tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3357149703164098442024-03-21T05:02:13.998-07:00Veritas Humanities: Ancient and Classical WorldThere is nothing new under the sun.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01151496978820396884noreply@blogger.comBlogger75125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-335714970316409844.post-29798710389610124462012-03-21T20:08:00.000-07:002012-03-21T20:08:06.612-07:00Current ReadingsAs March begins winding down, we are currently getting acquainted with one of the political classics of all<br />
time--Plato's <em>Republic--</em>and enjoying the opening books of that greatest of travelogues--Homer's <em>Odyssey.</em><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">On the cover, a portion of the School of Athens: Plato, left, argues with his student Aristotle, right. <br />
Neither was right.</td></tr>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01151496978820396884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-335714970316409844.post-9399018598685011552012-02-06T09:14:00.000-08:002012-02-06T09:14:20.162-08:00Back from Lemnos--Humanities Blog Revives<div style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-size: large;">Assignments for the Week of February 6--10</span></b></div><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Philoctetes: Oh, my aching foot!</td></tr>
</tbody></table><strong>Monday:</strong> Finish the <em>Thermopylae </em>Test on Chapters 4 and 5<br />
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Begin Reading <em>Prometheus Bound. </em>This will enable us to complete all 3 volumes of <em>Greek Tragedies.</em><br />
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Read the following for Homework: Essay--"Tragedy and Comedy"<br />
<em>Thermopylae, </em>Chapters 6, 7 & 8<br />
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<strong>Tuesday: </strong>Test Over <em>Thermopylae, </em>Chapters 6, 7, & 8.<br />
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Finish Reading <em>Prometheus Bound.</em><br />
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Classwork and Homework on Greek Tragedies<br />
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<strong>Wednesday: A Test to Overshadow All Tests Over Greek Tragedies</strong><br />
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Continue with the Film: <em>300 Spartans</em><br />
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Reading: Chapters 9--11 of <em>Thermopylae</em><br />
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<strong>Thursday: </strong>Test Over Chapters 9--11 of <em>Thermopylae</em><br />
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Briefing Over TRAGEDIES PAPER<br />
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Homework: Write the Tragedies Paper, Step 1--The 3 Paragraphs<br />
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<strong>Friday: </strong>In-Class Peer Reviews of THE TRAGEDIES PAPER<br />
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Continue (finish) <em>300 Spartans</em><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;"><strong>Instructions for THE TRAGEDIES PAPER</strong></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Decide which 3 Tragedies are your favorites.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Rank them--from 3rd to 1st</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Decide what factors make a tragedy a favorite</span></div><ul><li><div style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Heroic characters</span></em></div></li>
<li><div style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Feminine characters</span></em></div></li>
<li><div style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Surprise endings</span></em></div></li>
<li><div style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Sin or Forgiveness</span></em></div></li>
<li><div style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Struggling against Fate</span></em></div></li>
<li><div style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">Human flaws</span></em></div></li>
<li><div style="text-align: center;"><em><span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">or whatever else you can think of.</span></em></div></li>
</ul><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">Write a paragraph on each of the three plays you chose, using the factors you chose.</span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times, "Times New Roman", serif;">"The Greeks present a picture of their culture and say, this is the way it is--thsi is what we value, this is what makes us who we are, this is who is included, who excluded--and then blast the entire conglomeration to pieces. What is most often misunderstood about Classical literature is that almost <em>all </em>of it was composed as a critique of Greek society and the very values that allowed it to flourish. The most important legacy of the Greeks and Romans is this uniquely Western urge to pick apart everything--every insitution, tradition, individual. Only in this manner do ideas change at all--and only in this way does an author find any credibility with the reading or listening audience."</span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: Times;">Victor Davis Hansen and John Heath, <em>Who Killed Homer?</em></span></div><br />
<strong> </strong> Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01151496978820396884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-335714970316409844.post-20466960237255716182011-12-09T08:25:00.000-08:002011-12-09T08:25:33.556-08:00To the Gates of Troy<div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Assignments for the Last Weeks of the Semester: </span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;"> In the Tenth Year of the Trojan War</span></strong></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Finish the <em>Iliad</em></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">First to finish was brilliant Mr. House, wielder of books read and students broken under his ashen spear.</div><div style="text-align: left;">Finished on Thursday at 11:00 a.m.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;">The Paper:</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Write a 3 to 5 paragraph paper comparing the situations, personalities, and connections between two of the characters of the <em>Iliad.</em></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Achilles and Agamemnon</div><div style="text-align: left;">Achilles and Thetis</div><div style="text-align: left;">Achilles and Patroklos</div><div style="text-align: left;">Achilles and Priam</div><div style="text-align: left;">Achilles and Hektor</div><div style="text-align: left;">Or whatever combination you prefer.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">The paper will be read in class as part of your semester test.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: left;"></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01151496978820396884noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-335714970316409844.post-43525524797591574722011-11-28T09:09:00.000-08:002011-11-28T09:09:04.688-08:00To The Ships, O Achaians<div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Week of November 28--December 2</span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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Discussion up through Book 11 (The Book of Wounds)<br />
Overview or Preview of Book 12<br />
Discussion of <em>the <strong>PAPER--</strong></em>The Aristeia of Humanities Students in their Kleos<br />
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***Tonight: Read Books 13 and 14***<br />
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<strong>Tuesday</strong>: Book 12 Hektor smashes through the gates<br />
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Book 13 The Greeks rally and Poseidon encourages the Achaians<br />
Book 14 Nestor meets wit the wounded Heroes; meanwhile, Zeus is distracted from the Trojan War<br />
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<strong><em>THE PAPER: ideas, thoughts, initial plans...the brainstorming of the gates of lethargy.</em></strong><br />
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***Tonight: Read Books 15-16***<br />
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<strong>Wednesday</strong>: Book 15 Hektor's Aristeia continues as he breaks through to the ships<br />
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Book 16 THE TURNING POINT OF <em>THE ILIAD</em><br />
What can Dr. Leithart show us? Will he help us with our papers?<br />
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***Tonight: With fires blazing at the very black ships, read Book 17 (or get caught up).***<br />
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<strong>Thursday:</strong> Book 17 The Fight for the Body of Patroklos<br />
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Writing about <em>The Iliad--S</em>tudents rush in where epic poets fear to tread.<br />
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***Tonight: With tears shed for Patroklos, read Book 18***<br />
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<strong>Friday:</strong> Book <strong>18 THE SHIELD OF ACHILLES</strong><br />
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Read it, discuss it, explain it, and draw it.<br />
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<u>We Will Finish <em>The Iliad </em>Next Week.</u><br />
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BE READY FOR A TEST ANY DAY AND EVERY DAY.<br />
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Write a brief journal entry after reading each book. At home, on your own, to have and hold in class, for a possible grade.<br />
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"When modern readers ask what makes men and women keep reading <em>the Iliad</em>....Surely the answer lies in the unsparing beauty of the heroic vision that the poem perennially renews: it inspires heroic enterprises, whether the conquest of nations, explorations of consciousness or massive literary undertakings. To make the poem one's own is to enter the dimension of the heroic imagination, and the<em> Iliad </em>is able to issue the liberating call to such heroic possibility with less cultural or historical static than any other work one could name."<br />
<div style="text-align: center;">Glenn Arbery, "Soul and Image: The Single Honor of Achilles"<em> </em></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01151496978820396884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-335714970316409844.post-39739653700713807922011-11-18T07:47:00.000-08:002011-11-18T07:52:12.414-08:00Of Arms and Armaments--Battling with Spears and Rhetoric<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><br />
<div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Assignments for the week of November 14-18</span></strong></div><br />
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</tbody></table><strong>Monday:</strong> Discussion of <em>The Iliad</em><br />
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<strong>Tuesday:</strong> Visiting Teacher Dave Richardson: The Greek Language--From Homer to the New Testament<br />
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<strong>Wednesday</strong>: A wily surprise test on unsuspecting Trojans.<br />
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Discussion of <em>The Iliad, </em><br />
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<em> </em>including the fine poetry ending Book 8<br />
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<strong>Thursday:</strong> Words of Wisdom from Glenn Arbery concerning the <em>Iliad, </em>of course, and the topic of honor.<br />
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A pleasant retake of unpleasant tests on Book 3 and 4<br />
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<strong>Friday:</strong> A Discussion of the Exemplary Rhetorical Discourses of Book 9<br />
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<strong>A Note from Agamemnon to the Achaians:</strong><br />
<div style="text-align: center;">As a lion that stalks a hapless deer for days without obtaining a meal, </div><div style="text-align: center;">So we have lingered too long by the ships and have not pressed against the gates</div><div style="text-align: center;">of far-reaching Ilion, on the plains beyond the river Skamandros.</div><div style="text-align: center;">With times of feasting and respite before us in the days ahead, yet we must be armed</div><div style="text-align: center;">for dark days loom ahead and the mist of illiteracy unless we take up the ashen spear.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Meaning, folks, we will need to be on Book 18 by the end of the next week of school.</div><br />
Notable Quotables:<br />
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"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....<br />
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"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."<br />
<span style="color: #222222;"><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"></span></span></span>C. S. Lewis<br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">by </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Ben House</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">As Written for the Humanities Class of Veritas Academy</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><strong><em>With apologies to Mr. Charles Dickens, in hope that his heirs will not find out about this literary rustling.</em></strong></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br />
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</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01151496978820396884noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-335714970316409844.post-78621127120995821742011-11-08T08:12:00.000-08:002011-11-08T16:00:28.128-08:00Aresteia and Honor and the Bronze Ashen Spear<div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Assignments for the Week of November 7-11</span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">According to Homer, the Trojan War lasted ten years....It was the greatest war in history, involving at least 100,000 men in each army as well as 1,184 Greek ships....Ironically, the <em>Iliad </em>focuses on a pitched battle on the Trjan Plain, although most of the war was fought elsewhere and consisted of raids. And the <em>Iliad </em>concentrates on only two months in the ninth year of the long conflict.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Barry Strauss, <em>The Trojan War: A New History</em></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><strong>Monday:</strong><br />
Discussion of Books 4 through 6: The Wounding of Menelaus and the Aristeia of Diomedes.<br />
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Handout: Key Issues from Books 3-5and Outline of Books 5 through 7<br />
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<strong>Tuesday:</strong><br />
Opening Question: What does it mean (or what might it have meant) for a mortal, like Diomedes, to wage war against not just the Trojan Army, but the Olympian gods themselves?<br />
(How might it relate to the greater theme of the book?)<br />
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Book 6: Key Achaian Victories and Hektor's Visit with Family<br />
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History from Spielvogel: Survey Chapter 2, pages 30-48. Write a one page synopsis of either Assyrians, Neo-Babylonians, or Persians.<br />
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For Tonight: Read Book 7 of the <em>Iliad</em><br />
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<strong>Wednesday: </strong><br />
Synopses of Synopses: The Ancient Near East: Peoples and Empires in Brief<br />
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Discussion of Book 7 of the <em>Iliad. </em><br />
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For Tonight: Read Book 8 of the <em>Iliad</em><br />
<em>& </em>Read Leithart's Discussion of Books 1--8 from <em>Heros.</em><br />
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<strong>Thursday:</strong><br />
Role Playing: The Class as Peter Leithart, discussing Books 1--8.<br />
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Into the History of Greece: A Race Across Spielvogel, Chapter 3, "The Civilization of the Greeks."<br />
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A Chart: 10 Defining Statements About Greek Civilization<br />
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For Tonight: Read Book 9 of the <em>Iliad</em><br />
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<strong>Friday:</strong> <br />
The Epitome of Rhetoric: The Envoy to Achilleus<br />
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More About Greek Civilization<br />
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Warning: All Readers of <em>The Iliad of Homer </em>are subject to being given a test over the more recent readings, themes, ideas, notes, or discussions. Read, think, listen, take notes, reflect, remember.<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">"Homer is the poet of all ages, all races, and all moods. To the Greeks, the epics were not only the best romances, the richest poetry; not only their oldest documents about their own history--they were also their Bible, their treasury of religious traditions and moral teaching. With the Bible and Shakespeare, the Homeric poems are the best training for life."<br />
from Andrew Lang's essay, "Homeric and the Study of Greek"<br />
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<strong>Monday</strong><br />
Thoughts taken from <em>Homeric Greek: A Book for Beginners </em>by Clyde Pharr<br />
Characteristics of Epic Poetry<br />
Questions and Discussion Points about Book 2<br />
Discussion of Thersites<br />
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<strong>Tuesday</strong><br />
Continuation of the Discussion of Book 2<br />
Discussion of Book 3<br />
By Now, You Should Know Nearly All the Main Characters<br />
Characteristics of Epic Poetry Quiz<br />
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<strong>Wednesday</strong><br />
Book 4<br />
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<strong>Thursday</strong><br />
Book 5<br />
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<strong>Friday</strong><br />
Book 6<br />
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</div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01151496978820396884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-335714970316409844.post-84969380267395241272011-10-21T14:01:00.000-07:002011-10-22T18:42:23.245-07:00When First There Stood in Division of Conflict...Achilles and Agamemnon<div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-size: large;">Assignments for the Week of October 24-28</span></strong></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And the will of Zeus was accomplished since that time when first there stood in division of conflict Atreus' son the lord of men and brilliant Achilleus.</td></tr>
</tbody></table> <div style="text-align: center;"> Painting above is by William Page, 1811-1885</div><div style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://americangallery.wordpress.com/2010/08/01/william-page-1811-1885/">http://americangallery.wordpress.com/2010/08/01/william-page-1811-1885/</a></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">"By the general consent of criticks, the first praise of genius is due to the writer of an epick poem, as it reqireds an assemblage of all the powers which are singly sufficient for other compositions."</div><div style="text-align: center;">Dr. Samuel Johnson</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
<strong>Monday: </strong>Scholarly insights from an insightful scholar.</div><div style="text-align: left;">The Trojan War as a Whole--As Told by Edith Hamilton and Others</div><div style="text-align: left;">Glenn Arbery on <em>The Iliad</em></div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Close Reading of Book One</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong>Tuesday: </strong>Scholarly insights from an insightful scholar.</div><div style="text-align: left;">Continue with the Trojan War</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Finish with Book One and yet....</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong>Wednesday: </strong>Scholarly insights from an insightful scholar.</div><div style="text-align: left;">Test over Book One</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Begin Discussion and Close Reading of Book Two</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong>Thursday: </strong>Scholarly insights from an insightful scholar.</div><div style="text-align: left;">Further exploration of Book Two</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Preview of Book Three</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;"><strong>Friday: </strong>Scholarly insights from an insightful scholar.</div><div style="text-align: left;">Short, but formal and brilliant, paper containing a character sketch from Book One.</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Readings for the Week:</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;">Homer's <em>Iliad--</em>Books 2--3</div><div style="text-align: center;">Edith Hamilton's <em>Mythology--</em>Part Four--The Trojan War</div><div style="text-align: center;">Peter Leithart--<em>Heroes of the City of Man--</em>Ancient Epic, pages 43--51</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>How to Experience Poetic Beauty</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;">Flee techno-gimickry and distraction.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Find a setting both aesthetic and comfortable.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Find a beverage that is robust and caffeinated.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Read with a desire to find what Allen Tate called "Knowledge carried to the heart."</div><div style="text-align: center;">Read aloud, re-read.</div><div style="text-align: center;">Supplement the assignments with other readings.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Notable and Quotable</strong></div><blockquote><div style="text-align: left;">The French poet and novelist Raymond Queneau (1903-1978) opined, "Every great work of literature is either <em>The Iliad, </em>that is, a story of conflict, strife, battle and war, or <em>The Odyssey, </em>that is, a story of a journey or exile and, after much wandering, a homecoming." <br />
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The extraordinary power of <em>The Iliad</em>, Alberto Manguel says, comes from the fact that it holds in tension two truths: our fascination with war and our abhorrence of its cruelty: "Homer fully understood our ambiguous relationship to violence, our desire for it and our hatred of it, the beauty we ascribe to it and the horror it makes us feel." </div><div style="text-align: left;">From an Amazon reviewer on Alberto Manguel's <em>Homer's the Iliad and the Odyssey: A Biography.</em></div></blockquote><br />
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</tbody></table>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01151496978820396884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-335714970316409844.post-31505331924909366832011-10-16T16:56:00.000-07:002011-10-17T07:44:49.116-07:00Meet Homer...and Tremble<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: black; font-size: large;">Assignments for the Week of October 17-21</span></div><br />
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Who, living, had no roof to shroud his head. </div><div style="text-align: center;">Thomas Heywood in <i>The Hierarchy of the Blessed Angels</i>, 1635. </div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Monday</strong><br />
Book Reviews and Updates<br />
Leitharts and Heavy Thoughts on Hesiod's <em>Theogony</em><br />
The Search for the Trojan War<br />
<strong>A Visitor from our extension campus--Wheaton College</strong><br />
<br />
Readings: <br />
<em>Student's Guide </em>and Hesiod are now past due.<br />
Get Leithart's introduction finished tonight.<br />
Background materials for <em>The Iliad</em><br />
<br />
<strong>Tuesday</strong><br />
<strong>Guest Lecturer: Martin Rizley</strong><br />
Genesis 10 and Background to the Nations<br />
Read Book 1 of <em>The Iliad </em>for Thursday<br />
<br />
<strong>Wednesday</strong><br />
<strong>No School Today in Honor of Veritas 2000 Graduate Zachary Ramsey</strong><br />
"Mr. House, how are you going to teach literature after we graduate?"<br />
I have been trying to answer that question since 2000.<br />
<br />
<strong>Thursday</strong><br />
<strong>Book One of <em>The Iliad</em></strong><br />
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<br />
<strong>Friday</strong><br />
Further efforts to unpack Book One of <em>The Iliad</em><br />
<img alt="Trojan War Heroes" class="photo" src="http://0.tqn.com/d/ancienthistory/1/G/n/E/TrojanWarHeroes.gif" /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Read Books Two and Three by Tuesday of Next Week</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><blockquote>But how did you come to have this skill about Homer only, and not about Hesiod or the other poets? Does not Homer speak of the same themes which all other poets handle? Is not war his great argument? and does he not speak of human society and of intercourse of men, good and bad, skilled and unskilled, and of the gods conversing with one another and with mankind, and about what happens in heaven and in the world below, and the generations of gods and heroes? Are not these the themes of which Homer sings? <br />
<div style="text-align: center;">Socrates, quoted in <em>The Dialoges of Plato</em></div></blockquote>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01151496978820396884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-335714970316409844.post-89778542093977552382011-10-13T11:08:00.000-07:002011-10-13T11:08:23.387-07:00Works and Days--Past and Present <br />
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<strong>Monday:</strong> Columbus discovered what the Ancient Phoenicians already knew quite well: The Huge Continents between Europe and Asia.<br />
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<strong>Tuesday:</strong> Brief discussion of Hesiod and Bruce Thornton<br />
<br />
Read from Spielvogel, Chapter 1, regarding Egypt; write 10 facts or questions about Egypt.<br />
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<strong>Wednesday</strong>: Test over Egypt<br />
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Discussion of readings.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Helpful Overview of the Writings from Antiquity</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><div align="left">A Poet Who Preceded Homer</div></td></tr>
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<strong>Thursday:</strong> Journal Entry: What I realized after reading...Hesiod or Thornton.<br />
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Looking closer at Hesiod. <br />
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Prepare for a test over Mesopotamia and Egypt<br />
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<strong>Friday:</strong> A Test over Mesopotamia and Egypt<br />
<br />
Gleaning from Peter Leithart.<br />
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<blockquote>With ideas and literature, the confrontation between the Bible and paganism will be more intense, but with great care and wisdom, we can plunder even pagan literature and make it work for us. As Proverbs says, the wealth of the wicked is stored up for the righteous (Proverbs 13:22). </blockquote><blockquote><div style="text-align: center;">From <em>Heroes in the City of Man, </em>pages 19-20.</div></blockquote>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01151496978820396884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-335714970316409844.post-75724395643985516212011-09-30T14:42:00.000-07:002011-09-30T14:42:09.664-07:00Evaluating Jerusalem and AthensAssignments for the Week of 3-7<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">How Should Christians View Ancient Literature?<br />
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</tbody></table><strong>Monday:</strong> The Historical Context of the Ancient World<br />
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A Survey of Mesopotamia and Egypt<br />
Jackson Spielvogel, <em>Western Civilization,</em> pages 6-29<br />
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Literature of the Ancient World<br />
Peter Leithart, <em>Heroes of the City of Man</em><br />
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Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and the World of Mesopotamia<br />
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<strong>Tuesday:</strong> The Historical Context of the Ancient World<br />
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A Survey of Mesopotamia and Egypt<br />
Jackson Spielvogel, <em>Western Civilization,</em> pages 6-29<br />
<br />
Literature of the Ancient World<br />
Peter Leithart, <em>Heroes of the City of Man</em><br />
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Joseph and the World of Ancient Egypt<br />
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<strong>Wednesday:</strong><br />
In-class Writing Assignment on <em>Primeval Saints </em>by James Jordan<br />
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Continue <br />
Literature of the Ancient World<br />
Peter Leithart, <em>Heroes of the City of Man</em><br />
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<strong>Thursday:</strong> Classwork on <em>Western Civilization, </em>6--29<br />
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Continue with Leithart.<br />
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<strong>Friday:</strong> Read Papers in Class on Greek Mythological Figures and Biblical Characters<br />
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"Here were two races, each very conscious of being different from its neighbors, living not very far apart, yet for the most part in complete ignorance of each other and influenceing each other not at all until the period follwoing Alexander's conquests....Yet it was the fusion of what was most characteristic in these two cultures--the religious earnestness of the Hebrews with the reason and humanity of the Greeks--which was to form the basis of later European culture, the Christian religion."<br />
<blockquote>H.D.F. Kitto, <em>The Greeks, </em>page 8</blockquote>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01151496978820396884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-335714970316409844.post-12221123602005456302011-09-26T12:38:00.000-07:002011-09-26T12:38:24.530-07:00Covenant Heroes and Lesser Known Greek MythsAssignments for the Week of September 26-30<br />
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNTeVckWARiiWnLY63wISdtx5pdfoRhQNchQFFHs03ctFpc-emR2j60cLOV49Bv-NhE0bkbgfVRzextOb1d2Us90T4e6sLqEyqoxaNXOChSDhN_AP8Rbj0d4fRfWmiViXBPLZecYPOWqI/s1600/Isaac+blesses+Jacob.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" height="310px" kca="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiNTeVckWARiiWnLY63wISdtx5pdfoRhQNchQFFHs03ctFpc-emR2j60cLOV49Bv-NhE0bkbgfVRzextOb1d2Us90T4e6sLqEyqoxaNXOChSDhN_AP8Rbj0d4fRfWmiViXBPLZecYPOWqI/s320/Isaac+blesses+Jacob.jpg" width="320px" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Isaac Blesses Jacob</td></tr>
</tbody></table><strong>Monday:</strong><br />
Test Over Mythological Figures <br />
Work on <em>The Paper: </em>Characters to Contrast<br />
Discuss the Paper<br />
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<strong>Tuesday:</strong><br />
Second Attempts at Test Over Mythological Figures<br />
Work on <em>The Paper: </em>Writing an Introductory Paragraph<br />
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Discuss the Royal Houses of Thebes and Athens<br />
Discuss Isaac and Jacob<br />
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<strong>Wednesday:</strong><br />
Work on <em>The Paper: </em>The Thesis Sentence, Concrete Particulars, and Commentary<br />
Grade Roundup: Check Tests and Check Readings<br />
<br />
Discuss Shorter Myths<br />
The Story of Joseph<br />
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<strong>Thursday:</strong><br />
In-class Writing Time<br />
Continue Discussing Shorter Myths<br />
<br />
Continue with the Story of Joseph and Pharoah<br />
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<strong>Friday:</strong> <br />
Peer Reviews of Papers<br />
<br />
Wrap up discussions of Greek figures and Biblical characters.<br />
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<strong>Reading Assignments for the Week:</strong><br />
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From Edith Hamilton, <em>Mythology: </em>Read Part 6--The Less Important Myths<br />
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From James Jordan, <em>Primeval Saints: </em>Finish the Book!<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">"Several times Paul quotes from pagan poets, just as he quotes from the Old Testament to prove a theological point....Since Paul did not have a <em>Bartlett's Familiar Quotations </em>to aid him, we would have to conclude that he had a firsthand acquaintance with Greek literature, including its fiction, and knew parts of it by heart. The principle that emerges is that the Bible affirms, in a variety of ways, the value of reading literature, since it tells us things that are true and worth knowing."</div><div style="text-align: center;">Leland Ryken, <em>Culture in Christian Perspective</em></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01151496978820396884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-335714970316409844.post-40470855334812998102011-09-19T11:33:00.000-07:002011-09-19T11:33:13.868-07:00The Rise of Fall of Greek Houses and Biblical Patriarchs<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><strong>Assignments for the Week of September 19-23</strong></span></div><br />
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</tbody></table><strong>Monday:</strong> Discussion of Great Adventures and of Four Great Heroes Before the Trojan War<br />
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Class Presentations<br />
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<strong>Tuesday:</strong> What was Hercules' problem?<br />
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Handouts on <em>Mythology.</em><br />
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<strong>Wednesday:</strong> From Cain to Nimrod--Biblical Patterns of Faith and Rebellion<br />
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Work on handouts.<br />
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<strong>Thursday:</strong> William Faulkner and the Fall of Greek Mythological Families<br />
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Work on handouts.<br />
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<strong>Friday:</strong> A More Extensive Test over .....<br />
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Comparisons between Greeks and Jews<br />
<br />
Be mentally preparing for a paper next week comparing one Greek figure with a person from Genesis.<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Readings for the Week:</strong></div><div style="text-align: center;">From <em>Mythology: </em>Part Five--the Great Families of Mythology</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">From <em>Primeval Saints: </em>Chapters 2-5</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">Genesis: Scan and review.</div><br />
A Quote to Note: <br />
<blockquote><div style="text-align: left;">"We have all been programmed by our Creator with a desire to seek and yearn after the God who is truth. If it is true, as Paul teaches in Acts 17:26-28, that we are all made in His image, that He is not far from us, that in Him we live and move and have our being, then it must also be true that those timeless works of ancient Greece and Rome that record the musings of humanity's greatest seekers and yearners will contain traces, remnants and intimations of that widsom which made us."</div><div style="text-align: left;">Louis Markos, <em>From Achilles to Christ: Why Christians Should Read the Pagan Classics</em></div></blockquote>Coming Soon: Hesiod's <em>Theogony and Works and Days, </em>Leithart's <em>Heroes in the City of Man, </em>and Thornton's <em>Student's Guide to the Classics.</em>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01151496978820396884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-335714970316409844.post-78323410097141029562011-09-13T10:47:00.000-07:002011-09-13T10:47:43.571-07:00Heroes Mythological and Mosaic<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;">Assignments for the Week of September 12-16</span></div><br />
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</tbody></table> <strong>Monday:</strong> Gods and Goddesses<br />
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The Story of Dionysus: The God-Man of Greek Mythology, the God of Wine (freedom and brutality), and the hope of Eternal Life<br />
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<strong>Tuesday:</strong> Tales of Love and Adventure<br />
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Looking for the Contrasts<br />
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<strong>Wednesday:</strong> Test Over the 12 Olympians<br />
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The Quest for the Golden Fleece<br />
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<strong>Thursday:</strong> Four Great Adventures<br />
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<em>Primeval Saints: Studies in the Patriarchs of Genesis </em>by James Jordan<br />
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<strong>Friday:</strong> Four Great Heroes Before the Trojan War<br />
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Perseus Theseus Hercules Atalanta<br />
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Readings for the Week Include:<br />
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Edith Hamilton, <em>Mythology, </em>Parts 2 and 3<br />
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James Jordan, <em>Primeval Saints, </em>Introduction and Chapters 1 and 2Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01151496978820396884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-335714970316409844.post-4518094725877331182011-09-05T19:40:00.000-07:002011-09-05T19:40:49.471-07:00September 5-9 In the Lurky Realms of Origins and Myths<div style="text-align: center;"><span class="body"></span><span class="body"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Assignments and Plans for the Week of September 5--9</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="body"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.</span></span> <br />
<span class="bodybold"><a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/t/thomasbulf306319.html"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Thomas Bulfinch</strong></span></a><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"> </span></strong></span></div><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Classic Work on the Greek Myths--a Love Affair Between a Teacher and Her Subject<br />
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</tbody></table>Monday: Labor Day: "Oh what a beautiful morning, Oh what a beautiful day, I've got a wonder feeling about Humanities on Tuesday...."<br />
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Tuesday: Omnibus Ancient World handout on Edith Hamilton's <em>Mythology.</em><br />
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This Week, read Part One: The Gods, The Creation, and the Earliest Heroes<br />
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Wednesday: Surveying how the Historians Approach Origins:<br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;">Comparing Carleton J.H. Hayes and Jackson Spielvogel</div><div align="left" style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Thursday: Gods and Heroes</div><div style="text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: left;">Friday: Archeological Labors: Gathering Artifacts of Civilization--a.k.a. Cleaning Up Downtown</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
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</div><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="body"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;">We read Greek and Norse mythology until it came out of our ears. And the Bible.</span></span> <br />
<span class="bodybold"><a href="http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/p/penelopeli222834.html"><span style="color: #0000cc; font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"><strong>Penelope Lively</strong></span></a><strong><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"> </span></strong></span><br />
<span class="body"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: x-small;"></span></span></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01151496978820396884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-335714970316409844.post-78778472411807783922011-08-25T21:06:00.000-07:002011-08-25T21:06:32.183-07:00Rumblings on the Horizon: Ancient and Classical World<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgapb0gLF9QKk9mBsTBzOV1doTTdcXQlKLkElxofev4uUrm_e9BZcQdg8c9X7QrCwMyztAXiq2Aern7QvA-fVN9BzTsRwchcJG-dcqd3xC2SA_XtzTYhSpBMi9mH7VunF-hf28fI_7NEeg/s1600/Punic+Wars.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" qaa="true" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgapb0gLF9QKk9mBsTBzOV1doTTdcXQlKLkElxofev4uUrm_e9BZcQdg8c9X7QrCwMyztAXiq2Aern7QvA-fVN9BzTsRwchcJG-dcqd3xC2SA_XtzTYhSpBMi9mH7VunF-hf28fI_7NEeg/s1600/Punic+Wars.jpg" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">When all else fails, read the teacher's book.</div><div align="center"></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01151496978820396884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-335714970316409844.post-61244547229218129772011-06-12T18:59:00.000-07:002011-06-12T18:59:35.902-07:00Humanities in the Summer--The Teacher's Work Never Ends<div class="widget Blog" id="Blog1"><div class="blog-posts hfeed"><!-- google_ad_section_start(name=default) --><div class="date-outer"><div class="date-posts"><div class="post-outer"><div class="post hentry uncustomized-post-template"><a href="" name="1319975121409559191"></a><h3 class="post-title entry-title"><a href="http://benhouseblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/workshop-outline-for-accs-conference-on.html"><span style="color: black;">Workshop Outline for the ACCS Conference on June 16</span></a> </h3><div class="post-header"><div class="post-header-line-1"></div></div><div class="post-body entry-content"> </div><div class="post-body entry-content"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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Here is the outline for my upcoming talk at the Conference for the Association of Classical Christian Schools in Atlanta, Georgia this coming Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. </div><div class="post-body entry-content"><a href="http://benhouseblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/workshop-outline-for-accs-conference-on.html">Continue Reading....</a></div><div class="post-body entry-content"><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dostoevsky's Study where Brothers Karamazov was written</td></tr>
</tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;">These members of the Veritas Modern World Humanities Class have now finished </div><div style="text-align: center;"><em>The Brothers Karamazov </em>by Fyodor Dostoevsky:</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">1. Liz Woll (Weekend)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">2. Wesley Daniel (Monday night)</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">3. Mr. House (at 11:00 p.m. Tuesday night)<br />
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4. Nicholas House (Thursday afternoon)<br />
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5. George Hornok (Memorial Day)<br />
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6. Eric Auel (June 30)<br />
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7. Leah Duncan (the morning of June 30)<br />
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8. Asher Wagnon (June 30)<br />
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And a most amazing student of Russian heritage is still plodding along, one paragraph at a time.</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">There is much gold to be mined in some of Dostoevsky's other great works:</div><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Read by the teacher in college many years ago.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Started, but never finished.</td></tr>
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<div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So Many Books, So Little Time</span></strong></div><br />
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<div style="text-align: center;"><strong><span style="font-family: Arial;">Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student.</span> <br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica;"> - George Iles</span> </strong></div><br />
<strong>Monday:</strong> Racing toward the finish line of <em>The Brothers Dostoevsky.</em><br />
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If I am not in class, begin watching "Nicholas and Alexandra."<br />
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<strong>Tuesday:</strong> A frightening test over <em>The Brothers Karamazov.</em><br />
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<strong>Wednesday:</strong> Semester Test, Part 1:<br />
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Bring a two page writing to class on this topic: The Books That Made the Most Impact on My Thinking This Year.<br />
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Be prepared to write out a list of all the books we have read or read portions from.<br />
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<strong>Thursday:</strong> Semester Test, Part 2: Questions and Answers Over Everything.<br />
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<strong>Friday:</strong> Graduation<br />
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<div style="text-align: center;">***Bonus Question for the Week: Who Was Abraham Kuyper?***</div><br />
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Alas, we do not even have the time to watch the fine historical documentary of <em>The Guns of August, </em>nor the well done movie account of <em>Nicholas and Alexandra.</em><br />
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</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">Barbara Tuchman was one of the best historical writers of recent times. <em>The Guns of August </em>won her a Pulitizer Prize and many readers. The book has remained in print from 1962 to the present. It should be on any history teacher's short list of vital books about the 20th century and World War I. </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><br />
</div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="http://benhouseblog.blogspot.com/">Continue Reading</a></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01151496978820396884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-335714970316409844.post-19304270827086947932011-05-15T20:39:00.000-07:002011-05-15T20:39:50.714-07:00The Descent into Modernity: The 20th Century<div style="text-align: center;">Assignments for the Week of May 16-20</div><br />
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<strong>Monday: </strong>Mr. House will duly report to court for jury duty today. Your trial is a different one: Read extensively from <em>The Brothers Karamazov. </em>Prepare a report that includes your starting and stopping pages on today's reading. Be prepared to write a short (one or more pages) account tomorrow of the reading you do today.<br />
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The official assignment: Book Seven: Alyosha<br />
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<strong>Tuesday: </strong>The Twentieth Century Foretold and Told in Poetry: "Dover Beach" by Matthew Arnold<br />
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An Outline of the 20th Century<br />
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Discussion of <em>The Brothers Karamazov</em><br />
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Reading Assignment: Book Eight: Mitya <br />
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<strong>Wednesday:</strong> The Twentieth Century Foretold and Told in Poetry: "The Darkling Thrush" by Thomas Hardy<br />
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Events Leading Up to World War I<br />
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<em>Brothers Karamazov </em>Discussion Points<br />
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Reading Assignment: Book Nine: The Preliminary Investigation<br />
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<strong>Thursday: </strong>The Twentieth Century Foretold and Told in Poetry: "The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats<br />
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World War I--In Brief<br />
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<em>Brothers Karamazov </em>Discussion<br />
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Reading Assignment: Continue Book Nine<br />
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<strong>Friday: </strong>The Twentieth Century Foretold and Told in Poetry: "Dulce Et Decorum Est" by Wilfred Owen<br />
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The Russian Revolution<br />
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Simon Schama Video--"The Two Winstons"<br />
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Quotes from Paul Johnson:<br />
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In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries the Western elites were confident that men and progress were governed by reason. A prime discovery of modern times is that reason plays little part in our affairs.<br />
<strong>- from<span style="color: black;"> </span></strong><a class="SmallType" href="http://www.orthodoxytoday.org/cgi-bin/amazon/apf2.cgi?input_item=0753808269&input_search_type=AsinSearch" rel="external" target="_blank"><em><strong><span style="color: black;">Modern Times: The World From the Twenties to the Nineties</span></strong></em></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My grandfather used to say, "Learn to like art, music and literature deeply and passionately. They will be your friends when things are bad". It is true: at this time of year, when days are short and dark, and one hardly dares to open the newspapers, I turn, not vainly either, to the great creators of the past for distraction, solace and help. <br />
- from a Spectator column in January 2005 </span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Just a Few of Paul Johnson's Great Books</td></tr>
</tbody></table>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01151496978820396884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-335714970316409844.post-47200878517038682032011-05-11T10:04:00.000-07:002011-05-11T10:04:34.240-07:00Notes and Thoughts on The Brothers Karamazov<div class="widget Blog" id="Blog1"><div class="blog-posts hfeed"><!-- google_ad_section_start(name=default) --><div class="date-outer"><h2 class="date-header"><a href="http://benhouseblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/dostoevsky-and-brothers-karamazov-part.html"><span style="color: black;">Dostoevsky and The Brothers Karamazov, Part 1</span></a> </h2><div class="date-posts"><div class="post-outer"><div class="post hentry uncustomized-post-template"><div class="post-header"><div class="post-header-line-1"></div></div><div class="post-body entry-content"> </div><div class="post-body entry-content"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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</tbody></table></div><div class="post-body entry-content">It's May, the end of school is nearing all too fast, and I have assigned my students a journey into the literary and theological labyrinth of Fyodor Dostoevsky's <em>The Brothers Karamazov. </em>This is a book for high schoolers. It is not for them in the sense of being easy, being a "page turner," or identifying with high schoolish fads and foibles. It is a high schooler's book because it is about the battle in the human heart. As the character Dmitri says, "Here is the devil struggling with God, and the battlefield is the human heart." The devil and all his recruiting agents are all camped outside the heart and mind of us, constantly seeking to lure us into hellish wiles. Students may not understand all of Dostoevsky, may not be able to follow all the dialog and discussions, may not grasp every issue, may not perceive the theological subtleties of the book, but they understand something of the battle for the human heart. That is why this book is so important for them.</div><div class="post-body entry-content"> </div><div class="post-body entry-content"><a href="http://benhouseblog.blogspot.com/">Continue reading.</a><br />
</div></div></div></div></div></div></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01151496978820396884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-335714970316409844.post-6339091190732799042011-05-09T09:37:00.000-07:002011-05-09T09:37:16.199-07:00The Brothers Karamazov and the Race Against Time<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Assignments for May 9 to May 13</strong></div><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Dostoevsky</td></tr>
</tbody></table> <strong>Monday: </strong><br />
Finish Simon Schama's "Empire of Good Intentions"<br />
Follow-up readings and discussions of Empires, British and Otherwise<br />
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Dostoevsky Discussion and Helps<br />
Reading from Dostoevsky--Part II, Book Four: Strains<br />
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<strong>Tuesday:</strong><br />
Darwin Reports<br />
Wrap up of Notes and Discussion on Marx's <em>Communist Manifesto</em><br />
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Dostoevsky Discussion and Helps<br />
Reading from Dostoevsky--Part III, Book Five: Pros and Cons<br />
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<strong>Wednesday:</strong><br />
Overview of the 19th Century: Timelines, Key Figures, Key Events<br />
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Reading from Dostoevsky--Part IV, Book Six: The Russian Monk<br />
(This reading should carry you through the week.)<br />
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<strong>Thursday:</strong><br />
Overview of the 20th Century<br />
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<strong>Friday:</strong><br />
Dostoevksy and the 20th Century<br />
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From that fortress of knowledge--Wikipedia:<br />
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<span style="color: black;">Dostoyevsky and the other giant of late 19th century </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_701093484"><span style="color: black;">Russian literature</span></a><span style="color: black;">, </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_701093484"><span style="color: black;">Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy</span></a><span style="color: black;">, never met in person, even though each praised, criticized, and influenced the other (Dostoyevsky remarked of Tolstoy's </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_701093484"><span style="color: black;">Anna Karenina</span></a><span style="color: black;"> that it was a "flawless work of art"; </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_701093484"><span style="color: black;">Henri Troyat</span></a><span style="color: black;"> reports that Tolstoy once remarked of </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_701093484"><span style="color: black;">Crime and Punishment</span></a><span style="color: black;"> that, "Once you read the first few chapters you know pretty much how the novel will end up"). There was a meeting arranged, but there was a confusion about where the meeting place was to take place and they never rescheduled. Tolstoy reportedly burst into tears when he learned of Dostoyevsky's death. A copy of </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_701093484"><span style="color: black;">The Brothers Karamazov</span></a><span style="color: black;"> was found on the nightstand next to Tolstoy's deathbed at the Astapovo railway station.</span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01151496978820396884noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-335714970316409844.post-53579072892587887352011-05-02T19:10:00.000-07:002011-05-02T19:10:07.303-07:00Marx and Darwin versus Dostoevsky...and God<div style="text-align: center;"><strong>Assignments for the Week of May 2--6</strong><br />
</div><div style="text-align: center;">"So great is the worth of Dostoevsky that to have produced him is by itself sufficient justification for the existence of the Russian people in the world: and he will bear witness for </div><div style="text-align: center;">his country-men at the last judgement of the nations." </div><div style="text-align: center;">- <i>Nikolay Berdyaev (1923)</i> </div><br />
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</tbody></table><strong> Monday</strong>: Discussion of "The Death of Ivan Ilych."<br />
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Reading Assignment: <em>The Brothers Karamazov, </em>Part 1, Book 1<br />
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<div> </div><strong>Tuesday</strong>: Terms and Background to <em>The Communist Manifesto. </em><br />
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Reading Assignment: <em>The Brothers Karamazov, </em>Part 1, Book 2, Chapters 1-6<br />
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<div> </div><strong>Wednesday</strong>: Detour to the British Empire--Simon Schama<br />
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Reading updates and quiz<br />
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Reading Assignment: <em>The Brothers Karamazov, </em>Part 1, Book 2, Chs. 7-8, Book 3, Chs. 1-3 <br />
<div> </div><strong>Thursday</strong>: Reports on Darwin's <em>Origin of Species. </em>Handouts must be prepared before class starts.<br />
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Reading Assignment: <em>The Brothers Karamazov, </em>Part 1, Book 3, Chs. 4-11 (due by the end of the week) <br />
<div> </div><strong>Friday</strong>: Track and Field Day. No regular classes.<br />
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Reading Assignment: <em>The Brothers Karamazov, </em>Part 1--to be finished<br />
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"I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness." <br />
<div>- Fyodor Dostoevsky, <i>The Brothers Karamazov</i></div><div> </div><div> </div><br />
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<ul><li><div style="text-align: center;">Keep Up With the Reading of <em>Brothers Karamazov</em></div></li>
<li><div style="text-align: center;">Write Down Questions You Have in Your Journals</div></li>
<li><div style="text-align: center;">Be Prepared to Make Journal Entries Each Day</div></li>
<li><div style="text-align: center;">Be Ready for Quizes over the Reading</div></li>
<li><div style="text-align: center;">Don't Come to Class Without Your Book</div></li>
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