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| study guide [Prof Dunkle] |
| Making Pastoral Myth
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Vocabulary Building:
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| environment |
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e-mail: jvsickle @brooklyn. cuny.edu |
TIME CHART: for a simple model covering this first unit, click here.
[the chart must be expanded & filled out as you read further: for a fuller version, click here ]
| First samples of classical culture: [ Sappho ] >< [ Catullus ]><[ Shield of Achilles ] Homer, Iliad: the shield's thematic divisions charted |
| Homer. Odyssey 9.82-148: "Lotus Eaters & Cyclopes" [Features of Greek (Hellenic) culture imagined as lacking in its Cultural Opposites.] |
| Virgil
Aeneid 1.572-677:
Aeneas secretly observes the founding of Carthage
[Rome's culture like yet unlike Greek: infer features from an imagined visit by the mythical ancestor of the Romans to the site of Rome's greatest historical enemy.] |
| [herodotus to come] |
| Aeschylus Prometheus: unsorted links. |
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