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Adding Oedipus to Book of Centuries?
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In the margin of the Ancient Greece lesson plans it indicates that the students should add “Oedipus–technically it reads Oedious, which must be a typo–marries his mother and reigns in Thebes (1300 B.C.)” to their Books of Centuries.
Learning alongside my children about the Greeks is challenging. I’m having a hard time keeping straight what is fact and what is fiction with all of the mythology involved. It is confusing that on the next page we are to write “Gideon delivers Israel (1245 B.C.),” presented as fact as recorded in Scripture when on the page before we are adding something that was from a fairy tale.
Is anyone else having this problem?
What if you write the date it was written instead? According to Wikipedia, that would be about 400 BC.
Thanks, Holly. I think I will. I was very surprised to see something fictional listed to add. I don’t remember seeing “Oberon and Titania become king and queen of the fairies, 1595.” Maybe there is a reason for why they put that there?? I could be making too much of it. 😉
Okay, Melissa, so you are saying I should take Elizabeth Bennet marries Fitzwilliam Darcy in 1813 out of my BoC?!
The date is taken from Christine Miller’s edition of The Story of the Greeks and her All Through the Ages timelines. (But the typo is entirely ours. 🙁 Thanks for mentioning it so we can correct it.) I agree, sometimes it’s hard to tell who/what was real and who/what was not in ancient civilizations when so much of their history is told in embellished myths alongside obviously unreal characters.
I do know that Gideon was real! . . .
But wait, Richele, are you saying Elizabeth Bennet was a fictional character?!
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