Class Notes 10/21/10

Sexson Wisdom: All Classical Mythology may be found in Ovid Somewhere.

Our Minute Story is Due Nov. 16th.

Blogs to Read- Curtis, Jase, John, Melinda, and Sarah's

TERM PAPERS: Your term paper should be related to the importance of this class in Henderson and the Rain King.

THE THREE STAGE THEOS TAKES US THROUGH

Conviviality
Rape- in the philological sense
Indifference.

Sexson did a reading from Flannery O'Connor's GreenLeaf.  (I'm sure Rio will be available to make photocopies of this story for anyone :)

When we were talking about Procne in Greek Mythology we could not find a definition of what birds everyone turned into in Ovid's telling. Sexson routed through the depths of his library and found the metamophoses that will be on our tests.

Tereus translates into a Hoopoe
Philomela transforms into a Nightingale
Procne metamorphs into a Swallow


Remember Scylla- The look of Purple Hair


Myths is Bulls (Sexson widsom)

Bull is a Crete story

Aside; Hermes- In Greece all the Phallus' (Hermes had an ever hard on) were Knocked off the Hermes at crossroads during the Christian movement.

FOR  YOUR OWN ENJOYMENT- Research Priapus

Greek word for home- Nostos- Nostalgic

Buy Eugene O'niel's Desire Under the Elms

Shakespeare's Richard III is translation (you know, of sorts) of Daedulus and Icarus (SU-ON)

Read Portrait of An Artist As A Young Man in your spare (do we still have this?) time. (By James Joyce)

Daedulus and Icarus

Daedulus says "Though he owns all, he does not own the air."

"The artists needs to alter nature so that it can be seen as it really is"- Sexson Wisdom 101, this is inside of the story.

"The artist trains the world to see things."- Sexson Wisdom 201.

The Next few weeks we will be focusing on the story of Baucis and Philemon. You should begin reading Henderson and the Rain King and it would be wise to begin thinking of a paper topic now instead of later.