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Making Pastoral Myth

[2] Vocabulary Building: Latin & Greek Elements in English
Future elective: environment

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jvsickle
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cuny.edu
Help for Writing : Help for Reading
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Contexts for Epic & Contrary Voices
Sappho, Catullus, Homer, Virgil click here.
For a brief TIME CHART click here.
Epic in democratic Athens [sixth through fourth centuries] 
Plato's portrait of a professional reciter of epos[links ]
Epic counterpoint & key: Critique of Athens
Lysistrata (satiric critique: comic vision) click here
Plato's Apology of Socrates (philosophical-satiric critique: tragic vision)) , click here.
To Censor Epic & Cure Democracy's Ills:
Plato's New Model Culture, theRepublic, for a guide, click here.

Root Models: Powers & Flaws of Heroics
Homer's Plots & Themes: some sample outlines
Iliad scroll 1
scroll 3 & 6
scroll 9, 16, 18
scroll 18 & shield
scroll 22, 24
Odyssey scroll 1 & 6
scroll 9, 10, 11, 12
scroll 19, 21, 24

Epic Renewed for Rome's New Empire
Virgil Reweaves Homeric Threads
Prophetic Vision of New Order & Origin in bucolic, georgic, & heroic epos.
The Scroll of Bucolics (bucolic epos, pastoral)
The Aeneid (heroic epos)
scroll 1
scroll 2
scroll 4
scroll 6
scroll 8
scroll 12
 To see some further studies of Virgil click here .
Aroma of Peace (epic parodied & reduced) Satyricon by Petronius, click here.

Protocol for Reading: questions to ask on approaching texts & reporting what you find.

TIME CHART:click here for a developed chart, to be filled by further reading.

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