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Tuesday, February 18
Today is Tuesday of Week 6. Here is a link to Week 6. It's another week of stories from the Middle East and India in Myth-Folklore, while it is the first week of the Mahabharata in Indian Epics. I hope you will enjoy the new reading!
Class Procedures and Reminders
Week 6 progress. Now that we are in Week 6, it means the semester is one-third over: 5 weeks down, and 10 weeks to go. In terms of points, that's 150 points so far, with 300 to go (plus extra credit). So, if you have not done so recently, you might want to check on your progress so far. If you are not where you want to be in terms of points, you can start doing some extra credit to fill the gap. Project Stack. As always at the start of the week, the stack is gigantic. If you turned in something on Friday or Saturday before noon, you should have comments back from me now, and you can check the stack to make sure I received your project. I'll keep working on the Saturday items in the stack today, and I should be able to start on the Sunday items too.
The following items are for fun and exploration:
Blog Stream. I thought this was cool: Dylan made a newspaper-clipping graphic inspired by a character from one of his stories: Dakka Crowned King! You can find that generator plus other fun ones in the Tech Tips. :-)
Twitter Stream. Some of you might know Professor Kaspari at OU; he's a great person to follow at Twitter, and that's where I found this lovely cartoon yesterday (bigger version).
Indian Epics Today. I'm revisiting the gods to get ready for the Mahahbarata, and Surya, the Sun-God, will be the divine father of the hero Karna. More about Surya. And here's an Epified video about the Sun Temple at Konark:
Words. A word from mythology, CORNUCOPIA, the "horn of plenty," which is associated with Amalthea, the goat who nursed the infant Zeus. In this vase painting you can see the earth god holding the keras amaltheias, the "horn of Amalthea," together with the goddess of the harvest, Demeter:
Event on Campus. It's Panther Palooza both today and tomorrow on the South Oval, 11AM-3PM: pies and water balloons! (details).
February 18: Nikos Kazantzakis. Today marks the birthday of the Greek poet and novelist, Nikos Kazantzakis, who was born in 1883. You may know him as the author of the book The Last Temptation of Christ, and he also wrote a continuation of the Odyssey, a modern epic poem picking up where Homer left off: The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel. You can read more about his life and career in this Wikipedia article. Here is a photograph of the inscription on Kazantzakis's tomb: Δεν ελπίζω τίποτα, δε φοβούμαι τίποτα, είμαι λέφτερος (I hope for nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.).
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