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TIKTOK: Team Aphrodite vs. Team Artemis

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Erinna de Telos

Tema: Greek gods

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Erina was a Greek poetess from the 4th century BC, whose most famous work contains 26 legible verses, out of a total of 54, corresponding to different parts of the poem. Originally, this poem, called The Distaff, had 300 verses. It is a lament for the death of her friend Baucis and an evocation of the childhood lost and spent with her. She was born on the island of Telos, currently Tilos, in Greece, near Kos, where she appears to have studied. She was greatly admired in her time and praised by other later poets for the maturity of her writing despite her young age, since it seems that she wrote this poem when she was 15 years old.
This activity on an except of The Distaff has several parts: &nbsp;
1- Identify in the text those words or expressions connected to childhood and, therefore, to the goddess Artemis and those connected to the adult married woman, and therefore to Aphrodite.&nbsp; 2- From that selection, make a chart with both goddesses, their attributes and the things they have power over. &nbsp; 3- Choose what team you want to belong to, team Aphrodite or team Artemis, and create a TIKTOK dance with your teammates representing the characteristics of that goddess. &nbsp;
Fragment of The Distaff &nbsp; &nbsp; . . . Deep into the wave you raced,&nbsp; Leaping from white horses,&nbsp; Whirling the night on running feet.&nbsp; But loudly I shouted, "Dearest,&nbsp; You're mine!" Then you, the Tortoise,&nbsp; Skipping, ran to the rutted garth&nbsp; Of the great court. These things I&nbsp; Lament and sorrow, sad Baucis.&nbsp; These are for me, O Maiden,&nbsp; Warm trails back through my heart:&nbsp; Joy, once filled, smoulders in ash;&nbsp; Young, in rooms without a care,&nbsp; We held our miming dolls&mdash;girls&nbsp; In the pretense of young brides&nbsp; (And the toward-dawn-mother&nbsp; Lotted wool to tending women,&nbsp; Calling Baucis to salt the meat);&nbsp; O, what trembling when we were small&nbsp; And fear was brought by MORMO&mdash;&nbsp; Huge of ear up on her head,&nbsp; With four feet walking, always&nbsp; Changing from face to other.&nbsp; But mounted in the bed of&nbsp; Your husband, dearest Baucis,&nbsp; You forgot things heard from mother,&nbsp; While still the littler child.&nbsp; Fast Aphrodite set your&nbsp; Forgetful heart. So I lament,&nbsp; Neglecting though your obsequies:&nbsp; Unprofaned, my feet may not leave&nbsp; And my naked hair's not loosed abroad,&nbsp; No lighted eye may disgrace your corpse&nbsp; And in this house, O my Baucis,&nbsp; Purpling shame grips me about. &nbsp;
English translation of fragment by Daniel Haberman (retrieved on 05/09/2022) &lt;<a href="http://bourguignomicon.blogspot.com/2010/05/fragment-from-distaff-by-erinna.html">http://bourguignomicon.blogspot.com/2010/05/fragment-from-distaff-by-erinna.html</a>&gt;&nbsp;

Observacions i context

Erinna's work is an elegy, a poetic composition that is not subject to a specific type of verse, but Erinna uses the dactylic hexameter, typical of Homeric poetry.

She wrote in Doric dialect with Aeolicisms, a nod to her predecessor Sappho and to lyrical poetry in general, since Aeolian is the language this genre was born in. There are other poetesses of later times which date from the 4th century until the Hellenistic or Roman periods. Some of these women are Anyte of Tegea, Myro of Byzantium, Nossis, Aristodama of Smyrna or Melinno. 

The elegy is a type of composition that has continued to be cultivated throughout history, and of which Erinna is, undoubtedly, an icon. 

An activity is suggested to be completed individually and then in groups, since it has several parts. In the first one, students read the text and reflect about it to identify the concepts connected to each goddess. In the second part, using the information extracted from the reading, they create two charts with the characteristics, attributes and things the goddesses have power over. In the third part, students form two groups: Aphrodite and Artemis. Students have to choose which goddess they identify with to create a TIKTOK video in which they show the attributes and characteristics of said goddess.

The activity is assigned to 1st of ESO, specifically related to the content Block Continuity of Cultural Heritage. Mythology and Religion.

Descripció

Learning about two Olympian goddesses, Aphrodite and Artemis, through The Distaff, a poem by Erinna.

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