Wednesday April 25

Individual Presentations 1:

Alison Zobel:

• 'can't touch this: nether regions 101'
• Lysistrata- reversal of men and women
• the refusal of sex

Chase Wright:

• Dionysus and Jesus Christ
• both martyred and then reborn
• D is a dead religion, while JC is modern
• both fathered by the Kingdom of Heaven and mothered by a human
• both turned water into wine
• both have rituals where you eat the flesh and drink the blood (or wine)

Hannah Vidrich:

• Lysistrata and real examples
• women compared to: 1) a dog, 2) sea, 3) a bee

Brittany Taylor:

• story by her grandma 'Nana'
• the story was about misbehaving and breaking the rules, which is what all of the people in our books did
• this is a way to create stories

Meagan Thale:

• love is intertwined in each story- especially with the women
• their reactions
• love is confusion
• poem 'She is found' by Elsa Giblow

Jesse Stolba:

• skit about a mommy and her son

Jan Sprizziri:

• Dionysus and Virginia Tech shooting
• he created a video on u-tube which was like D's speech at the end of The Bacchae

Me:

• women's roles in the texts and contemporary comparisons:
• Lysistrata= Rosie the Riveter
• Agave= a sheep
• Europa and Arachne= themselves
• Psyche= Jessica Simpson
• Diotema= Grandmother Willow
• Antigone= Lara Croft

Barbra Ralston:

• told a frame story about the myths found in her life