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Classical Lit: Session 2 of Individual Presentations
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Monday, April 30, 2007. Session 2 of Individual Presentations. 10) Me: Janet-My Terpsichore. Dance is my life and first love of my life. Janet was my inspiration to dance, therefore, Janet was the Terpsichore of my story. (Coincidentally, Terpsichore is the muse of dance.). Terpsichore, Muse of Music and Dance. By Jean-Marc Nattier (Picture below). 11) Dan - Daedalus. And Icarus. Kansas -. Here is the URL to a YouTube. Video of this song performed by Kansas: http:/ www.youtube.com/watch? Men vs. women.
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Ash's blog: Closing Thoughts
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Negotiating creativity, reflection, spark, and sense, shamelessly, without any usefulness or purpose. Tuesday, May 1, 2007. I was shocked at how significant Antigone was to Western culture. I think the play made me think the most about the conflict between timelessness and the timely, and about death. I also really enjoyed Lysistrata and the Symposium. Great reading in this class! Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Love and the Psyche. This is my favorite sculpture: Psyche Revived b.
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Classical Foundations of Literature: May 2007
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Classical Foundations of Literature. Joke to break the ice. The importance of being art. Metamorphoses of Ovid and children (the works influenced by) got into a fight, who would win? The power of art is huge. Small reactants = large products. In and Out Burger (It is worth the wait! CA with her grandfather and sister who worked at Disneyland in a POS. Car, Beatles marathon on the radio, went through the twelve labors (trials), but succeeded in the end to complete her epic poem. Psyche (maiden then mother).
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Classical Lit: 01/22/07
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Monday, January 22, 2007. Jan 22, 2007. Agon- a Greek word for battle or contest. Thus creating the word in English, "agony". Ob-"off" scene- "the scene" = obscene. There are 5 main conflicts in lines 441-581 in Antigone:. 1) Man and woman. 2) Young and old. 3) Individual vs. society. 4) Living and dead. 5) Human and God(s). Steiner - pg114, pg121: You can take myths from the past, and relate them back today. THE PAST IS NOT A PACKAGE THAT ONE CAN LAY AWAY. EMILY DICKINSON. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Classical Foundations of Literature: Cupid and Psyche
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Classical Foundations of Literature. All that is past possesses the present. Monday, April 16, 2007. Cupid and Psyche is a story about love, mystery, and consequence. This story has great influence in literature throughout the ages. Milton speaks of the story in one of his poems:. Celestial Cupid, her famed son, advanced,. Holds his dear Psyche sweet entranced,. After her wandering labours long,. Till free consent the gods among. Make her his eternal bride;. And from her fair unspotted side.
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Classical Foundations of Literature: March 2007
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Classical Foundations of Literature. All that is past possesses the present. Friday, March 30, 2007. For class we chose five lines to present from Ovid. I chose lines on p. 374. My lines say:. No one could catch him; keen to kill himself, he raced up to Parnassus' peak- and leaped down from a cliff. Apollo, pitying my brother, made of him a bird with wings that sprouted suddenly". These five lines seemed to condense the theme of the Metamorphoses. Thursday, March 29, 2007. 5 lines from Ovid. Shaw's words...
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Classical Foundations of Literature: Symposium
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Classical Foundations of Literature. All that is past possesses the present. Saturday, March 3, 2007. The term "symposium" is a term that originally had to do with a drinking party that often included rigorous discussion. The Greek verb sympotein. Means "to drink together." Today, the term usually refers to an academic discussion, the presence of alcohol is now optional. Here is a picture of an ancient symposium:. While a present-day symposium would look something like this:. 5 lines from Ovid.
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Classical Foundations of Literature: January 2007
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Classical Foundations of Literature. All that is past possesses the present. Thursday, January 25, 2007. This hymn describes how Hades stole Persephone and how Demeter. Grieved, punishing the earth, eventually making Zeus send Hermes to retrieve Persephone- but not before Hades tricked her into eating pomegranate seeds. Now Persephone must spend four months in the underworld every year. With this story, the pomegranate turns into a symbol of the cunning of man, the power of man, which woman could not sto...
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Classical Lit: 01/30/07
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Tuesday, January 30, 2007. Jan 29, 2007. Well, sadly, I have not had an epiphany yet this week! So I will try to keep you all posted on that aspect of my life. However, I hope that this blog will be much better by the end of the week. Jan 26, 2007. I was researching the 9 muses on the internet, and this picture caught my eye:. The website I obtained this photo is: http:/ beta.communities.msn.ch/TheGreekMythologyAge/themuses.msnw. Jan 24, 2007. Zeus overthrowing the most powerful gods =. Jan 29, 2007.
