your current reading list?

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  • April 18, 2017 at 7:20 pm
    Rachel White
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    @sheraz:

     I am reading The Iliad by Homer and Homeric Moments by Eva Brann. I have been thoroughly enjoying Circe’s Homer podcast featuring Andrew Kern and Wes Callihan called A Perpetual Feast. 

    I try to listen to Circe whenever possible and read their posts. I am always moved, educated, and inspired. ***Can you please tell me about Homeric Moments? It’s on my wish list so I can use it.

    The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare. Just took a class by Angelina Stanford…

    I’m so jealous. I kept looking at that class over and over, but didn’t do it. I’m taking a 1 sem. class using WTTW to learn that specific lit. analysis essay and that’s enough, combined with my own co-op class on LOTR. I wish it were available for purchase as a recording. Circe has at least two classes a year, on in the fall and spring. Last fall, it was Hamlet. A. Kern is going to do a Cinderella/Fairy Tales class I’m an definitely signing up for; it’s the first of a series.

    https://www.circeinstitute.org/store/events/cinderella-circe-literature-seminar

    FYI, The Inspired Scholar is using the Austin books as a base for teaching lit. analysis essay writing this summer for a 7-wk mini-course if you know anyone interested. https://www.inspiredscholar.com/

     

    April 18, 2017 at 8:09 pm
    sheraz
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    Hi Rachel – it’s good to hear from you! 🙂

    Homeric Moments literally talks about “Homeric” moments.

    Okay, just kidding, sort of. 😉 Eva Brann wrote it after reading/teaching Homer for 50 years and she sort of highlights the “BIG” (critical or Homeric) moments that tell the story – one per chapter. There are 48 chapters total. She focuses a lot on the Odyssey, mainly because that is where so much of the whole story is told. She gives background information about characters, places, situations – so that they become “real” and it makes the human element more relate-able. She delights in his similes and explains how the Greek translates, often to help us understand the musicality of the prose. It is quite fun to read and know the passages she is talking about and seeing it in a more beautiful way.

    I loved the Taming of the Shrew class. I feel so much more equipped to enjoy Shakespeare on a deeper level than ever now. She mentioned that she used the book called The Elizabethan World Picture as part of her preparation for the class, and it is quite inexpensive on Amazon. 😉 Also, she recorded the class and you may be able to purchase it and watch it still (it would be through her website – link below).

    Angelina Stanford is offering an Ancients class for a year – for high school students up. She is going to cover The Iliad, The Odyssey, The Aneid, Oedipus Rex, and selected myths. I REALLY want to take the class. Here is a link to her personal website where you can see it for yourself:

    https://angelinastanford.com/year-long-courses/

    She has another one on Sir Gawain and the Green Knight that she is talking about posting. I hope she does.

    I feel the same way about Circe. I learn a lot from them and feel inspired not to give up my dream of a classical CM education. I also enjoy the Close Reads podcast – between the three of them, I learn something each time, all while feeling like I am listening to friends – I am learning to quilt so I listen while I am working with my hands.

    I have already registered for the Fairy Tale seminar. I am looking forward to those very much. 🙂

    I am off to look at the inspiredscholar!

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