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Astrides The Warrior

Our Tragedies

ASTRIDES THE WARRIOR

Many battles ago, in the great city of Athens, there was an army of great fighters. One in particular: Astrides. He was one of their greatest fighters, respected by all. Everyone looked up to him, every single person in Athens wanted to be like him. No one was known not to want to be like Astrides.

He would do anything he could for his city: he would kill all the evil beasts, he would protect the civilians and would never forget to sacrifice offerings to the gods. They would give him good luck for the day. The gods he could never get off his mind were Athena and Ares: the war gods.

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The tale of Syungrafeas

Our Tragedies

When you travel down the long stream of time, you come to the serine island of Crete, where a young playwright named Syungrafeas was born. Syungrafeas grew up as a religious man and a playwright, not many people had heard of, for now.

Syngrafeas once wrote an inspiring play of what to do and what not to do for children. Millions of citizens came to watch this play and Syngrafeas let them all in for free.

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DSC00993This week year 6 have been bringing together all of their learning about Greek storytelling to plan and write their own Greek Tragedies .

We thought carefully about the Greek stories and what they had in common, then we created our own Tragic story structures based on the events  that happened in these stories.

 

  1. Beginning: the main character and setting is introduced.
  2. The ‘good deeds’ : the reader is shown the ‘goodness’ of the main character through their deeds.
  3. Pride grows: The main character begins to feel prideful about a skill or quality that they have. Here we see events that show the character is changing.
  4. The warning : Here the main character receives a warning about their pride, vanity or stubbornness. Sometimes there is no explicit warning, but an opportunity to change
  5. The final act of hubris: Here we see the character ignore the warning that has been given to them  and their fate is sealed.
  6. Punishment: the main character is punished for their pride, vanity or stubbornness.

Our own stories feature vain playwrights, arrogant warriors, stubborn hunters and greedy fishermen.

We have also been considering tragedies written after the Ancient Greek era. Macbeth is a truly tragic tale of the rise and demise of a Scottish thane.  During our reading of this story, there has been much debate about the role of fate, hubris and greed.

Kostas the Warrior

Our Tragedies

DSC00993Many moons ago in a town now covered by time, there lived a humble warrior named Kostas. Kostas was a kind man with a lion’s courage and strength as large as the gods.

When he was not in battle, Kostas would often spend his spare time teaching the young about the gods. Kostas was the best warrior Marinoz –the town he called home- had ever seen or heard of. He won every single battle he went into coming out with soldiers surrounding him.

What Kostas didn’t know that it wouldn’t be a battle that would kill him.

Kostas awoke in the night screams around him. He slipped on his old clothes and headed outside, thanking the gods he had not been harmed. He stared out across the town he once called home. Wooden houses were strewn across the land leaving citizens begging for the gods. Continue reading Kostas the Warrior →