{"id":8987,"date":"2022-09-30T23:08:04","date_gmt":"2022-10-01T03:08:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-fall-2022-conway\/?p=8987"},"modified":"2022-09-30T23:08:04","modified_gmt":"2022-10-01T03:08:04","slug":"emily-fan-discussion-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/2022\/09\/30\/emily-fan-discussion-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Emily Fan Discussion 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">those children that are born lie dead on the naked earth<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">unpitied, spreading contagion of death; and gray-haired mothers and wives<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">everywhere stand at the altar\u2019s edge, suppliant, moaning; the hymn to the healing God15 rings out but with it the wailing voices are blended.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">From these our sufferings grant us, O golden Daughter of Zeus,16<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">210 glad-faced deliverance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><br style=\"font-weight: 400\" \/><br style=\"font-weight: 400\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In the play, it speaks of a disaster that they face with many babies dying and everything is just kind of dead, \u201cspreading contagion of death\u2026\u201d everyone is just kind of sick and they are praying and giving offerings to the gods to help them through this time. I chose this quote because it shows what the people are going through and it paints a picture of how bad it was that they were turning towards the gods for help. It shows that through the suffering they all gathered at the altar to ask for blessings from Athena, \u201cgolden daughter of Zeus\u201d to help stop the god of war, Ares as they think it is him that \u201c\u2026burns us\u201d They attributed their suffering to Ares and want the other gods such as Zeus and Athena to help them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>those children that are born lie dead on the naked earth unpitied, spreading contagion of death; and gray-haired mothers and wives everywhere stand at the altar\u2019s edge, suppliant, moaning; the hymn to the healing God15 rings out but with it the wailing voices are blended. From these our sufferings grant us, O golden Daughter of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5988,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-week-6-discussion","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5988"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8988,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8987\/revisions\/8988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-introduction-to-literature-spring-2023-conway\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}