Assignments for the week of November 14-18
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| This vase paints shows Diomedes (left), being aided by Athena, attacking Aeneas (right), being protected by Aprhodite. |
Tuesday: Visiting Teacher Dave Richardson: The Greek Language--From Homer to the New Testament
Wednesday: A wily surprise test on unsuspecting Trojans.
Discussion of The Iliad,
including the fine poetry ending Book 8
Thursday: Words of Wisdom from Glenn Arbery concerning the Iliad, of course, and the topic of honor.
A pleasant retake of unpleasant tests on Book 3 and 4
Friday: A Discussion of the Exemplary Rhetorical Discourses of Book 9
A Note from Agamemnon to the Achaians:
As a lion that stalks a hapless deer for days without obtaining a meal,
So we have lingered too long by the ships and have not pressed against the gates
of far-reaching Ilion, on the plains beyond the river Skamandros.
With times of feasting and respite before us in the days ahead, yet we must be armed
for dark days loom ahead and the mist of illiteracy unless we take up the ashen spear.
Meaning, folks, we will need to be on Book 18 by the end of the next week of school.
Notable Quotables:
"My own eyes are not enough for me, I will see through the eyes of others. Reality, even seen through the eyes of many, is not enough. I will see what others have invented. I regret that the brutes cannot write books. Very gladly would I learn what face things present to a mouse or a bee; more gladly still would I perceive the olfactory world charged with all the information and emotion it carries for a dog....
"But in reading great literature, I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, in knowing, I transcend myself, and am never more myself than when I do."
C. S. Lewis
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