Class notes 9/23/2010

"O friends, in this great city that climbs the yellow slope Of Agrigentum's citadel, who make good works you scope, Who offer to the stranger a haven quiet and fair, All hail! among you honoured I walk with lofty air.  With garlands, blooming garlands you crown my noble brow, A mortal man no longer, a deathless godhead now.  Where e'er I go, the people crowd round and worship pay, and thousands follow seeking to learn the better way.  some crave prophetic visions, some smite with anguish sore would fain hear words of comfort and suffer pain no more."

Lit 285

9/23/2010

Suggestions when reading Ovid’s metamorphoses:

Assignment:

-go on line and fine at least one good picture according to each chapter to post as you blog.

-read Ovid and blog as you go.

- Write down each 15 books and item under each, of Ovid and write down a sentence about each. Your own take on what it means or your translation.

-bog entry about ch 7 in myth and reality by Eliade

-read Geneses, chapter 6 of bible.

Ovid…Beginning of Book:

-Anima -my soul (Latin work)

The difference between amidian creation story and biblical is that the amidian creation is vague on who began everything.

-page 6, the great myth of declining age. (Gold, silver, bronze, iron)

-James Joyce wrote Finnegan’s Wake.  Book tries to cram all creation and myths into one book.

  All women become one.

    -Letha- Lethal

-Anamnesis-recollection, reminiscence, literally-loss of forgetfulness, is a term used in medicine,    philosophy, psychoanalysis and religion first used by the Greek philosopher Plato to equate learning with remembering.

Myth women-Diana, Athena, I-The triple goddess

1. Mother

2. Maiden

3. Crone- old women who is usually disagreeable, malicious, or sinister in manner, often with magical or supernatural associations that can make her either helpful or obstructing. Is a central mythological character.

Greek mythology creation story:

Aphrodite- Goddess of love.  Know the story of her creation for the test.

Osiris- Egyptian myth. A god originally connected with fertility, husband of Isis and father of Horus. He is known chiefly through the story of his death at the hands of his brother Seth and his subsequent restoration to a new life.

Métis- meant cunningness or craft, skill in ancient Greek.

Athena- Greek mythology.  Goddess of Athens worshiped as the goddess of wisdom, handicrafts, and warfare. She is often allegorized into a personification of wisdom. Also called Pallas.

Leda-wife of Tyndale’s, king of Sparta. (Swan visited her and had children)

Hubris-

Alethia- Latin rendering of healing. Or related to the goddess.