NOTES FROM APRIL 2, 2007

Ashley wins for having picked the best five lines out of the class...On page 73 from Europa and Jove:
Europa now is terrified; she clasps
one horn with her right hand; meanwhile the left
rests on the bull's great croup. She turns to glance
back at the shore, so distant now. Her robes
are fluttering-they swell in the sea breeze.

Only 5 people in the class have gone through adolescence.
Only 7 people in the class have ever had to leave their home.
Only 5 people in the class have ever known a person with power.

In the end---To invite the Gods is to destroy the relationship you have with them, but it will set history in motion. However, a life where the Gods are not invited is not worthy of living, possibly more quiet, but there will be no stories...and what is a life with no methos?? Not one worth living!

Oscar Wild- was said to be the decadent of decadence (which is not something dipped in chocolate, but really means immoral)

There are no immoral or moral books, but rather well written or poorly writ en books.

NOTES FROM MARCH 28, 2007

Redemptive Power of Art

--Protect the baby from sickness, death, and old age...who was the baby?? BUDDHA!

--Two other books with as much power as Ovid's:

1.) The complete works of Shakespeare

2.) Finnegan's Wake, by James Joyce

H.W.- Find five lines from Ovid's that I would take to the desert with me.

---Imagination bodies for things unknown and gives an airy nothingness to things unknown.

Dr. Sexson says go to Kirk Hill and look for these three birds: The nightingale who is actually Philomela.....The Swallow who is Procne, and The Hoopoe Bird who is Tereus.

In these days, we would play a game called" whats the worst thing that could possibly happen?" You wanna play??? No Thank you!

NOTES FROM MARCH 26, 2007

We beagn the class with having every person write up on the white board their pick of one of the stories from Ovid. Then Dr. Sexson gave us his favorites, however, he picked more then one...

The Rape of Io....pg 25
Syrinx....pg 31
Europa....pg. 71
Erache....pg 77
Pigmalian
Tereus, Procne, Philomela....pg 193
Daedalus....pg 255
Pythagoras....pg 515

Homework: Look up the paintings "The Rape of Europe" by Titian, and "Spinnets" by Valezquez.

Collisto: gets turned into a bear, her son is going to kill the bear that is his mom, but the gods take pitty and turn him into a bear too, and were turned into the stars.

Dr. Sexson read Ovid in ten minutes!!
At the end of the class Dr. Sexson made up his mind, hi favorite pick is The Sibyl...on page 277!

NOTES FROM MARCH 23, 2007

Live Fast....Love Hard....Die Young!

The Gardens of Adonis....More info on Elizabeth's Blog.

How do trees reproduce? They give birth of course! And as always the baby's father is the mothers father?? Yep, that's what I said. The baby is born, and its a little boy!! Named Adonis.

What is the most erotic activity a man and woman can engage in?? CHECKERS!! No...that's just silly. Its sex of course...wrong again...it is obviously telling stories :) After a long period of missing one another, Adonis and lover tell stories. Hers was of a crazy animal in the forest, which Adonis did not believe. Being the manly man, he went to hunt and was gored in the groan by slant tusks to death by a wild bore. She looked at her bleeding lover and says "ill change his blood into a flower" She sprinkled scented nectar on his blood. One hour later a blood red flower the color of a pomegranate emerges. The anemone, and winds shake its fragile petals and they fall.

Tiresias: the Obi-Wan Kenobi of his day.

Bread and wine....the body and the soul....the bread is from wheat which is from Demeter. And the wine is from Dionysis.

ANAGNORISIS---Recognition of their situation and their personal arrogance.

NOTES FROM MARCH 21, 2007

On the topic of Christians for the begging of the class we discovered that there are 2 out of 40 people in that class that are Christians, but I'm sure this is not true....

And also, we are certain that Elvis is not dead, he lives....he is very obese, but is not dead.

Ovivd's Metamorphoses:

The story of Pentheus, meaning greif. (also meaning mourning or sorrow)

---Not somthing to name your kid, they grow up to be a mad of constant sorrow.

----------HIS MOM EXPLODED!!---------

Thebes City Story: planted serpent teeth and out of the ground, from which there sprang a race of fierce armed men, called Spartes. By throwing a stone among them, Cadmus caused them to fall upon one another until only five survived, who assisted him to build the Cadmeia or citadel of Thebes, and became the founders of the noblest families of that city.

Cadmus had four daughters, and all were bad: Ino, Autonoe, Agave, and Semele

Autonoe was the mother of Acteon, who was looking at a naked woman with unpure thoughts and was torn apart...SPARAGMOS....by his own dogs. Semele wanted to see God as God in his natural form.

Lessonof the day from Dr. Sexson: When someone asks you to do them a favor, ask WHAT IS IT FIRST, never agree to do anything before you know what your agreeing to. Also: Rent the movie "Iris".

The Metamorphoses of Ovid is all about doing it again, much like ground hogs day, we must go through our day over and over again until we get it right.

Homework Assignments::

1.) For extra credit dress up as a Maenad, with a dress, wig, head band, and dance!

2.) Start a cult in Bozeman dedicated to Dionysis, must have lots of wine, snakes, cattle, costumes, and enough strength to lift trees.

3.) Pick a favorite story from Ovid's and blog why its the favorite, and add art of the story.

NOTES FROM MARCH 19, 2007

We read page 32 and 72,the very last page of the play Lysistrata, also read Sarah's essay on Athenian women in that back of the play. FOR THE TEST

---To the counselor, the women dress him up as a woman, he is the scape goat. By dressing him up as a woman they expel him from the group to no longer lead the men.
---He was then dressed up as a corpse, to show the death of manhood.
Aristophanes makes fun of the phallace, but while accepting its life force because without it none of us would ever exist.

Sereta is going to take one for the class. She will be expunged and the rest of the class will all
get A's.

The last page, all couples reunite and dance, paired, twp by two.
--Leda and the Swan, lays two eggs. Out of one pops the two boys, Castor and Polydeuces....and out of the other pops two girls, Helen and Clytemnestra, without Helen the Trojan war would have never happened.

Bacchae-
Hits the jailer on the head with his guitar and then runs, but plays the guitar as he is running. All the women are curious and swooning over him.
---Apollo, can not be Elvis because Apollo had no game, and got no women.
---Dianisis, not interested in smartness but all about "what comes natural" and would drive women out of their minds, literally.

NOTES FROM MARCH 7, 2007

"Who in this class knows a bad word?" 1 out of 3 right?? WRONG, The answer was 9 out of 40.
-Read Sarah, translator of Lysistrata, the essay on Greek women.
-Two things are said about comedy:
Comedy deals with people who are worse then they are, and tragedy deals with people who are better then they are.
Comedy deals with phallic profession.
Three kinds of comedy:
old comedy
new comedy
Shakespearean comedy