{"id":2190,"date":"2019-12-17T21:50:17","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T21:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/scribes201\/?p=2190"},"modified":"2021-09-27T16:10:30","modified_gmt":"2021-09-27T20:10:30","slug":"week-6-discussion-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/english-201-introduction-to-literature-fall-2021\/2019\/12\/17\/week-6-discussion-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 6 Discussion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2043 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/english-201-introduction-to-literature-fall-2021\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/145\/2019\/11\/Tskhinvali_Khetagurov_Theater_1968_Sophocles_\u2013_King_Oidipous_02-222x300.jpg\" alt=\"Scene from Sophocles, King Oedepous\" width=\"222\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In <em>Oedipus the King<\/em>, the Chorus functions as the collective voice of the citizens of Thebes. The Odes, sung by the chorus, also exemplify one of Aristotle&#8217;s criteria for great tragic theatre: &#8220;language enhanced by varying beauties.&#8221; Select one passage (You do not have to discuss the entire ode) sung by the Chorus and write a 150-word post in which you analyze the meaning of the passage and give examples of some of the beautiful language employed. Include the line numbers for us. <em>Be sure to include the quoted material.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Please do not use a passage that someone has already used.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Also, address comments to others by name so we can all follow along.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Oedipus the King, the Chorus functions as the collective voice of the citizens of Thebes. The Odes, sung by the chorus, also exemplify one of Aristotle&#8217;s criteria for great tragic theatre: &#8220;language enhanced by varying beauties.&#8221; Select one passage (You do not have to discuss the entire ode) sung by the Chorus and write [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":208,"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":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-posts","czr-hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/english-201-introduction-to-literature-fall-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/english-201-introduction-to-literature-fall-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/english-201-introduction-to-literature-fall-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/english-201-introduction-to-literature-fall-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/english-201-introduction-to-literature-fall-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2190"}],"version-history":[{"count":28,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/english-201-introduction-to-literature-fall-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5358,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/english-201-introduction-to-literature-fall-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2190\/revisions\/5358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/english-201-introduction-to-literature-fall-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/english-201-introduction-to-literature-fall-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/english-201-introduction-to-literature-fall-2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}