks We Wear">understand</a> <a href="http://www.dallasinstitute.org/Programs/Previous/SPRING99/talktext/joanne99a.htm" title=>ourselves</a> as wearing masks, whole series of masks--behind which we find only emptiness, for we can never see ourselves truly. tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.39927 Thu, 24 Feb 2005 21:03:18 -0800 ancientgreece brokenlink dionysos drama greece greekdrama greekgods greektheatre haudenosaunee identities iroquois kaycee kayceenicole masks mythology personalities roles theatre y2karl