notes for class on      25 November 2019

 

Announcements:
       Questions about Clark Lecture (Vergil)
       Did the Workshop go OK?

      
      

Today's (sorta) TWO Mastery Images: Orphée aux Enfers

      and

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

—— Discuss Hutcheon's Theory of Adaptation via...
      some Eurydice adaptations
      i.e. Gluck, Offenbach, Boyle/Beaufoy, Nikolaides
      
      
      

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

 

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 notes for class on      20 November 2019

 

Announcements:
       Remember today's Clark Lecture: 5:30 p.m. in HBLL Auditorium
       Attend the Clark Lecture, write a short report of something you learned, and submit the "Clark Lecture Extra" before Friday at 11:59 p.m.

       Paper deadline extended to 4 Dec
      Paper Workshop Friday 11 a.m. B-104 JFSB (.5 pts available to those who attend)

Today's TWO Mastery Images: Velazquez' Las Hilanderas
"Arachne" in OGCMA, etc.

Orphée aux Enfersl

—— Discuss Ovid' Metamorphoses via...
      ... a few TopHat questions, etc.
      COVERING esp. Arachne and Orpheus
      
      
      

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)

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notes for class on      11 November 2019

 

Announcements:
       Midterm this week.

       .

Today's Mastery Image: The Gospel at Colonus
"Oedipus at Colonus" in OGCMA, etc.

—— Discuss Sophocles' Oedipus via...
      ... a few TopHat questions, etc.
      
      
      
      

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)

 notes for class on      6 November 2019

 

Announcements:
       Papers back today.

       Three Star-Papers click here.

Monday's Mastery Image: Is this Artemis, another goddess, or The Goddess?
"Artemis of Ephesus" in OGCMA, etc.

And TODAY's Mastery Image: Botticelli's perfectly (mis)matched couple, Venus and Mars...

—— Discuss Euripides' Medea via...
      ... a few TopHat questions, etc.
      
      
      
      

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notes for class on      4 November 2019

Announcements:
       Tophat quiz questions done?

       Adaptation Paper 1 grades to be uploaded tomorrow (Tuesday).

Today's Mastery Image: Is this Artemis, another goddess, or The Goddess?
"Artemis of Ephesus" in OGCMA, etc.

—— Discuss Morales Classical Mythology on adaptation of myth, especially Chapters 7 "New Age" and 5 "Freud etc."
       Apuleius quote; cf. p. 110, but click here for Apul. Met. 11.4
      Apuleius' Golden Ass
      Oedipus Tyrannus, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone
      TopHat on various things
      
      

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

For next meeting (Monday 28):
      look ahead: Euripides Medea (in Greek Tragedy anthology)

 

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notes for class on      30 October 2019

Announcements:
      Fabrizio Diozzi, Thursday 3 p.m., HBLL-Special Collections Classroom on "The Herculaneum Papyri"

       Adaptation Paper 1 is in...

Today's Mastery Image: Persephone and her mother
"Persephone" in OGCMA, etc.

—— Discuss Morales Classical Mythology on adaptation of myth
      notes on Horace Carmen 3.27 Horace's Europa Ode
      TopHat on various things
      Europa myth moralized p. 62
      Wolfgang Peterson's Troy and "authenticity" p. 24 (cf. p. 39 on Sarpedon)
       William Bennett on Daedalus/Icarus vs. Henson's take on things — who is to blame for Icarus' fall?
       Tony Harrison's Prometheus vs. Manship/Rockefeller's Prometheus p. 36 "Two golden statues of Prometheus —— two completely opposed political emblems." (38)
      Yevonde's glamor girls: "In on the joke?"
      Commodus as Heracles — Is this insane? Maybe, but...

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notes for class on      28 October 2019

 

Announcements:
      Fabrizio Diozzi, Thursday 3 p.m., HBLL-Special Collections Classroom on "The Herculaneum Papyri"

      Report on Midterm 1

       Adaptation Paper 1 is in...

Today's Mastery Image: Minerva Protects Pax from Mars
"Europa" in OGCMA, etc.

      Wrap Up Eumenides
—— Discuss Morales Classical Mythology on Europa myth
      TopHat on Europa
      notes on Horace Carmen 3.27 Horace's Europa Ode

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

For next meeting (Monday 28):
      look ahead: Helen Morales' Classical Mythology

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notes for class on      23 October 2019

Announcements:
      Did you see questions in Tophat for homework?

      Tuesday's Forum is a hum-dinger: David Brooks — click here

       23 Oct 7 p.m. Tim Slover on "I Will Take the Ring: J.R.R. Tolkien and Heroism" — B062 JFSB (Slover will visit our class in December)

Today's Mastery Image: Walcott's Helen
"Electra" in OGCMA, etc.

—— Discuss Eumenides a.k.a. "Eumenides"
      Google Maps for Areopagus
      TopHat
      notes on OrestesGenealogy or in docx

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

For next meeting (Monday 28):
      look ahead: Helen Morales' Classical Mythology

 

notes for class on      16 October 2019

Announcements:
      Did you see questions in Tophat for homework?

      Tuesday's Forum is a hum-dinger: David Brooks — click here

       23 Oct 7 p.m. Tim Slover on "I Will Take the Ring: J.R.R. Tolkien and Heroism" — B062 JFSB (Slover will visit our class in December)

Today's Mastery Image: Nocret's Louis XIV = Apollo
"Electra" in OGCMA, etc.

—— Discuss Choephori a.k.a. "Libation Bearers"
      TopHat
      notes on OrestesGenealogy or in docx

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

For next meeting (Monday 30):
      look ahead: Eumenides

notes for class on      14 October 2019

Announcements:
       Midterm has come and gone

      Did anybody attend the 11 a.m. lectures last Thursday?

       Tuesday 5 p.m. Miles Gloriosus readers' theatre; 5 p.m DuckPond

Today's Mastery Image: Collier's Clytemnestra
"Clytemnestra" in OGCMA, etc.

—— Discuss Agamemnon
      TopHat
      notes on OrestesGenealogy

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

For next meeting (Wednesday 16):
      look ahead: Libation Bearers (Choephori)

 notes for class on      9 October 2019

Announcements:
       Midterm coming: Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Monday til 2:00 p.m.
       —— review Friday 11 Oct 2:30-3:30 B-060 JFSB

       —— primer (click here)

      A pair of Classical Studies Lectures

Today's Mastery Image: Botticelli's Venus
"Penelope" in OGCMA, etc.

—— Discuss Odyssey Books 15-the end: STARTING with Book 11!——
... but you can always refer to the 40DaysOdyssey overview (in LearningSuite-Content).
      16.160ff — Athena reveals Odysseus to Telemachus
      17.36 Penelope resembles Aphrodite or Artemis
      17.150 Theoclymenus' prophecy — Penelope's faith prompted here?
      17.530 — What does Penelope know at this moment?
      18.188ff. — Athena endows Penelope
      Odysseus' name means something — 19.408-409 w/ Verity's note ad 1.62
      Athena wields the aegis in the hall — minister of DIKE
      19.570ff. AXES, the challenge imposed by Penelope
      Penelope's scepticism in Book 23 — Eurycleia, Telemachus... insufficient
      HOMOPHROSYNE — 23.181 — Odysseus' ultimate challenge
      What's next for Odysseus? — the cult of Poseidon ... huh?

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

For next meeting (Monday 30):
      look ahead: Odyssey 23-24

notes for class on      2 October 2019

Announcements:
      
       Don't forget the Study Guide: final review sheet
      

Today's Mastery Image: Gynophobia
"Circe" in OGCMA, etc.

—— Discuss Odyssey Books 9-14 : STARTING with 40DaysOdyssey overview (in LearningSuite-Content).
      

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

For next meeting (Monday 30):
      look ahead: Odyssey 15-22.

  notes for class on      30 September 2019

 

Announcements:
       CCFF write up was due Saturday evening. How was it?
       Don't forget the Study Guide: final review sheet

      
I have added to the Adaptation Paper Assignment. Check under assignment.

      How was the workshop on Friday with Joe?
       Due date coming (26 October 2019)

Today's Mastery Image: Poseidon isn't Neptune
"Titans and Giants"in OGCMA, etc.

—— Discuss Odyssey Books 5-8 via Tophat quiz questions
      

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

For next meeting (Monday 30):
      look ahead: The Odyssey is upon us.

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notes for class on      25 September 2019

Announcements:
       CCFF write up due Saturday evening. Date-night for Friday? for Saturday? Look into hummedia.byu.edu
       Don't forget the Study Guide: final review sheet

      
It ain't EVER TOO EARLY to start working Adaptation Paper #1 (on Athena)!!! —— Adaptation Papers are inordinately (?) weighty
      See the LearningSuite-CONTENT page for important materials.

      Workshop on How to Get Started ... or Farther Along — Joseph, Friday 27 September, noon, B-094 JFSB
       But... we're scooting the submission deadline a couple of weeks down the calendar. (26 October 2019)

Discuss Prometheus Bound:
      Does the playwright (Aeschylus) think that Zeus — who never appears in the play — is justified in his actions regarding Prometheus?
      ... Or...
      A modern critic (Spatz) claims that Aeschylus' Prometheus has the power to "give [us] strength to face the future." What would you identify as the play's optimistic up-side, and how does Aeschylus help you buy into it?

Today's Mastery Image: Rubens advises against war
"Titans and Giants"in OGCMA, etc.

Today's main topics:
      Homer's Odyssey 1-4 via Tophat quiz questions
      

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

For next meeting (Monday 30):
      look ahead: The Odyssey is upon us.

notes for class on      18 September 2019

Announcements: Prometheus Bound (ticket required) 23 Sept 5 p.m. (or, better, 4 — free lecture) 
      Look into hummedia.byu.edu (Classics Film Festival, aka CLiFF): first response due soon

      The Athena Enchilada is stuffed
It ain't EVER TOO EARLY to start working Adaptation Paper #1 (on Athena)!!! —— Adaptation Papers are inordinately (?) weighty
      See the LearningSuite-CONTENT page for important materials.

Today's Mastery Images: Thorvaldsen's Hephaestus "Vulcan's Forge" and
      Manship's Prometheus
"Titans and Giants"in OGCMA, etc.

Today's main topics:
      Hesiod's Theogony via Tophat quiz questions
      How to watch Prometheus Bound: Is it all about pity and fear?

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

For next meeting (Monday 23):
      plan to attend in the DeJong

      
      look ahead The Odyssey cometh.

notes for class on      16 September 2019

Announcements: OGCMA Athena assignment due Tuesday evening — before 11:59 p.m.
get your Prometheus Bound ticket, 23 Sept 5 p.m. (or, better, 4 — free lecture) 
Look into hummedia.byu.edu (Classics Film Festival, aka CLiFF)

Today's Mastery Image: Greenough's Washington
"Titans and Giants"in OGCMA, etc.

Today's main topics:
      Hesiod's Theogony via Tophat quiz questions
      

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

For next meeting (Wednesday):
      finish reading Hesiod's Theogony
—— Consider the events at Mekone and their aftermath
      consider the Athena Enchilada (before tomorrow!!!)
      look ahead

notes for class on      11 September 2019

Announcements: get your Prometheus Bound ticket, 23 Sept 5 p.m. (or, better, 4) 
Look into hummedia.byu.edu (Classics Film Festival, aka CLiFF)

Today's Mastery Image: Moira's Actaeon and Artemis
Actaeon in OGCMA

Today's main topics:
      Athena review via Tophat quiz questions
      Athena in OGCMA

Athena Enchilada assignment — related to OGCMA — start on LearningSuite/Content page

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

For next meeting (Wednesday):
      read Hesiod's Theogony
      find the LearningSuite Syllabus
      consider the Athena Enchilada assigment
      look ahead

notes for class on      9 September 2019

 

The Study Guide: Final Review Sheet — 
Your first writing assignments: Prometheus Bound on 23 Sept (with write-up), THEN first hummedia.byu.edu film (Classics Film Festival, aka CLiFF)

Today's Mastery Image: Nakian's "Juno"

Today's main topics:
      adaptation of classical mythological themes
      Athena, virginal daughter of Metis and Zeus, "parthenos", Pallas; Minerva; patroness of Athens, "mother" of Erichthonius, nurturer of heroes (Heracles, Perseus, Odysseus...)

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

For next meeting (Wednesday):
      bookmark this page
      find the LearningSuite Syllabus
      consider the Athena Enchilada assigment
      look ahead

notes for class on      4 September 2019

Introductions
      Who we are
      Who you are
      What this course is
      What this webpage is — parsing cal.byu.edu/macfarlane/241homepage

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

Mastery Images for today: Alan LeQuire's Nashville Athena

For next meeting (Monday):
      bookmark this page
      find the LearningSuite Syllabus
      read the "Athena" article
      look ahead