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notes for class on 4 December 2019

Announcements:
       Adaptation Paper 2 may now be submitted via the TurnItIn portal on LearningSuite; due this evening at 11:50 p.m.
       For Monday, PLEASE, read the chapter in Slover's Christmas Chronicles: click here ...

      plus this: Macfarlane on Slover
       Here's the slide: PirithousWedding2.0004_Slover.htm

Today's (sorta) TWO Mastery Images: Condie's Sisyphus

and

Manship's Native American Heracles
"Sisyphus" in OGCMA, etc.

      some other Heracles adaptations
      Commodus as Hercules, Clements & Musker (1997) esp. Nessus2.0001, Rattner (2014), Clements & Musker (1997), Cathedra Petri (875 BC)

OGCMA.byu.edu — click here is morphing on-line.

For next meeting (Wednesday 13):
look ahead: Ovid Metamorphoses 1-3 (pp. 1-73, faster through first 10-ish pages OK)

SYLLABUS and ASSIGNMENTS
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syllabus
paper assignments

F19 syllabus details grading criteria, assignments, schedule.

Identify a modern adaptation of classical myth and analyze the artist's narrative gain in a careful two-page paper. If links are broken, visit LS-Content for specs and DON'Ts! and the rubric.

Use these tools to study mythological reception for exams and for papers.

241 Mastery Images — must-know usages for exams

   (click on Prometheus for link)
      Modern usages all students should know well.

      Questions about these Mastery Images appear on each exam.

   Learn a five-point response for each Mastery Image:
   a) artist's name, b) title of work, c) basic myth referenced, and d) (for 2 pts.) this work's particular "narrative gain" — What does the artist gain by using the myth here?

OGCMA slides — scores of usages to start study, ideas for papers

(click on image for link)
OGCMA is an index of all OGCMA slides created for use in the course and elsewhere.

MythMatters

— peek at Macfarlane's thoughts on reception

A blog created and maintained by Macfarlane241 where new ideas on mythological reception are explored at the rate of about one usage per week. The MythMatters blog may help students see what sort of questions the instructor considers interesting and potentally productive for papers. He uses it to exhibit some of the ideas he is hatching in his pretty little head. He posts about once per week.

Ye Olde Mythlisting

The Mythlist may be scarcely useful anymore. (Thus the archaic name.) It is a crowd-sourced listing of a few hundred mythological usages in a spreadsheet with entries identified by OGCMA reference and beefed up with links. The Mythlist may be useful for students who want to explore new ideas. Click here for a look.

Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts

J.D. Reid, comp., The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts: 1300 - 1990s (Oxford University Press, 1993). This is the venerable reference tool to which all usages are keyed. The book is pricey. Therefore, Macfarlane expects all students will consult it in the HBLL at the Humanities Reference Desk. This tool is not yet available electronically. Staff at that reference desk know how to use this important tool. Go and ask... or come to Office Hours.

bibliomythos

Scholars at the Austrian Academy of Sciences — Bernard Kreuz, Petra Aigner, and Christine Harrauer — assembled the Bibliographie zum Nachleben des antiken Mythos and posted it online in 2012. Presumably updates will follow.
Users don't really need to know German to access this valuable listing of usages. The downloadable .pdf version may be searched electronically.