CLA 3380 Lecture 1: Lecture #1 (5/11)
17 Feb 2017
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Be reading iliad and odyssey as we read other things earlier in semester. Midterm test (day 6-7; first hour of class) Exams (combo of mc, tf, short answer/passage ids (no long essays) Take notes as you read: major events, minor events, characters, etc. Major events example, the overarching theme when you watch a season of a tv show. Minor events example, the specific episodes and their plots in a tv show. 178 - homeric hymn to apollo; homeric hymn to hermes; pgs. It"s not that we don"t understand it, but myths are attempts to explain things we can"t fathom; there is a sense of mystery (ex. Not really, really real, but maybe are. His definition of myth: a myth is . A traditional tale by which a society encodes and transmits values and information of central importance to both storyteller(s) and audience.
