Homework: CM chapter 2

What to study for next class

• Classical Mythology (CM) Chapter 2
• Proserpina myth (from Ovid's Metamorphosis)
• Guide to pronunciation

Drop add ends tomorrow

Homework: CM chapter 3

What to study for next class

CM Chapter 3 (to page 88)

Context:

• Biblical cosmogony (drawing)
• Opening of genesis (E.E.Fox)
• Job 38, Psalm 74, Psalm 89, Proverbs 8, John 1
• Canaanite mythology and cosmology
• Queen of the sky and Child Sacrifice in Jeremiah
• Bulls, Baal, and Asherah: Judges
• Origin of Greek myth: an interesting movie
• Pronunciation of beginning of Odyssey and beginning of Theogony
• Music video performed in ancient Greek

For next class, use the Wiki to post one major god, two minor gods, one monster, and one boldface term from the textbook to define (four all together). Post them on the Wiki in question and answer form. Example: Question: Who is Apollo and what is his symbol? Answer: Apollo is the god of arts and is sometimes associated with the sun. He carries a lyre.

Note: if your god has an alternate Roman name, please find that too.

Note that if someone has already posted your names, you'll need others. It pays to go first!

Read CM:12 The Troy Cycle

(stop at the Iliad)

What to study for next class

Discussion of Paper 1: PowerPoint

Ch. 10 PowerPoint

Chapter 12: The Troy Cycle

• The Iliad sung
• A history channel introduction
• A shortish summary of the Trojan war
• A long movie about the historicity of Troy
• Spark Notes summary of the Odyssey

Discussion of paper two: Choose the book you want to purchase and read (No Man's Land or The Penelopiad)

Odyssey 1,3

Begin reading either novel Penelopiad or nonfiction book No Man's Land

Journal Prompt: the first two books

Odyssey 1,3

• Schmoop on the Odyssey
• Star Trek Voyager: Alice (30:30)
• Star Trek In Medias Res: Timeless
• 10 movies that work in reverse
• 40 actresses in their 40s

Odyssey 5,6, 7 (90-160)

Journal prompt: books 5,6

Odyssey 5,6, 7 (90-160)

Excerpts from Book 4

• Helen of Troy
• Menelaus, Proteus, Agamemnon, & Odysseus
• Penelope's dream

Excerpts from Book 5

• Calypso's cavern
• Odysseus and Poseidon (audio 18:21)

Excerpts from Book 6 and 7

• Odysseus meets Nausikaa on Scheria
• Nausikaa's magic house

Odyssey 8 (70-126),9,10

Journal prompt: books 9,10

Odyssey 8 (70-126), 9,10

Two example journal entries:

• One
• Two

Themes

• Xania and lack of it
• Food crimes
• Shape shifting
• Riddles of identity (Odysseus): Name, parentage, home
• Temptation/Curiosity
• Arrogance/carelessness
• Famous tricks
• Example: Cyclops episode
  • lack of civilized network, agriculture
  • lack of Xania
  • gift-giving
  • Perversion food/not food law

Patterns

• Exotic episdoes in three (short,short, long)
  • Kikonians, Lotus Eaters, Cyclopes 9.118
  • Aeolos (incest), Laistrygones, Circe 10.138
• Preface to center of poem: Tirersias (549-end)

Style (Odysseus as storyteller):

• What first, what last?
• historical present
• dactylic hexameter

Odyssey 11,12

Journal prompt books 11-12

Odyssey 11,12

Odyssey 16-17 or 19-20 (Half of you will read the first two chapters; half will read the second)

Journal prompts

Paper 1 working thesis due

Odyssey 16,17 and 19,20

• Eavan Boland: The Pomegranate
• Michael Collier: Argos (book 17)

Odyssey 22,23

Journal prompt 22,23

Odyssey 22, 23

• Story of Hercules and Iphitos (21:15)
• Stringing the bow (21:452)
• The ax heads
• Athena (22:235-325)
• Odysseus and the blood (22:423-end)
• Reunion: 95+; 185-353

Begin PowerPoint presentations (visit my office by appointment before fall break)

Greek drama PowerPoint

Tennyson, Ulysses

Epic and Tragic: A Presentation

Satire

• Greek Drama: The greatest show on earth
  • Part 1: Theatre and democracy
  • Part 2: Decline of Athens
  • Part 3: Rise of Rome
• Satyr play The Cyclops
• Satyr Drama in general
• The chorus: modern interpretations
• A twelve-minute clip in Spanish
• BBC: Podcast on Oresteia
• Ralph Williams on Oresteia
• Summary and Themes
• Audio book of a different translation (whole Oresteia)
• Theater in Ancient Greece

OFFICE PRESENTATIONS OF PAPER ONE BEGIN tomorrow

In-class performance of Eumenides

Virgil, Aeneid 1

What to study for next class

Inroduction to Paper 2

Virgil's Aeneid, 1

• Virgil as scholar-poet interpreting myth in Homer
• Introduction to Aeneid
• Hera (ηρα)as an anagram for air (αηρ) (weather goddess)
• Aeneid character guide
• Travels of Aeneas (note real place names)
• Punic wars
• Penthesilia
• Voyager episode
• Invocations
  • Verse opening to Odyssey in Greek and English
  • Verse opening to Iliad
  • Verse opening to Aeneid
  • Verse opening to Paradise lost
  • Nine Muses

Virgil, Aeneid 2

What to study for next class

Aeneid book 2

• Laocoon and prophecy 55, 275-310
• Sinon's deception and Roman candor 140-270
• Trojan horse 313-359
• Aeneas dream 360-420
• Seige of city: chaos 532-729
• Helen of troy 739-812
• Anchises, Ascanius (Iulus), Creusa and her ghost 832-end

Virgil, Aeneid 4

What to study for next class

Aeneid Book 4

• Book 3 summary
• Dido and her sister 12-75
• Madness and ruin 95-126
• Venus and Juno's conference; marriage? 127-240
• Rumor: 240-296
• Mercury (Hermes) visits: 353-402
• Aeneas and Dido break up 403-538
• Dido's despair 545-end (and read the first paragraph of book 5)

Virgil, Aeneid 6

What to study for next class

Aeneid 6

Roman, rember by your strength to rule/ Earth's peoples--for your arts are to be these: / To pacify, to impose the rule of law,/ To spare the conquered, battle down the proud.

• Summary of Book 5
• Sybil of Cumae as guide; and her cave (Icarus story) 13-15. Written prophecy vs. oral prophecy.
  • Prayer 76-119
  • Prophecies of Rome 128-155
  • Aeneas's request 156
  • Sybil's instructions 185-225
  • What actually happens 278-299
  • "May it be right" 351-369
• Entrance to hell 376-402: Sword is not useful here (cf Empire Strikes Back)
• Ferryman Charon and Cocytus and Cerberus 403-575
• Over the river 575
  • Babies, falsely accused, Minos, fields of mourning (lovelorn), Caneus to 639
  • Famous Trojan warriors (roman vs. Greek) and Deiphobus to 716
  • Fork:left (malefactors): Tisiphone, Hecate, and Rhadamanthus to 838
  • and right (Elysium/ Blessed grove,and the future 853-1202
• Gates of horn and ivory

Context

• The animated short
• Dante's Inferno (and a verse translation)
• Rape of the Lock Book 4: The Cave of Spleen
• Cicero's Dream of Scipio
• Plato's Dream of Er
• Pythagoras and Reincarnation
• Hebrew Apocalyptic literature

Discussion of Paper 2

Dante books 1-2 in class

• Dante biography
• Divine comedy online (compare translations)
• Kline's prose translation
• Dante worlds
• Dante's cosmology
  • The earth is round: an introductory film
• World of Dante (maps,music, more)

Homework:

Post an entry to the Dante journal. Choose one of these questions.

Dante Inferno 3-7

TOMORROW IS THE LAST DAY FOR PRESENTATIONS OF PAPER 1

• Answer one of these study questions in the Dante Journal on Blackboard by class time on Thursday, October 29

Dante 8-10

• Movie: start at 17:50

• Dante Journal: Answer these questions about the violent (cantos 11-17)

Dante circle 7 (11-17)

Paper 2 thesis due

• Talking trees

• Dante Journal: Answer these questions about the "pimps and seducers" (cantos 18-23)

Dante 18-23

• Dante journal: answer these questions about the most fradulent (cantos 24-30)

Dante 24-30

Dante film (out of class)

• Watch one of the three films based on Dante's inferno on Blackboard, and answer discussion questions about it. These questions are due by Sunday, November 22.

Paper 2 due

Lecture: Euripides

Euripides, Medea

Some productions of Medea

• High production documentary
• Greek Drama: from ritual to theater
• Medea overview
• Myth of Medea in Greek literature
• Robinson jeffers interpretation
• A good lecture about Medea (starts at 11:10 after TWO introductions)
• Antigone