Class notes 9/28/2010

"the soul is commonly supposed to escape by the natural openings of the body, especially the mouth and nostrils.  Hence in Celebes they sometimes fasten fish-hooks to a sick man's nose, navel, and feet, so that if his soul should try to escape it may be hooked and held fast."

9/28/2010

Lit 285

-read chapter 7 of Myth and reality and blog about it (read Carrie and corrines blog)

-write five sentence pertaining to each chapter of The Metamorphoses of Ovid

-in addition keep track of all the changes and think about the reasons why the happen

-embellish blog s with pictures Ovid’s Metamorphoses related to

-look at Dustin’s blog to get an idea of sentences and blogging styles

-go home and find a Greek to roman transfigures

-Hubris means pride

-etiology is an explanation of why thing are

Greek and Roman gods and goddesses is a good hand book to explain all of them

-Demeter becomes Ceres

-persephony

Greek to Roman (know all the major ones)

-Zeus becomes Jove/Jupiter

-Pitar (means head person)

-Ares becomes mars

-Hermes becomes Mercury

-Aphrodite’s to Venus

-Chthonic means over related to the world (know for test)

-Moribund mean at the point of death\

-Corrine’s birthday is July 16,

Sparogmos-refers to an ancient ritual in which a living animal, or sometimes even a human being, would be sacrificed by being dismembered

Actean had horns grow because of looking at Daphne while she was bathing.

Theos-means god

---Greek mythology of gods, they are the ones that always make you do what you do.

-Daemon-a divinity supernatural being of a nature or god

Apollo & Daphne------daughter of Penus is turned into an oak tree by her father to have protection from Apollo’s love. Her leaves are placed on heads for rulers.

+++look up Daphne or Metamorphosis by Norman O’Brown.  Idea of transformation (Daphne to a tree and the tree to have its leaves placed on the head of man.)