This is fantastic, thanks so much! pch
On 4/7/10 6:40 PM, "Bruce Danner" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Peter:
>
> For the essential Iliad: 1, 6, 8-9, 16, 18, 22, 24
> The essential Odyssey: 1, 4-5, 9-12, 17, 19, 21-23
>
> While a compromise, these books keep introductory students focused and
> grounded. Dolon and Xanthus are great fun, but distract first-time students,
> as does the catalog of ships from Iliad 2. If you'd like more
> details/logistics, email off-list.
>
> -Bruce Danner
> St. Lawrence University
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Peter Herman <[log in to unmask]>
>> Sent: Apr 7, 2010 6:00 PM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: Help with another teaching topic
>>
>> Hello All,
>>
>> Following in the distinguished William Oram's footsteps, can I ask the
>> equally distinguished list for some help with figuring out how to teach
>> Homer's Illiad and Odyssey in my Introduction to Literature class? As much
>> as I would like to, it is simply not possible to assign the entirety of
>> either book. So, has anyone taught excerpts from these texts to a beginner,
>> non-lit major audience? And if so, which excerpts did you use?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> pch
>>
>>
>> On 4/7/10 2:36 PM, "Colin Burrow" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>> How about 'Write me the ending (not like Chapman's)'?
>>>
>>> Colin Burrow
>>> Senior Research Fellow
>>> All Souls College
>>> Oxford OX1 5DD
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Sidney-Spenser Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>>> On
>>> Behalf Of David Wilson-Okamura
>>> Sent: 07 April 2010 22:06
>>> To: [log in to unmask]
>>> Subject: Re: Paper topics on Hero and Leander
>>>
>>> For undergraduates, I think the surest road is Andrew's question about
>>> ecphrasis: it's obvious when it occurs, but not obvious why it's
>>> there.
>>>
>>> Perhaps another way of framing Andrew's question about delay: was the
>>> poem cut short by accident (e.g., lost pages, the author's death) or
>>> art?
>>>
>>> Epyllion, which Tom mentions, is the subject I'd most like to READ an
>>> essay about. To my knowledge there's no Renaissance theory of it, only
>>> examples. As soon as you say that, of course, someone starts to give
>>> you a lecture on Hellenistic aesthetics. But what is pretty common
>>> knowledge today wasn't common knowledge then. What in his model,
>>> Musaeus, did Marlowe think it was important to imitate? Tasso, I see,
>>> did a translation of Musaeus; did he also write a preface? mention it
>>> in his letters?
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