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Forum I: Hello
Let's
identify who we are, what we like and do,
and what we want to accomplish in discussion forums
in Arts & Ideas.
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II: My Iliad (Homeric Circumstances)
Identify one specific Iliad
passage which will help fellow students appreciate a particular
Greek activity. Identify the Fagles page,
Iliad Book and lines.
Then explain in one paragraph why the passage attracted you and could
attract your companions. Your classmates will then build on your
perceptions.
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III: Iliad Highlights: Actions Worthy of Fame
Identify one specific scene where characters consider actions worthy of
fame.
Forum IV: Crucial Encounters
Andromache meets Hector
Iliad VI, 439ff (Fagles,
p 208)
Glaucus Joins Sarpedon
Iliad XII,
ll 337ff (Fagles, p 334)
Hector
Faces Achilles
Iliad XXII, ll 293ff (Fagles, p 549)
Priam
faces Achilles
XXIV, ll 540ff (Fagles, p 603)
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V: Greek Recognitions (Tragic Insight)
Aeschylus'
Agamemnon exposes audiences to characters who come to recognize they no
longer inhabit a familiar world. That experience of dissonance in
Agamemnon is the central action of this tragedy. Other characters,
including Cassandra, Clytaemnestra and the Chorus also
undergo recognitions. Show how recognition works in one scene of your
choice from the Agamemnon.
Help us to see through Greek eyes, those of Agamemnon, of Cassandra, of
Clytaemnestra or a member of the chorus.
Forum VI: Symposium Lovers
Characters
in Plato's Symposium
share their interests in love. Show how one specific character of your
choice comes to view love, and how his or her view is more or less
suited to the speaker's age, occupations, personality and
interests. Then consider how Socrates' approach to love might refine the
intitial view of that speaker.
Forum VII: Troilus & Criseyde (Falling in Love)
Troilus and Criseyde both begin as opponents of love. Select a
particular moment and passage which shows how they become proponents of
love.
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VIII: Machiavelli (Stories of Should and Is)
Machiavelli distinguishes stories of is from stories of should.
Demonstrate the difference between these forms of story-telling by
showing how Machiavelli understands the development of one specific
historical event.
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IX: Othello
Iago
appears in Othello as a Satanic influence destroying
Othello and Desdemona, reducing love and harmony
to hate and dissonance. But he also appears as a subtle Venetian,
respected as a shrewd judge of character and situation. Show how an
understanding of Machiavelli can help a reader to appreciate Iago’s
understanding of a particular scene in Othello, and his ability
to shape the thoughts and actions of characters involved.
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