Melanie McDonald at 2013-06-02 14:40:56:
Hi Scott,
One thing that struck me - & hope I'm not bird-dogging too far afield, but since Aristotle mentions Sophocles - is that in the Spielberg clip you posted May 20, http://gointothestory.blcklst.com/2013/05/steven-spielbergs-techniques-and-themes.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter beginning at 4:51, it mentions that he uses Right-to-Left, Left-to-Right movements of the camera to convey information, which works pretty much the same way as Sophocles and other playwrights used the Greek Chorus, moving Left-to-Right (strophe) and Right-to-Left (antistrophe), to convey information to their audiences...pretty cool. Also, sounds like the Greek villages and city-states argued over who started which forms the same way they squabbled over - well, pretty much everything else. Thanks so much for leading this discussion and sharing it with us.