Old Geeky Greeks and Creative Writing
Old Geeky Greeks: Write Stories Using Ancient Techniques Here's A List For You Blood tragedies. John Singer Sargent's sketch for his 1902 sculpture of Perseus Atonement. I, Robot . Harry Potter. Ironman. Hubris. The 13 th Warrior . The scariest woman in all literature. The Hobbit . Dudley Dooright. 5 Stages of the Hero . . . and the Monster. Jurassic Park , in all its iterations. What Do The Items In This Oddly-Matched List Have In Common? These stories all have origins with the ancient Greeks and Romans. Sitting around fires after a day of hunting and gathering, the first writers developed techniques to influence their audiences. Those techniques have thousands of years of use and still hold true for capturing audiences. The ancient Greeks (and Romans) of classical antiquity viewed the stories and dramas that were enduring. And just like writers today, they searched and defined and classified the best techniques to cr...