The Nine Muses
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Tema: Main Olympian gods and goddesses: The Muses
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Competencia en Comunicación Lingüística
Competencia Personal, social y de aprender a aprender
Competencia en conciencia y expresiones culturales
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España > Cultura Clásica > 1º ESO > Continuidad del patrimonio cultural. Mitología y religión
Enunciado
Observaciones y contexto
Corina is one of a large but little-known group of Greek poets. She is said to have been a disciple of the poet Mirtis and to have rivalled Pindar himself. Although the local character of her work prevented it from being widely disseminated at first, interest in Corina and her poetry revived at the end of Hellenism. The Greek poet Antipater of Thessalonica (1st century BC) included her in one of his epigrams as one of the nine muses of ancient lyric poetry, among those he considered to be of the highest quality.
We photocopied, for group reading, the author's Fragment 1 (PMG 655) where she mentions one of the Nine Muses.
We briefly explain the mythological origin of the Muses, being daughters of the god Zeus and Mnemosyne and, based on the preserved fragment, students will fill in the Muses' cards with the scope of their power and their artistic representation, i.e. the attributes that accompany them and identify them with the arts they represent. To carry out the activity, students will be given 9 cards.
This activity has been assigned to 1st ESO but can also be done in other grades.
Descripción
Reading of extracts, data collection, reflection, search for information.