Class Procedures and Reminders
Project Stack. I'll try to update the stack periodically over the weekend, so you can check the stack to make sure I received your assignment. On Monday, I'll start replying to the assignments in the order turned in, starting with the assignments that were still in the stack on Friday.
Finishing up the class. A few more people finished the class last week, which is great to see! It's always nice to finish this class early if you have intense end-of-semester stuff to do in other classes. I'd encourage everybody to make a plan for finishing up, and if you have any questions about that, let me know.
The following items are for fun and exploration:
Blog stream. It's so fun seeing the microfiction experiments that people are trying... like this fun one from Tyler: New Beginnings. It's a combination of looking ahead but also blending in wacky details from the past (see her author's note for details).
The following items are for fun and exploration:
Blog stream. It's so fun seeing the microfiction experiments that people are trying... like this fun one from Tyler: New Beginnings. It's a combination of looking ahead but also blending in wacky details from the past (see her author's note for details).
And just to blow your mind: a backwards clock (it's in Bolivia). Weird time for a weird world!
And an essay on the Mahabharata by Sanskrit scholar Audrey Truschke: The living Mahabharata.
Plus modern Greek mythology: the classical myth of Jason and vengeful Medea... as Social Medea.
Here's a TED-Ed video about Jason and Medea:
April 10. Today marks the birthday of Montague Summers in 1880, an English clergyman and writer known for his books on werewolves, witches, and vampires. You can learn more about his life and career at Wikipedia, and you can find his book The Vampire: His Kith and Kin online. In addition, he translated the Latin Malleus Maleficarum, a 15th-century manual for witch hunters. Here is the title page of a Latin edition of the Malleus:
April 11: Margaret of Navarre. Today is the birthday of the French writer Margaret, Queen of Navarre, in the year 1492. You can read about her remarkable life and career at Wikipedia, and selections from her book The Heptameron will be one of the reading options coming up in the Myth-Folklore class! Here is her portrait:
This video provides a quick introduction to her work; it's a promo for what sounds like a great class!
