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"The
test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas
in mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function." (F.
Scott Fitzgerald)
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European Humanities
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EH 31
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Spragins
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Fall
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Carey
Hall Room 318
Office Hours: 2:15-3:30 p.m. (daily)
jspragins@gilman.edu
(410) 828-5212
4th Period Classes: Days 1,4,10
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Nike
Adjusting Her Sandal 410
BC,
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Fall
Outline:
Course
Description
Orientation
Texts for 2008-09
The Greeks
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God Speaks to Job from the
Whirlwind (William Blake)
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Hellenism, Judaism, Christianity and the Roman
World
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The
Rose Window at Notre Dame Cathedral
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Medieval England
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Cowper
Madonna
c.1505 (Raphael)
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The Renaissance
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Juan
de Pareja
1650 (Velazquez)
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The Seventeenth Century
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Voltaire,
1778
(Houdon)
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The Enlightenment
Mid-Year Exam
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Bright newborn stars shape a nebula -- a glowing cloud of dust and gas --
through their luminous energy, while the nebula keeps the energy from
dissipating into the galaxy. Hubble
Space Telescope
The Big Bang!
Earth Rise
Geological Time
Buddhist
Vajrasattva, Mandala
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Course Orientation:
Homework:
Summer Reading
Speeches
Acceptable Use Policy Forms (AUP's)
Summer
Reading Requirement
Summer
Reading List 2007
Elizabeth
Woolsey Gilman Prize
Portrait of Self as a
Writer (Semester Goals)
Due Monday at 3:30 p.m.
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George Orwell
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Grammar:
Diagnostic Test
Gilman School Computer Network Resources:
Summer Reading
Speeches (Begin)
Summer
Reading Pledge Sheet
Summer Reading
Table
Homework:
4th Period: Work on Portrait or Summer Reading Speech
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The European World According to Herodotus (500 BC)
Mediterranean Colonies
Archaic Greece
Blank Map of Greece
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Finish Grammar Diagnostic Test
Summer Reading
Speeches (Continue)
Summer Reading
Pledge Sheet
Summer Reading
Table
Speech
Evaluation Form
Portrait of Self as a
Writer (Final Draft Due Monday)
Essay Process
Sophie's World "The Garden of Eden"; "The
Top Hat" (pp. 1-20)
The Greeks: Backgrounds
Geography
Project: The Ancient World
Use these maps to get ready for a geography quiz.
Ancient World Maps
for Students (UNC)
Ancient World
Maps (OSHA)
Ancient Greece
PDF Maps:
Map of Europe
Map of Mediterranean Basin
(terrain)
Map of Greece (terrain)
Map of Greece (place
names)
Homework:
Finish
Portrait of Self as a Writer
Read Gaarder, Sophie's World, pp. 21-27 "The Myths"
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Geologic Time
Stag from the
Lascaux
Cave, France
Venus of
Willendorf
c.
24,000-22,000 BC
(Naturhistorisches
Museum, Vienna)
The Great
Pyramid of Khufu
2530 BC Khafre's Pyramid c. 2500 BC The Pyramid of Menkure c. 2460 BC
"Hieroglyphics."
Ca. 300 B.C. London, British Museum.
Tutankahaman
Color Me!
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Due
at 3:30 p.m.: Portrait of Self
as a Writer
Summer Reading
Speeches (Continue)
Summer
Reading Pledge Sheet
Summer Reading
Table
Speech
Evaluation Form
The Greeks (Backgrounds):
Sophie's World, pp. 21-27 "The Myths"
Sophie's Questions
The Myths
Powerpoint Projects: Western Ancient
History in Twenty Minutes: The Age of Mythology:
Man in the State of Nature: “The Dawn of Man”: Part One
; Part Two
from 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
dir. Stanley Kubrick
Powerpoint:
Pre-History,
Mesopotamia, Egypt
Backgrounds: Historical
Period Table
Homework:
Powerpoint
Projects:
Western
Ancient History in Twenty Minutes: The Age of Mythology
Directions: In a two-three minute presentation summarize the information on
your topic and identify its key idea, or tell the story of your myth in an
imaginative way.
Powerpoint Guidelines (The
Siliciano Rules)
MLA Form (Purdue)
Assignment Table 2007
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Parents
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Minoan Snake Goddess
from Knossos, Crete
c. 1600 BCE
Death Mask of Agamemnon
10 1/8 inch beaten gold
1550 BC
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Summer Reading
Speeches (Continue)
Summer Reading
Table
Western Ancient
History in Twenty Minutes: The Age of Mythology
Powerpoint:
Crete, Mycenae, Greece
The Greeks: Backgrounds: Historical
Period Table
Iliad Outline
Powerpoint Guidelines (The
Siliciano Rules)
Assignment Table 2007
Homework:
4th Period:
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The Sirens
Homeric Geography
Color a Greek Amphora! (online)
Krater, second half of 8th
century B.C.; Geometric Greek, Attic
Leda and the Swan Illustration of Malibu 86.AE.680
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Powerpoint: Crete, Mycenae,
Greece
Student Presentations:
Western Ancient
History in Twenty Minutes: The Age of Mythology
Powerpoint Guidelines (The
Siliciano Rules)
Assignment Table 2007
Homer:
Essay
Contrasting Achilles and Odysseus
(Due Wednesday at 3:30 p.m.)
Essay Process
Resources:
Homework:
Online: Multimedia:
Homer,
The
Iliad: The Rage of Achilles (Mosaic)
The Illiad: Achilles and Agamemnon Argue (Mosaic)Images of the Trojan
War in Art (Temple U.)
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1826: Zeus giving birth to Athena. Statue by
Rudolph Tegner
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Achilles is about to kill Penthesileia, the
Amazon Queen at Troy: Large
Athenian amphora,c.540 BC, found at Vulci in Etruria.
Athena Warns Achilles (Reubens)
Medusa
Color Me
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Student Presentations:
Western Ancient
History in Twenty Minutes: The Age of Mythology
Powerpoint Guidelines (The
Siliciano Rules)
Assignment Table 2007
Essay Contrasting
Achilles and Odysseus:
Homer,
The Iliad, episode One: "The Quarrel by the Ships"
Paragraph on Achilles as Hero
Listen to The Iliad
in ancient Greek...
Images from the
Trojan War in Greek Art (Temple U.)
Homework:
Read Homer, The Odyssey, Book Nine: "Ismarus, the Lotus Eaters,
and the Cyclops"; also read the short excerpt from Book 12: Hades
when "Odysseus Meets
Achilles"
Maps: Odysseus'
Journey Home or Odyssey
Map or Odysseus' Voyage
Home.
Cyclops Handout
Cyclops Lecture Notes
Maps: Odysseus'
Journey Home or Odyssey
Map
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Polyphemus, Tischbein (1751-1829)
Statue of Odysseus and Polyphemus in the Sperlanga
Museum
Odysseus and his men blinding Polyphemus
(detail of a proto-attic amphora, c. 650 BC, museum of Eleusis)
Odysseus's
Escape
Odysseus Defying the Cyclops, drawing
Shutzenburger (1894)
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Student Presentations:
Western Ancient
History in Twenty Minutes: The Age of Mythology: Assignment Table 2007
Homer, The Odyssey, Book Nine: "Ismarus, the Lotus Eaters, and
the Cyclops" also read the short excerpt from Book 12: Hades when
"Odysseus Meets
Achilles"
Cyclops Handout
Cyclops
Lecture Notes
Maps: Odysseus'
Journey Home or Odyssey
Map.
Collaborative
Planning:
Essay Contrasting
Achilles and Odysseus
Homework:
Essay Contrasting Achilles
and Odysseus
(Due Wednesday at 3:30 p.m.)
For Further Reading:
Images from the
Trojan War in Greek Art (Temple U.)
The Fall
of Troy
The Trojan War
in Art through the Ages
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Head of Odysseus (marble, ca. A.D. 50, from
the "Cave of Tiberius" at Sperlonga).
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Collaborative
Planning:
Essay Contrasting
Achilles and Odysseus
Cyclops Handout
Homework:
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Map of the Eastern Mediterranean
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(Due Essay
Contrasting Achilles and Odysseus Wednesday at 3:30 p.m.)
Introduce: Internet
Research Project
Homework:
Read:
"The Greek Miracle"
(Hamilton vs. Kelley)
For Further Study:
Read
Timeline The Greeks:
Crucible of Civilization (PBS)
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Greek and Phoenician Trade Routes
The Nile
Boeotia: Mt. Helikon from Osios Loukas
The Persian Empire at its Height
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Discuss: "The Greek
Miracle" (Hamilton vs. Kelley)
Map
of the Persian Empire at its Height
Choose Research Project: Internet
Research Project: Assignment
Table 2007
Begin Research
Dr. J.’s Timeline
of Classical Greece
Ancient Greece
Homework:
The Emergence of Athens:
Notes on Herodotus: The Persian Wars
Herodotus,
History: Xerxes at the
Hellespont (Book 7); Leonidas
and the 300 at Thermopylae (Mosaic)
Check out the Maps:
The
Persian Empire at its Height (Map)
Battle of Marathon (Map)
Battle of Thermopylae (Another Map)
Battle
of Salamis (Map)
For further reading:
Dr.
J's Illustrated Persian War Site
4th Period: Music History
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The Persian Empire at its Height
Map of the Battle of Thermopylae
The reconstructed trireme Olympias at sea. It was
launched with due ceremony on 27 June 1987.
Painted kylix, showing a trireme. 490 B.C. (London: British Museum)
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Western
Ancient History in Twenty Minutes: The Age of Mythology: Assignment Table 2007
Essay: The Greek Ideal
(Due Wednesday, October 17th)
Greek Ideal Questions on Homer and
Herodotus
Periclean
Internet Research Project: Assignment
Table 2007
Leonidas, Themistocles and The Persian Wars (490-479 BC)
Historiē: “research” or “inquiry, to Herodotus’
audience the term would have had a vaguely clinical air, coming, as it did,
from the vocabulary of the newborn field of natural science. (However, the student of history must always remain skeptical
about the veracity of the story being presented. He or she must be aware
that historians use facts to manipulate the reader into supporting an
interpretation. Inevitably, they will emphasize some facts over others in
order to make their narrative more compelling.)
Homework:
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Read: Gaarder, Sophie's World, pp. 28-55: The Natural
Philosophers; Democritus; Fate
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Thales of Miletus (624-547 BC)
Anaximander, detail from Raphael, The School of
Athens (1510)
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Periclean
Internet Research Project: Assignment
Table 2007 (Due Thursday, October 18th) Essay Workshop: The Greek Ideal
Introduction to the Natural
Philosophers: Sophie's World, pp.28-55 (Answers)
- physis vs.
nomos
- philosophy: Greek word,
from phileîn, “to love,” and sophía, “wisdom,”
- cosmology: study of the
origin and nature of the physical universe and scientific hypotheses
as to its structure. Before, thinkers had constructed myths of the
gods to explain all natural phenomena.
- metaphysics: study of the
nature of reality, including the relationship between mind and matter,
substance and attribute, fact and value.
- axiom: a sentence or
proposition that is not proved or demonstrated and is considered as self-evident
or as an initial necessary consensus for theory
building. Therefore, it is taken for granted as true, and serves as a
starting point for deducing other truths.
Powerpoint Presentations:
Homework:
For further
reading:
Timeline of Ancient
Philosophy
Socrates Speaks!
Brief
Biography of Socrates
Metaphysics today? Particle
Theory/ String
Theory
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Pythagoras from Raphael, The School of
Athens (1510)
Hendrik ter Brugghen Heraclitus and
Democritus (1628)
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Periclean
Internet Research Project: Assignment
Table 2007 (Due Thursday, October 18th) Essay Workshop: The Greek Ideal
Essay Workshop: The Natural
Philosophers
Powerpoint
Presentations:
Homework:
Read: Gaarder, Sophie's World, pp. 56-77: Socrates, Athens
Athens Internet Tour: The Ancient City of Athens
[At Indiana] A photographic archive of the archaeological and architectural
remains of ancient Athens.
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David, Jacques-Louis
The Death of Socrates
1787
Socrates speaking with Alcibiades, a detail
of The School of Athens, a fresco by Raphael.
(Wikipedia)
Bust of Socrates (Roman Copy of Lyssipos)
View of the Acropolis and
the South Slope from the southwest (from near the Philopappos Monument).
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Periclean
Internet Research Project: Assignment
Table 2007 (Due Thursday, October 18th) Essay Workshop: The Greek Ideal
Powerpoint Presentations:
The Athenian Golden Age: Discussion of Plato's Apology; Socrates Study
Guide (Quiz)
Homework:
Thucydides Pericles’ Funeral Oration
Backgrounds: The
Peloponnesian Wars
; Dr.
J’s Illustrated Funeral Oration
For further reading:
Lincoln's
Gettysburg Address and John
F. Kennedy's Inaugural Address
Plutarch’s Life
of Pericles
Sophists: Philosophical
Backgrounds of the 5th Century BC
Rhetorical
Forms
4th Period:
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Marble Bust of Pericles British Museum
Athens and Sparta
The names of the 58,209 American
soldiers either killed or missing in action during the Vietnam War. As a
memorial at Arlington reads: "All gave some . . . some gave all."
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Periclean
Internet Research Project: Assignment
Table 2007 (Due Thursday, October 18th) Essay Workshop: The Greek Ideal
Backgrounds: The
Peloponnesian Wars
Discuss Athenian Democracy as reflected in Pericles' speech:
Thucydides Pericles’ Funeral Oration
- Apology
for inadequacy of words
- Honor to Ancestors
- Thesis
- The Characteristics
of Democratic Society
- The Characteristics
of the Citizen
in a Democracy
- The Advantages of a
Democracy in War: Citizen
Soldiers
- Honor to the Fallen
- Love
of Country: The Obligation of the Living to the Dead
Homework:
For further reading:
Two Faces of Greece:
Athens and Sparta (PBS)
Plutarch’s
Life of Lycurgus
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Thermopylae
Monument
Peloponnesian Wars
Bust of a
Spartan Warrior: "Our friend brings us good news. If the
Persians darken the sun with their arrows, we will be able to fight in the
shade." (Dieneces)
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Periclean
Internet Research Project: Assignment
Table 2007 (Due Thursday, October 18th) Essay Workshop: The Greek Ideal
Writewell Report on Homer Essays.
Powerpoint Presentation:
Sparta:
Homework:
Darker Aspects of The Athenian Golden Age:
Thucydides, The
Melian Dialogue; Documents
on Greek Slavery; The
Lot of Hellenic Women
Map of
Greece and Western Asia Minor
For further reading:
Melos Role
Playing Site
Was Athens really a democracy?
The Democratic Aristocracy of Athens (Georg
Busolt)
Was
Athens in the Age of Pericles Aristocratic? (Van Hook)
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View of the Acropolis
and the South Slope from the southwest (from near the Philopappos
Monument).
(Ancient City of Athens)
The Athenian Empire (450 BCE)
An Athenian Slave Helps an Athlete Prepare to
Compete 510-500 B.C.
Spartan Girl Running Footrace
Venus
de Milo 130 BC
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Periclean
Internet Research Project: Assignment
Table 2007 (Due Thursday, October 18th) Essay Workshop: The Greek Ideal
Powerpoint Presentations:
Darker Aspects of The Athenian Golden Age:
Problems
with Greek Democracy:
- Can democracy
compete with authoritarian enemies? (Athens v. Sparta)
- Can citizens meet
their responsibilities? (voting, community service, military service)
- Will the leaders
of a democracy be corrupted by moral relativism and power?
(Alcibiades' imperialism, Aristotle's justification of economic
exploitation; the us vs. them syndrome)
Homework:
Read Plato: The Allegory of the Cave; Notes; Student Cave Drawings
Read Gaarder, Sophie's World, pp.78-120 "Plato";
"The Major's Cabin"; "Aristotle" OR Read Sophie on Plato and
Aristotle (my condensation of the same)
For further reading
Plato:
excerpts from The Republic: Notes
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Plato - (ca. 427-347 B.C.)
Aristotle (384-322 BC)
Plato
(left) and Aristotle (right), a detail of The School of Athens, a fresco by Raphael.
(Wikipedia)
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Periclean
Internet Research Project: Assignment
Table 2007 (Due Thursday, October 18th) Essay Workshop: The Greek Ideal
Powerpoint
Presentations:
Socrates'
Students:
Plato:
Homework:
Backgrounds
to Greek Tragedy:
Review: Bullfinch's Mythology: Dionysus (Bacchus), Cadmus and Europa; The Sphinx
For further reading:
From
Ovid, Metamorphoses, Books 3 and 4
The House of Cadmus:
Europa, Acteon, Semele, Tiresias, Narcissus and
Echo, Pentheus,
Athamas and Ino
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Temple
of Hera at Paestum (550 BC)
Temple
of Athena at Paestum (500 BC)
The Parthenon,
(Ancient City of Athens)
Sculpture from the Parthenon's
West Pediment
The Parthenon
477-438 BC The
Fibonacci Sequence
Sculpture from the Parthenon
Frieze
The Parthenon embodies the supreme ideal of
the Greeks: that there was harmony and order in the universe that was
discernible to the human intellect.
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Periclean
Internet Research Project: Assignment
Table 2007 (Due Thursday, October 18th) Essay Workshop: The Greek Ideal
Review: Plato and
Aristotle (Topic Sentence) Quotes? Use: Sophie on Plato and
Aristotle
Philosophy Review: Raphael's The School
of Athens (Interactive)
Presentations:
Backgrounds to Greek Tragedy:
Dionysus and the Origins of Tragedy: (Crete, Mycenae, Greece Powerpoint)
Homework:
For
further reading:
4th Period: Greek Sculpture
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Kouros
(youth), ca. 590–580 BC Polykleitos, Doryphoros 450-440
B.C.
Dying Gaul 240-200 BC
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Dionysian Revels
Khnopff The Caress 1896
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Periclean
Internet Research Project: Assignment
Table 2007 (Due Thursday, October 18th) Essay Workshop: The Greek Ideal
The Theme of Tragedy: The Mystery of Human Suffering
The Origins
of Tragedy:
Homework:
Read:
Sophocles Oedipus
Rex: Prologue
and Parados
(Study Guide)
For Further Study:
The Theatre at Epidauros from Skenotheke
(Images of the Ancient Stage)
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Greek and Phoenician Trade Routes
Actor Holding Mask
Orchestra, Theatre of Dionysus Athens
"Then once more I must bring what is
dark to light." Oedipus Rex Prologue
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Periclean
Internet Research Project: Assignment
Table 2007 (Due Thursday, October 18th) Essay Workshop: The Greek Ideal
- How did Sophocles
question the foundation of the Greek ideal in his tragedy Oedipus
Rex?
- What ancient
understanding of our place in the natural world resurfaces in the
ritual of tragedy?
- How might Socrates
have responded to Sophocles' tragic vision in Oedipus Rex? (No
doubt, he saw the play.)
Powerpoint Presentation:
Sophocles, Oedipus
Rex (Discussion) Prologue
and Parados
(Study Guide) (Quiz)
Homework:
Read: Sophocles Oedipus Rex: Scene
1 and Ode
1; Study Guide: Scene 1/
Ode 1
(Discussion outline)
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(Images of the Ancient Stage)
"You yourself are the pollution of this
country." (Scene 1)
 A
Tragedian's Mask Ancient
Theatre Interactive Mask
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Periclean
Internet Research Project: Assignment
Table 2007 (Due Thursday, October 18th) Essay Workshop: The Greek Ideal
- How did Sophocles question the foundation of the Greek ideal in his
tragedy Oedipus Rex?
-What ancient understanding of our place in the natural world resurfaces in
the ritual of tragedy?
- How might Socrates have responded to Sophocles' tragic vision in Oedipus
Rex? (No doubt, he saw the play.)
Sophocles, Oedipus
Rex (Discussion
outline) Scene
1 and Ode
1 (Study Guide) (Quiz)
Irony: Dramatic
Irony, Perepetea, Catharsis
The
Soothsayer's Prophecy
Homework:
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"Then once more I must bring what is dark to light." Oedipus
Rex Prologue
"You yourself are the pollution of this
country." (Scene
1)
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"How strange a shadowy memory crossed my
mind,
Just now while you were speaking; it chilled my heart." (Scene 2)
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Periclean
Internet Research Project: Assignment
Table 2007 (Due Thursday, October 18th) Essay Workshop: The Greek Ideal
Oedipus Rex: (Discussion
outline 2) Scene
2 and Ode
2; Study Guide: Scene 2/
Ode 2
Homework:
Read:
Sophocles Oedipus Rex: Scene
3 ; Ode
3; Scene
4; Ode
4 Study Guide: Scene 3/ Ode
3; Scene 4/ Ode 4
4th Period: Music History: The
Elements of Music:
- Rhythm:
Sonic action in time. Or, the arrangement of durational sonic patterns
or tone lengths that fall on or between a "beat".
- Meter:
The basic scheme of note values and accents which remains unaltered
throughout a composition or a section of a composition which serves as
a basic skeleton for rhythm and represented in notation as a fraction:
4/4, 3/4, et al.
- Tempo:
The rate of speed of a composition or a section of a composition which
is measured by the number of beats-per-minute. Metronome markings are
used to indicate tempo; e. g. 60 beats-per-minute is "slow"
while 120 beats-per- minute is "fast".
Exercise: Rhythm:
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"Polybos was not your father." Oedipus
Rex iii
"Ah God! It was true! All true!" Oedipus
Rex, scene iv
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Periclean
Internet Research Project: Assignment
Table 2007 (Due Thursday, October 18th) Essay Workshop: The Greek Ideal
Oedipus Rex: Scene
3 and Ode
3; Scene 3/ Ode 3: The
Messenger from Corinth
Oedipus Rex: Scene
4 and Ode
4; (Study Guide):
Recognition: The Shepherd at the Mystery's Center
Homework:
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Day 9
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Thurs.
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"terracotta mask of Dionysus"
Greek, Myrina; second century BCE Paris, Louvre Museum.
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Periclean
Internet Research Project: Assignment
Table 2007 (Due Thursday, October 18th.) Essay Workshop: The Greek Ideal
-How
did Sophocles question the foundation of the Greek ideal in his tragedy Oedipus
Rex?
-What ancient understanding of our place in the natural world resurfaces in
the ritual of tragedy?
- How might Socrates have responded to Sophocles' tragic vision in Oedipus
Rex? (No doubt, he saw the play.)
Oedipus Rex: Scene
3 and Ode
3; Scene 3/ Ode 3: The
Messenger from Corinth
Oedipus Rex: Scene
4 and Ode
4; (Study Guide):
Recognition: The Shepherd at the Mystery's Center
Oedipus Rex: Exodos
(Study Guide): Catharsis
Homework
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"God. God. Is there a sorrow
greater!" Oedipus Rex, exodos
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Periclean
Internet Research Project: Assignment
Table 2007 (Due Thursday, October 18th.) Essay Workshop: The Greek Ideal
Oedipus Rex: Exodos
(Study Guide): Catharsis
Aristotle's Definition of Tragedy: :
- tragos: "goatsong"
- choral odes: dithyrambs
- "Tragedy, then,
is an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a
certain magnitude; ... in the form of action, not of narrative;
through pity and fear effecting the proper purgation of these
emotions."
- Action
(plot) is not merely the sequence of events but "a movement of
the spirit through a community."
- The building blocks
of tragedy: dramatic irony and perepeteia
lead to catharsis
Homework:
The Greek Ideal
Essay due Thursday at 3:30 p.m
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Diogenes the Cynic (Detail from Raphael's School of Athens)
Diogenes and Alexander the
Great
Harvard 1972.39
hoplitodromos
at left
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Periclean
Internet Research Project: Assignment
Table 2007 (Due Thursday, October 18th.) Essay Workshop: The Greek Ideal
Spot Passage Quiz
on Sophocles
Presentation:
Workshop on The Greek Ideal Essay
Homework:
The Greek Ideal:
Essay due Thursday at 3:30 p.m.
For further reading:
Mosaic
Sources on Alexander the Great
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The Regions Conquered by Alexander (Mosaic
Sources on Alexander the Great)
 (Alexander Mosaic from Pompeii, from
a 3rd
century BC original Greek painting, now lost)
Augustus as general, from Primaporta, Italy, ca. 20 B.C. Marble, 6' 8"
high. Vatican Museums, Rome
Map of the Roman Empire 12 AD
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The Greek Ideal
Essay due at 3:30 p.m.
Presentation:
Roman World Project;
Assignment Table
Roman World Paragraph Test
Roman Art (Powerpoint)
Homework:
Read
Sophie's World, "Hellenism", pp.121-39
Roman
World Project:
Judaism:
Directions:
- Carefully read your
texts.
- While reading, think
about how you will answer the study questions.
- Write answers to the
questions in sentences.
- Report to the class
about the main ideas of the reading. (Don’t just tell the story;
explain its significance.)
- Be ready to lead the
class in a discussion of the review questions at the end of your
section.
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The View from atop Mt. Sinai
God Speaks to Job from the Whirlwind (William
Blake)
 The Western Wall of the Temple Mount in Jerusalem
The Holy Land
Jerusalem
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Roman
World Project
Roman World Notes; Assignment Table
Roman World Paragraph Test
Roman Art (Powerpoint)
Sophie on Hellenism
Judaism:
- How does the
ambiguity of the ancient Hebrew myths (like The Garden of Eden, The
Flood, and Job teach us about the nature of the covenant between God
and his chosen people?
- Describe the path
to the truth that must be followed according to ancient Hebrew
thought.
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Read
Sophie's World, "The Postcards" and "Two
Cultures" (pp. 140-164)
Roman World Project
Christianity:
3. How does the teaching of Jesus integrate ancient Greek and ancient
Hebrew thought?
4. What methods did the early church fathers (Peter, Paul and Augustine)
use to successfully spread Christianity?
5. How did St. Augustine solve the theological problem of evil?.
For further reading: Mike
S. Presentation on Job (10/01/03)
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4th Period: Music History: The Elements of Music Melody and Harmony
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The Pont du Gard, a Roman Aqueduct
Map of the Roman Empire 12 AD
Paul
Bigot's Model of Ancient Rome
The Coliseum in Rome
Augustus as general, from Primaporta, Italy,
ca. 20 B.C. Marble, 6' 8" high. Vatican Museums, Rome
Map of the Roman Empire 12 AD
Roman Gladiator Color Me
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Roman
World Project
Roman World Notes; Assignment Table
Roman World Paragraph Test
Christianity:
- How does the
teaching of Jesus integrate ancient Greek and ancient Hebrew thought?
- What methods did the
early church fathers (Peter, Paul and Augustine) use to successfully
spread Christianity?
- How did St.
Augustine solve the theological problem of evil?.
Homework:
Roman Thought:
Roman
World Project
Livy, The History of
Rome from its Foundation
Cicero, On the Laws
Lucretius, On
the Nature of Things
Marcus Aurelius, Thoughts
Tacitus, Germania
- What do the ancient
founding myths of Rome (Romulus and Remus, The Rape of the Sabine
Women, The Suicide of Lucretia, The Execution of Titus Manlius) teach
us about Roman character and values?
- How did Marcus
Aurelius' personal philosophy combine elements of Stoicism,
Epicureanism and Materialism?
- How did Lucretius
teach us to overcome our fear of death and to lead our lives?
- How did Marcus
Aurelius' personal philosophy combine elements of Stoicism,
Epicureanism and Materialism?
- What vision of the
barbarian 'other' did Tacitus create?
4th Period: Music History: The Elements of Music: Instrumentation and Timbre
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The interior of the Pantheon in Rome
"Consul
Titus Manlius Torquatus Beheading His Son" by Ferdinand Bol (1661)
Paul
Bigot's Model of Ancient Rome
Arch of Titus 81 AD
The Pantheon in Rome
Equestrian Statue Marcus Aurelius 161-180 AD
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Roman
World Project
Roman World Notes; Assignment Table
Roman World Paragraph Test
Sophie on Hellenism
Livy, The History of
Rome from its Foundation (Study Questions)
Cicero, On the Laws (Study Questions)
Lucretius, On
the Nature of Things (Study Questions)
Marcus Aurelius, Thoughts
(Study Questions)
Tacitus, Germania
- What do the ancient
founding myths of Rome (Romulus and Remus, The Rape of the Sabine
Women, The Suicide of Lucretia, The Execution of Titus Manlius) teach
us about Roman character and values?
- How did Cicero
define the law for the Roman Empire?
- How did Lucretius
teach us to overcome our fear of death and to lead our lives?
- How did Marcus
Aurelius' personal philosophy combine elements of Stoicism,
Epicureanism and Materialism?
- What vision of the
barbarian 'other' did Tacitus create?
Homework:
Virgil Aeneid:
excerpts (19
BC)
Extra Credit: How does Virgil's revision of Homer teach us about the
central values of Roman culture?
For Extra reading:
Dido and Aeneas (Images)
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 Barocci, Flight from Troy
 Peter
Paul Reubens The Death of Dido (Louvre, 1635).
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Roman
World Project
Roman World Notes; Assignment Table
Roman World Paragraph Test
Virgil Aeneid,
excerpts
Roman Empire Expansion
Trade
in the Roman Empire
Roman
Frontier
Barbarian
Migrations in Late Antiquity
The Aeneid in
the Arts (St.
Paul's School)
Extra Credit: How does Virgil's revision of Homer teach us about the
central values of Roman culture?
Homework:
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Europe in 768 AD
Blank Europe Map
Blank Europe Map
Europe 2004
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Roman
World Project
Roman World Notes; Assignment Table
Roman World Paragraph Test
Homework:
European Map Exercise
Maps of Europe:
Europe Regions
(pdf)
World Atlas
Maps (Rivers, Capitols, Regions, etc.)
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Wed.
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Indo-European
Groups
Map of Anglo-Saxon England 800 AD
Purse from Sutton Hoo Burial Site 630 AD
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European Map Exercise
The Story of English Internet Hunt
Homework:
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Thurs.
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Illuminated Bible of St. Jerome 698 AD
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The Story of English Internet Hunt
Homework:
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1st
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The Cross of Murdoch 923 AD
Germanic Picture Stone
Beowulf by Gareth
Hinds (thecomic.com)
Syd Allan's Jagular-Beowulf
Dragon from Aratus
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The Story of English
Internet Hunt
Homework:
Reading Beowulf excerpts (trans Seamus Heaney)
Outline of
Beowulf Story (Beowulftranslations.net)
Multimedia:
Sound Files:
Opening
of the Poem - lines 1-52
Sea Journey - lines 194-22
Grendel's
Approach; the Fight with Beowulf - lines
688-789
Old English:
Prologue (Old English)
Grendel's Approach (Old
English)
J.R.R. Tolkein on Beowulf, "The Monsters and the Critics" (1936)
Beowulf in Cyberspace (With Dual
Translation and many graphics... very cool!)
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Half Day/Professional Day
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Anglo-Saxon Invasions (5th and 6th c AD)
Viking Invasions (8th c. AD)
Viking Conquests
The Hall of Heorot
Sutton
Hoo Gold Buckle
Purse from Sutton
Hoo Burial Site 630 AD
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Presentation:
Tacitus: Germania:
What vision of the barbarian 'other' did Tacitus create? (Assignment Table)
Beowulf excerpts (trans Seamus Heaney)
Beowulf Lecture
Notes
Beowulf Online Resources:
Homework:
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AIMS Day
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Chaucer Woodcut
The Medieval Social Hierarchy
The Geocentric Universe
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The Renaissance:
Tacitus: Germania:
What vision of the barbarian 'other' did Tacitus create? (Assignment Table)
Story of English Presentation: Middle English
Sophie on "The Middle
Ages" (pp.165-187)
St. Augustine on the
Problem of Evil
Introduction to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Chaucer and the Medieval World View
Homework:
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Chaucer Woodcut
Notre Dame de Paris
Notre Dame Gargolyle
The Geocentric Universe (animation)
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Read Beowulf Creative Assignments aloud.
St. Augustine on the
Problem of Evil
The Renaissance:
Introduction to Chaucer's Canterbury Tales
Chaucer and the Medieval World View
Introduce Pilgrim Project
Homework:
Memorize
the Proem (lines 1-18) from
General Prologue:
Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (1397) (Towson University) (Off-line Text) (Another website)
(User Friendly Text
Adobe PDF)
(Dual
Text: Middle English/Modern)
(Interlinear
Translation: Middle English/Modern)
Proem read aloud:
(lines 1-14; lines 15-29)
Proem Notes
4th Period: Presentation on Medieval
Music (Powerpoint)
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Thurs.
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The Cathedral at Sainte-Foy
 The Last Judgment at Sainte-Foy
 The Chain of Being (from Montclair State)
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St. Thomas Aquinas
The Medieval World View: Ulysses'
Speech on degree from Shakespeare's Trolius and Cressida
Proem Readings
Presentation on Romanesque
Architecture and Sculpture
Introduce Pilgrim Project
Homework:
Read
the General Prologue
Preparation for Presentations: Pilgrim Project;
Assignment Table
Choose a
character for your presentation!
Memorize the Proem (lines 1-18) from
General Prologue:
Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (1397) (Towson University) (Off-line Text) (Another website)
(User Friendly Text
Adobe PDF)
(Dual
Text: Middle English/Modern)
(Interlinear
Translation: Middle English/Modern)
Proem read aloud:
(lines 1-14; lines 15-29)
Proem Notes
4th Period: What you need to know from Medieval Music (Powerpoint)
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The Last Judgment at Sainte-Foy
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Quiz on Chaucer Backgrounds
Group Work on Student Presentations: Pilgrim Project;
Assignment Table
Homework:
Preparation for Presentations: Pilgrim Project
General
Prologue: Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (1397) (Towson University)
(Off-line Text) (Another website)
(User Friendly Text
Adobe PDF)
(Dual
Text: Middle English/Modern)
(Interlinear
Translation: Middle English/Modern)
Proem read aloud:
(lines 1-14; lines 15-29)
Proem Notes
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The Apostles at Chartres Cathedral
The Rose Window at Notre Dame
Notre Dame in Paris
Buddhist Mandala (Coloring)
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Continue Work on Student Presentations: Pilgrim Project;
Assignment Table
Presentation on Gothic
Architecture and Sculpture
Homework:
Preparation
for Presentations: Pilgrim Project
General
Prologue: Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (1397) (Towson University)
(Off-line Text) (Another website)
(User Friendly Text
Adobe PDF)
(Dual
Text: Middle English/Modern)
(Interlinear
Translation: Middle English/Modern)
Proem read aloud:
(lines 1-14; lines 15-29)
Proem Notes
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The Knight
The extent of
Christianity during the period of the Crusades.
Longbows at the Battle of Crecy (1356) in The
100 Years War
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Chaucer's General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales:
Student Presentations:
Homework:
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Sophie's World, "The Renaissance", pp. 188-215
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The Prioresse
The Friar
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Student Presentations: Group Two: Pilgrim Project;
Assignment Table
Spragins Notes Pilgrim Projects
Homework:
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Write
rough draft of paragraphs on Group Two
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The Merchant
The Wife of Bath
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Student
Presentations: Group Three: Pilgrim
Project Assignment Table
Spragins Notes Pilgrim Projects
Homework:
Write
rough draft of paragraphs on Group Three
General
Prologue: Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (1397) (Towson University)
(Off-line Text) (Another website)
(User Friendly Text
Adobe PDF)
(Dual
Text: Middle English/Modern)
(Interlinear
Translation: Middle English/Modern)
Proem read aloud:
(lines 1-14; lines 15-29)
Proem Notes
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The Parson
The Peasants' Revolt 1381
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Student
Presentations: Group Four: Pilgrim
Project Assignment Table
Spragins Notes Pilgrim Projects
Homework:
Write
rough draft of paragraphs on Group Four
General Prologue:
Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales (1397) (Towson University) (Off-line Text) (Another website)
(User Friendly Text
Adobe PDF)
(Dual
Text: Middle English/Modern)
(Interlinear
Translation: Middle English/Modern)
Proem read aloud:
(lines 1-14; lines 15-29)
Proem Notes
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The Miller
The Summoner
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Student Presentation: Group Five: Pilgrim Project Assignment Table
Spragins Notes Pilgrim Projects
Homework:
Write
rough draft of paragraphs on Group Five
For extra
reading:
"The Miller’s Tale"; Interlinear
Translation (offline)
The Miller's Tale (Class Notes)
Barrie Lecture Notes on
"The Miller's Tale"
McDaniel Lecture Notes on
"The Miller's Tale"
Harvard’s Chaucer
Site: “The
Miller’s Tale”
Homework:
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Draft of Chaucer Essay
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The Apostles at Chartres Cathedral
Rose Window at Chartres
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Chartres Cathedral: The Parthenon of "Humanism": Gothic
Architecture and Sculpture
Humanism:
- Humanism stressed
the dignity of humanity and shifted intellectual emphasis from
theology and logic to the study of human wisdom.
- studia humanitatis: the educational
disciplines outside of theology and natural science. Humanism was opposed
to the particular brand of logic known as Scholasticism, whose intent
was to reconcile the revealed truth of Christianity with Greek reason.
- The Curriculum: the trivium
(grammar, logic, rhetoric) and the quadrivium (geometry,
arithmetic, astronomy, music).
- Students had to
master both Latin and Greek to acquire a thorough grounding in the
works of Cicero, Plato, and Aristotle. (Cicero was considered the
model citizen: eloquent, wise and committed to the service of the
state. All students carefully studied his speeches and imitated his
style.)
Homework:
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Giotto di BONDONE The Mourning of Christ
c. 1305 Fresco Cappella
dell'Arena,Padua
Text
about "The Mourning of Christ" from E.H. Gombrich, "The
Story of Art"
Masaccio Trinity
1427-28 Fresco
Santa Maria Novella, Florence
Portrait of Machiavelli (1500)
Pico della Mirandola 1463-1494. By an unknown artist, in the Uffizi,
Florence.
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Sophie on the Renaissance, pp.
188-215
Pico de Mirandolla, Oration on the Dignity
of Man (1486)
Machiavelli, from The
Prince (1513), Intro, chapters 14-19, 26
Presentation on Early
Renaissance Art
Homework:
The
Reformation:
Map:
The Religious
Division of Europe
Martin Luther, Address
to the Christian Nobility of the German Nation
(1520)
For Further Reading:
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Raphael, The
small Cowper Madonna c. 1505 National Gallery of Art, Washington
Michelangelo David
DETAIL of head
c. 1501-1504
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Final Draft of Chaucer Essay due 12:00 p.m.
Sophie on the Renaissance, pp.
188-215
Pico de Mirandolla, Oration on the Dignity
of Man (1486)
Machiavelli, from The
Prince (1513), Intro, chapters 14-19, 26
Presentation on Early
Renaissance Art
High Renaissance Art and
Architecture
Homework:
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Homework: Happy Thanksgiving!
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The Ambassadors Hans Holbein (1534) (Explanation
of iconography at Oneonta)
Durer, "Self-Portrait" (1500)
 From "The Gutenburg
Bible." 1455. (Men at work at
a printing press (1559) )
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Sophie on the Renaissance, pp.
188-215
Pico de Mirandolla, Oration on the Dignity
of Man (1486)
Machiavelli, from The
Prince (1513), Intro, chapters 14-19, 26
High Renaissance Art and
Architecture
The Reformation:
Homework:
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From De insulis nuper in mari
Indicorepertis.
Woodcut 1494
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Catholic vs. Protestant Art
Why
Study Shakespeare?
Backgrounds Quiz
First Encounters in the New World
(Powerpoint)
Homework:
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6
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Tues.
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Spain's New World Empire, 1600
Explorations of the New World
The Western Hemisphere in 1546
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First Encounters in the New World
(Powerpoint)
Discussion of Morgan, "Dreams of
Liberation (notes)": Study Guide (Quiz)
Homework:
4th Period: Music History: Presentation on Renaissance Music
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Wed.
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Thanksgiving Break
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Thurs.
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Thanksgiving Break
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Thanksgiving Break
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Watercolor drawing "Indians Fishing" by John White (created
1585-1586)
White, Indian
in Body Paint (1585-86)
Debry "A
weroan or great Lorde of Virginia" (1590)
Debry's Map of Virginia (1580)
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Discussion:
“The Lost
Colony" (notes); Study Guide
Paragraph: "What if....."
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Morgan's conclusion.
How would the
original English model of colonization, if it had been successfully
implemented, have changed American history? How did this Utopian model go
wrong?
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Experiment
Powerpoint Project: Roanoke
Presentations (Assignment Table)
Homework:
- Complete Roanoke
Presentations
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Cannibalism in Brazil in 1557 as alleged by
Hans Staden
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Powerpoint
Project: Roanoke
Presentations: (Assignment Table)
Film: Opening sequence from The
New World (2005) (dir, Terrence Malick)
Homework:
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Chandos Portrait of Shakespeare (1620's)
Europe in 1519
From the Visscher
Panorama of London 1616
A Tempest Approaches
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Montaigne: "On
Cannibals" (first published in England, 1603) (Study Guide)
Summary of Roanoke Experiment and
Intro to The Tempest (1611)
Read
out loud in class The
Tempest (Act I, scene i)
Tempest
Sounds:
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Miranda and Prospero on the Beach
"Miranda" (1875)by
John William Waterhouse
Caliban (1770) John Mortimer
Jasper Britton as Caliban at Shakespeare's
Globe
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Read:
The Tempest (Act
I, scene ii) "Prospero’s Cell",
pp. 4-21: Prospero, Miranda, Ariel, Sycorax, Caliban, Ferdinand Tempest Quiz One
Discussion:
Paragraph: Describe
Prospero's state of mind at the outset of the action. From what past
experiences in Prospero's life has the tempest sprung?
Paragraph:
How does the imagery of Ariel's
Song relate to Prospero's revenge? (Listen Robert
Johnson's version of the Song)
Homework:
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Report (Powerpoint Presentations) on Prospero, Prospero, Miranda, Ariel,
Sycorax, Caliban, or Ferdinand
- Character
Biography
- Paraphrase Key
Speech
- Collect other
words or phrases Shakespeare uses to describe your character
- Collect Internet
Images (suggested sites)
associated with your character
- Thesis: How does
this character connect to the action of the play: Prospero's
decision to break his staff.
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Caliban (1770) John Mortimer
Jasper Britton as Caliban at Shakespeare's
Globe
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Jasper Britton as Caliban at Shakespeare's
Globe
Ferdinand's Entrance
Tempest" (1856)
Ferdinand
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Character
Report Presentations
Paragraph: Describe
Prospero's state of mind at the outset of the action. From what past
experiences in Prospero's life has the tempest sprung?
Paragraph:
How does the imagery of Ariel's
Song relate to Prospero's revenge?
Homework:
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Portrait of Machiavelli (1500)
Masque
Costume Inigo Jones
Poole,
Paul Falconer.
Spirits
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Thesis Paragraph: What must Prospero do to avoid being consumed by the
tempest in his mind? What is the meaning of Ariel's Song?
The strands of Prospero's anger:
1.
Antonio: Can you devise a government
which will contain the ruthless ambition of immoral people?
2.
Caliban (Colonialism) What principles
should govern the interaction between modern and undeveloped cultures?
(Should Caliban have been taught how to speak?)
3.
Miranda (Patriarchy) How can a parent
protect a child from the dangers of the real world? (Should Prospero
intervene in the budding relationship between Miranda and Ferdinand? If so,
how?)
4.
Ariel (Power) If you had the power of
a God, would you use it to rid the earth of evil? (Is there really any
magic which exists to help Prospero with these dilemmas?))
The
Tempest, Act
II, scene i "What's
Past is Prologue" (pp.21-29) Study Guide
(Must Prospero turn himself into Machiavelli's Prince?)
·
Gonzalo's Commonwealth
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The
Primal Sin
commonwealth: "The whole body of people constituting a nation or
state, the body politic; a state, an independent community, esp. viewed as
a body in which the whole people have a voice or an interest."
(OED)
Paragraph: What sort of trial has Prospero staged for his brother? What
makes a New World utopia impossible?
(Machiavelli's bleak vision of human nature from The
Prince, Intro, chapters 14-19, 26 (Notes on Machiavelli)
vertu- instead of defining virtue according to
Christian values, Machiavelli defined vertu as the ingenuity which
combines with fortune to lead to success.
Homework:
Read:
The Tempest:
Act II, scene ii: O
brave monster! (pp. 29-34)
ACT III Scene i: Admired
Miranda! (pp. 34-37)
Act III, scene ii: When
Prospero is destroyed. (pp. 37-41)
Answer Study Guide
Questions and Prepare Vocabulary:
Resources: C.T. Onions, A
Shakespeare Glossary
For further reading:
Isaiah Berlin on Machiavelli (NY
Review) (notes)
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Stephano and the Beast
Stephano and the Beast
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Tempest Quiz 2
The
Tempest
Act II, scene ii: O
brave monster! (pp. 29-34)
·
Stephano
Meets the Beast
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How does this comic scene relate
thematically to the central ideas of the play as a whole?
Act III, scene ii: When
Prospero is destroyed. (pp. 37-41)
·
Is there any difference between Antonio's
plot and Caliban's plot? What
is the way of the world according to Machiavelli?
·
Consider Caliban's great speech
describing the wonders of Prospero's island. Would he have been better off
never learning how to speak?
Homework:
4th Period: Baroque
and Mannerist Art
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Essay on The Tempest
ACT III Scene i: Admired
Miranda! (pp. 34-37)
- Miranda's Proposal
- Is this romantic
scene really all peaches and cream? What doesn't Miranda understand
about what she is getting into?
Homework:
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Ariel as Harpy Bowling
Green State Theatre
The Harpy
Costume for Inigo Jones' New World Masque
Ariel Asks
Prospero to Spare Antonio
Derek Jacobi as Prospero
1982
Slavery in Jamestown (1607)
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Tempest Spot Passage
Quiz
Act III, scene iii: The
Deep and Dreadful Name of Prosper (pp.41-44)
- Have you ever had a
dream which flipped suddenly from wish fulfillment to nightmare? When
does this scene change?
Why does Shakespeare construct this climactic scene in this way?
- What does Ariel
actually do to Alonso, Antonio and Sebastian? (See here, here and here) Can you imagine
a worse punishment? What kind of vengeance has Prospero chosen to
take? (Could such a punishment be meted out to a prisoner today?)
- Should Prospero
relent?
Act IV, scene i: The
Masque: A Most Majestic Vision (pp. 44-52) Study Guide
- How has Ferdinand
passed Prospero's test?
- Use your imagination
and conjure up a suitable spectacle to celebrate such a moment.
What spirits would you summon to the scene? (Masque Powerpoint)
- What causes the
celebration to suddenly evaporate?
- How do you
interepret Prospero's Great Speech: "Our revels now are ended..."
- Even though Prospero
and Ariel can easily deal with the plot, what un-resolvable
philosophical problem does the rebellion present?
- Do you agree with
Prospero's final condemnation
of Caliban? How does he punish him?
Act V, scene i: O
brave new world!; Epilogue (pp.52-62) Study Guide
Homework:
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RIGAUD, Portrait of Louis XIV 1701
Louis XIV, costumed as Sun King for the Ballet de Nuit
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Essay on The Tempest due at 3:30 p.m
The Seventeenth Century
Homework:
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Galileo's Painting of the Moon
Kepler's Laws of Motion
Hooker's Flea
Rene Descartes (1596-1650)
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Mid-Year Exam
(Exam Locations)
Revolution in Scientific
Thought: Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton
Study Guide Questions
Prospero's Magic: The History of Astronomy:
Java Applets: Kepler, Newton,
Einstein and Beyond
Homework:
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Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679)
John Locke (1632-1704)
Sir Isaac Newton, Kneller
Portrait (1689)
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Revolution in Scientific
Thought: Copernicus,
Kepler, Galileo, Newton
Revolution in Political
Thought: Machiavelli,
Hobbes, Locke
Study Guide Questions
Homework:
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plate of Printing Press
plate of String Instruments
Plate of the Manufacture of Cannon from
Diderot, Encyclopedia (1756-80)
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The
Enlightenment, pp.12-24 Study Guide Questions (Answers)
Theories of
Modernization: Achieving
Sovereignty
Philosophical Implications of the New Cosmology:
Deism, Newton, Leibniz, and Pope
Locke's Epistemology: Tabula
Rasa
Soveriegn: The Emergence of the Modern
State
Homework:
Sophie's
World (pp.226-341)
The Seventeenth Century
For further reading:
4th Period: Baroque
and Mannerist Art
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Rembrandt (1659)
Caravaggio, The Beheading of John the Baptist (1608)
Caravaggio, David with the Head of Goliath (1606)
Rubens, The
Rape of the Daughters of Leucippus (1618)
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Baroque and Mannerist Art
4th Period: Baroque Music
Homework:
Sophie's
World (pp.226-341)
The Seventeenth Century
For further reading:
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Tourists try to rush to safety before the tsunami hit the Hat Rai Lay Beach
in Thailand. The water had receded before the deadly wave struck.
Tsunami Videos
Man
Engulfed in Wave
Asia's Deadly
Waves NY Times
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Mid-Year Exam
(Exam Locations)
The Enlightenment, pp.12-24 (Study Guide Questions 18-23)
Rev. Charles Davy: "The
Earthquake at Lisbon" (1755) An Eyewitness Report
Homework:
Responses to the The Lisbon Earthquake
(1755) (Notes)
Everyone should read the introduction. Then prepare a report with a
partner on one of the following responses to the disaster:
For further reading:
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Damage to the Cathedral, Lisbon Earthquake, 1755
Hokusai: The Great Wave
Off Kanagawa
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
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Mid-Year Exam
(Exam Locations)
Optimistic Determinism,
Natural Evil and The Argument According to Design:
Responses to the The Lisbon Earthquake
(1755) (Notes) (Questions)
Homework:
Read Swift, A Modest
Proposal (1729) Notes (Quiz) Swift's Biography; Define Satire. (OED)
For further reading: (mandatory for all
Irish!):
from Desmond's
Concise History of Ireland
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The Plantation System in 18th c. Ireland
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Ireland in the 18th c
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Map of Ireland 1600
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Map of Ireland 1700
Notes on Susan
Nieman's Evil
in the Modern World (2002)
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Irish Beggarwoman and Child (Illustrated
London News, 1843)
"IRISH BEGGAR" cartoon, Harper’s
Weekly, 7 November 1857
William Hogarth, Gin
Lane (1751) More Hogarth: The Rake's
Progress
"Two Forces"
from "British Racism: Before, During, and After the Famine"
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Mid-Year Exam
(Exam Locations)
Swift's Biography, (Gulliver's Travels,
1726)
Define Satire.
Fr.
L. satira, satura satirical
poetry, poetic medley, fr. (lanx)
satura full plate, plate filled with various fruits
A poem, or in modern use sometimes a prose composition, in which
prevailing vices or follies are held up to ridicule. Sometimes, less
correctly, applied to a composition in verse or prose intended to ridicule
a particular person or class of persons, a lampoon. (OED)
Swift, A Modest Proposal (1729)
Notes (Quiz)
Study Questions:
- At the outset of
this essay what does the reader expect to be the author's point?
- (The Reality: The Plantation System in 18th c.
Ireland; Map of Ireland 1700)
- What Enlightenment
values are under attack in this savage satire?
- How is the real
character of this landlord revealed beneath the highly rational
surface of the prose? (Diction, Emphasis)
- Does Swift ever
overtly show his hand or deliberately drop his pose? (His true proposal)
- Compare Swift's view
of poverty with William Hogarth's depiction of the ravages of drug
abuse (Gin Lane) in London.
Homework:
Notes on Susan Nieman's Evil
in the Modern World (2002)
4th Period: Music of the
Classical Era
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Voltaire at Age 23
Houdon, Voltaire,
1781
Boucher
Color Me.
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Mid-Year Exam
(Exam Locations)
Swift Satire
Writing Project (Due by 3:30 p.m.)
Readings of Modest Proposals
The Enlightenment of the 18th Century
Read Voltaire, Candide
(1758):
Chapters 1-3
Homework:
Voltaire,
Candide (1758):
Chapter 1: Candide's
Expulsion from Westphalia (The Fall of Man)
Chapter 2: The
Recruiting Officers
Chapter 3: The
Seven Years War
For further study:
Notes on Susan Nieman's Evil in the Modern World
(2002)
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Fragonard, The Swing (1765)
The Baron ... seeing this cause and this effect, 1787 edition
... chased Candide away with great
kicks in the rear, 1787 edition
Candide fled as quickly as possible to
another village], 1787 edition
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Voltaire, Candide
(1758):
Chapters 1-3 (Quiz1)
"A man who thinks all the world exists for his benefit is no better
than the pampered goose who believes that the farmer who fattens him exists
for his."
"Evil"
defined:
Evil cannot be defined as merely the consequence of crime or
unfortunate events. Evil shakes our faith in the order of the
universe:
- metaphysical evil suggests a defect
in the relation between the physical structure of matter and time:
entropy
- natural evil results from
earthquakes, tsunamis, and the like
- moral evil results from
deliberate wrong-doing or from the reward of vice and the punishment
of virtue.
Defending Optimistic
Determinism:
"Everything is for the best in this the best of all possible
worlds." (Prof. Pangloss) Evil must be part of a plan which will lead
us to ultimate harmony.
Voltaire, Candide
(1758):
Chapters 1-3
Chapter
1: Candide's
Expulsion from Westphalia (The Fall of Man)
Chapter 2: The
Recruiting Officers
Chapter 3: The
Seven Years War
·
Does Voltaire believe that education and
experience can condition us to avoid evil?
·
What Is Voltaire’s vision of the heroic
adventure of warfare?
·
What do Anabaptists like Jacques believe?
Why does he save Candide?
Homework:
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Lisbon Harbor During the Earthquake
of 1755
Goya, Those Specks of Dust. 1796-1797
The Grand Inquisitor
An Auto-da-fe in Lisbon
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Mid-Year Exam
(Exam Locations)
Voltaire, Candide,
Chapters 4-7 (Quiz)
Chapter 4: Pangloss with the
Pox and Jacques the Anabaptist
Chapter 5: The Death of Jacques
and The Lisbon Earthquake
- What is Voltaire’s implied point in Pangloss’ absurd
justification of the horror of syphilis? (Is there a physical
connection between immorality and the causes of STD's?)
- What is Jacques'
opinion of Pangloss' philosophy?
- How does Jacques the Anabaptist die? What
is Voltaire’s point?
- Does Voltaire believe that there is a moral reason for the terrible
destruction of the
Lisbon Earthquake?
- Why does Voltaire include the perverse frenzy
of the looters who take advantage of the destruction?
- How does Pangloss try to comfort the
survivors of the catastrophe?
- How does Pangloss get in trouble with the Spanish
Inquisition?
Chapter 6: The
Inquisition’s Auto-da fe
Chapter 7: Reunion with
Cunegonde
- How did the Inquisition respond to the
Lisbon Earthquake?
- What happened immediately after the auto-da-fe?
(What is Voltaire's take on the link between moral evil and natural evil?)
- Has Candide learned
anything yet? How is Candide saved (once again)?
- How did Cunegonde survive?
What do you make of Voltaire’s choice to make Candide and Cunegonde indestructible?
Homework:
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The Old Woman Among the Moors
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Mid-Year Exam
(Exam Locations)
Voltaire, Candide,
Chapters 8-12 (Quiz)
Chapter 8: Cunegonde's
Story: Shared by the Inquisitor and the Jew
Chapter 9: Candide
Commits Murder (Twice!)
Chapter 10: Bound
for the New World
- Has
Cunegonde learned anything thus far from her adventures?
- What compromise regarding the possession of Cunegonde was reached between
the
Inquisitor and Don Isaachar? (Can reason enable natural enemies to
overcome their differences?)
- What moral judgment should we attach to Candide's killing
of Don Isaachar? (Is it murder?) How about the killing of
the Inquisitor which follows almost immediately thereafter? (Is that
murder?)
- What conclusion should we draw from Voltaire’s obvious anti-Semitism? (To
what extent does this irrational belief discredit him?)
- Who saves Candide and Cunegonde? (Why?)
- What is Candide's
response when Cunegonde tells him that all of her jewelry has been
stolen? (Has he learned anything?)
- Why does Candide believe that the New World
will be different from the Old? (Has he learned anything by this point? How
about Cunegonde?)
Chapter 11: The
Old Woman's Adventures: The Wheel of Fortune
Chapter 12: The
Old Woman's Adventures: The Plague, Slavery, Cannibalism, Suicide
- What should we make of
Voltaire's racism?
- To what indignities
was the young princess subjected? Who saves her?
(Why?) What misfortune befalls her in Algiers?
- How did she lose her buttock in
Russia?
- Despite all her
terrible ordeals, the Old Woman never commits suicide. What
is the most important lesson she has learned?
Homework:
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Candide Shoots the Apes
El
Dorado, "The Gilded One"
Musica
Raft
Candide and Cacambo loading the Flying Sheep
1787 edition
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Mid-Year
Exam (Exam
Locations)
Voltaire, Candide,
Chapters 13-18
(Quiz)
Chapter 13: The New
World: Buenos Aires
Chapter 14: The Jesuit
Utopia
Chapter 15: Candide Kills
his Brother-In-Law
Chapter 16: The Biglugs:
Man in the State of Nature
- Why does Cunegonde
decide to dump Candide for Governor
Don Fernando d'Ibaraa y Figueora y Mascarenes y Lampourdos y Souza?
Do you agree with the old woman’s advice? What about the ideal of
love?
- Who is Cacambo? (Keep track of how many times he saves Candide's life.)
- Describe Voltaire's impression of the New
World paradise created by the Jesuits in South America. How
different is it from the Old World? (See Jesuit
Missions in South America)
- Who does the commandant
of the Jesuit mission turn out to be? Why does Candide kill him?
- What does Candide find out right after saving the girls in the jungle by
shooting the
monkey men that had been chasing them? (Do we make this kind of
judgment about foreign cultures often? See Pinker on the teddy bear
named 'Muhammad'.)
- What did the Biglugs
plan to do to Candide after they capture him? How does Cacambo save Candide
once again?
- What is the most basic law of
nature? (Would Voltaire call this law evil?) What version of the social
contract would Voltaire embrace? (Compare to Hobbes and Locke)
Chapter 17: Eldorado
Chapter 18: The
Government of Eldorado
- What was the legend of El Dorado?
(See Time)
("The Gilded Man")
- After showing the reality of society in the New World, Voltaire presents
his vision of Utopia.
- How do Candide and Cacambo find El Dorado?
How was this community founded?
What economy?
What religion?
What government?
What is the one
rule you must follow if you want to live in El Dorado?
- Why does Candide insist on leaving El Dorado? What do you make of this
choice? How does he and Cacambo get over the mountains?
Homework:
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This is the price for the sugar you eat in
Europe"], 1787 edition
Candide Reunited with Cunegonde
Candide in his Garden
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Mid-Year Exam
(Exam Locations)
Voltaire, Candide, chapters 19-21; chapters
27-30 (Quiz) (Study Guide)
Chapter 19:
Surinam
Chapter 20: Martin the
Manichean
Chapter 21: More of Martin’s
Philosophy
-- How did the slave
lose his hand and leg? Describe the conditions on sugar plantation in the French
West Indies. These plantations were the most profitable in all the French
Empire. (How do you think they financed their wars?)
-- When Candide hears the black man's story, what does he finally conclude?
(Is this a bad moment
for him?)
-- What is Candide’s plan to recover Cunegonde?
-- How does Candide get ripped off by Mynheer Vanderdendur?
-- How does Candide meet
Martin the Manichean? (What is a Socinian?
What is a Manichaean?)
What is the topic of their conversations enroute to France? What is
Martin's argument for the existence of Satan?
-- Does what happens during the sea battle
to confirm Martin’s philosophy? What is Voltaire’s point? What is the purpose is
served by the design of the universe, according to Martin? Would Voltaire
agree with Martin?
-- How has Candide emended Pangloss’ philosophy? What keeps Candide from
embracing Martin's dark philosophy? What has he learned?
Chapter 27: Constantinople
Bound: the Galleys of the Turks
Chapter 28: The
Adventures of Pangloss and the Baron
Chapter 29: Reunion
with Cunegonde and the Old Woman
Chapter 30: The
Conclusion
Homework:
4th Period: Music of the
Classical Era (Web Format)
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Houdon, Voltaire,
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Mid-Year Exam
(Exam Locations)
4th Period: Classical Music
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Second
Semester Begins
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