- Aug 2022
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Class discussion reflected onthe emphasis on “family values” in recent news coverageof politicians looking for issues near election time.Perhaps you were stimulated by what the pundits had tosay. Or maybe you were offended by the superficiality ofthe “soundbites” – after all, you had just read Odysseustelling Agamemnon in Book Eleven that “empty wordsare evil.”
What a fantastic juxtaposition!
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- Jun 2022
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Worth digging into some of the papers mentioned here (@2022-06-03)
Color terms in The Odyssey by William Gladstone
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- May 2022
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The Perseus Project at Tufts, founded in 1985, includes both Greek and English versions of the Iliad and the Odyssey, along with commentaries.
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- Nov 2021
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e spoke, and the river stayed his current, stopped the waves breaking,and made all quiet in front of him and let him get safelyinto the outlet of the river.
An example of a figure calming waters in myth.
cross reference: Moses and the parting of the Red Sea
To what dates might we attribute these two texts? Which preceded the other? What sort of potential cultural influences would the original had on the subsequent?
Also cross reference the many deluge/flood stories in ancient literatures including Genesis 6-9, The Epic of Gilgamesh, etc.
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The Odyssey of Homer A Close Reading - Week 1
Video: https://vimeo.com/642829312/245fb2b6a5
The Odyssey of Homer: a Close Reading
- Will Quinn
- Dr. Elizabeth Patton
Looking at Chapters 1-4
- Council of Gods on Mount Olympus
- Journey of Telemachus (Telemachy)
Translation
Using Richmond Lattimore's translation of The Odyssey in part because he keeps the sens of the formulaic epithets.
Dactylic hexameter
- Longfellow used it in Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie
"This is the forest primeval."
Epithets
- "The man of many ways" (Odysseus)
- much enduring Odysseus
- rosy fingered dawn
These sorts of epithets are designed to fit the epic into the dactylic hexameter.
Background of story
Proem
in Greek suffering can mean "learning"
Q: When does the council on the gods take place?
"Council of the Gods" in Galleria Borghese (Rome) ceiling_ceiling.jpg)
Penelope with the Suitors by Pinturicchio
Circumspect Penelope
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The Greek historian Plutarch, who lived in the first century A.D., wrote that the epics owed their existence as complete poems to Lycurgus, an early ruler of Sparta, who encountered them during his travels in Asia Minor
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- May 2021
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Muse
Reminded of Chapter 11 in The Odyssey:
I am likely going to retire this year and I find resonance in this as it appears that I will be accepting a "voluntary" buyout at the end of this fiscal year. My long sea journey, 25 years worth in teaching, will be officially over. Hence...the appeal to propitiate the gods, to let all the pain go, to ask forgiveness of the implacable Poseidon.
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- Dec 2020
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Salt Immortal Sea quote
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- Aug 2017
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-tYouhavenownoneedofatrade."
Booker T. Washington was a big proponent for African Americans learning trades. When Booker T. Washington founded Tuskegee University, the student built the buildings themselves, harvested their own food, and provided for their basic necessities. He thought learning skills would lead to the advancement of African Americans.
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- Feb 2017
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They retain enough references to the heroes of the classical tradition and enough illustrations translated from great Greek and Latin works to provide an overview for scholars not versed in the originals
Like watching the Wishbone version?
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