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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