{"id":685,"date":"2020-10-09T20:34:42","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T20:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/classics.domains.skidmore.edu\/film\/?p=685"},"modified":"2020-10-09T20:47:08","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T20:47:08","slug":"assignment-for-tuesday-10-13-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classics.domains.skidmore.edu\/film\/uncategorized\/assignment-for-tuesday-10-13-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Assignment for Tuesday, 10.13.20"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dear Cinemythologists,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Tuesday, October 13, our third unit, on Medea &amp; Jason, officially begins. As is customary, we&#8217;ll begin with primary sources: all reading, no viewing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size\">READING<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>&#8220;Apollodorus&#8221; on Jason, the Argonautic expedition, and Medea.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Another excerpt from &#8220;Apollodorus&#8221;&#8216;s <em>Bibliotheca<\/em> or <em>Library<\/em> of Greek myth, that ancient encyclopedia dedicated to cataloguing and sorting out the vast body of legends and lore associated with the Greco-Roman world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here you have a generous outline of the entire Argonautic legend, from the launch of the <em>Argo<\/em> to the ill-fated residency of Medea in Athens. In our third unit, we&#8217;ll expand this outline with other primary texts, starting with the very next reading.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/lib-proxy01.skidmore.edu\/login?url=https:\/\/lib-proxy01.skidmore.edu\/login?url=https:\/\/www.loebclassics.com\/view\/LCL001\/2009\/volume.xml\" target=\"_blank\">Apollonius of Rhodes, <em>Argonautica<\/em><\/a> (selections):<br><br>BOOK ONE: Mustering the Argonauts (pp. 3\u201333) \/ The Lemnian Women (pp. 51\u201377) \/ Heracles &amp; Hylas (pp. 97\u2013113)<br><br>BOOK TWO: Polydeuces v. Amycus, Phineus &amp; the Harpies (pp. 115\u2013141) \/ The Clashing Rocks (pp. 157\u2013161) \/ Meeting the Colchians (pp. 199\u2013215)<br><br>BOOK THREE: Goddesses conspire (pp. 217\u2013225) \/ Audience with Aeetes (pp. 233\u2013249) \/ Medea&#8217;s torment (pp. 275\u2013283) \/ Medea &amp; Jason (291\u2013305) \/ Sowing the teeth (315\u2013327)<br><br>BOOK FOUR: Taking the Fleece (pp. 339\u2013347)<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>These are the highlights from the <em>Argonautica<\/em>, a 3rd-century BCE epic composed by Apollonius, a poet and scholar of Egyptian Alexandria. An extremely learned poem, stuffed full with references to Homer and other epic and mythological works, the <em>Argonautica<\/em> owes its extremely expansive worldview to its era \u2014 the time after the death of Alexander the Great, who had united much of Europe and Asia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>These excerpts comprise the episodes typical in representations of the Argonauts&#8217; voyage to retrieve the Golden Fleece. Between this text and the summary of Apollonius, you&#8217;ll have a very full view of the Medea and Jason legend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>NOTE: The e-book is from the Loeb Classical Library, which publishes Greek and Roman authors in their original languages and in English: the original is at left, the translation at right. As you come to grips with the page numbers above, remember that the total should be halved; and they are small pages at that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-text-color has-background has-black-background-color has-black-color is-style-dots\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>In class we&#8217;ll discuss these versions of the Medea and Jason legend, and then consider two screen texts that represent the legend&#8217;s bifurcated reception: rollicking adventure versus heart-wrenching tragedy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, October 13, our third unit, on Medea &amp; Jason, officially begins. As is customary, we&#8217;ll begin with primary sources: all reading, no viewing. &#8220;Apollodorus&#8221; on Jason, the Argonautic expedition, and Medea. Another excerpt from &#8220;Apollodorus&#8221;&#8216;s Bibliotheca or Library of Greek myth, that ancient encyclopedia dedicated to cataloguing and sorting out the vast body &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/classics.domains.skidmore.edu\/film\/uncategorized\/assignment-for-tuesday-10-13-20\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Assignment for Tuesday, 10.13.20&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[109,130,131,5,129,128],"class_list":["post-685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-apollodorus","tag-apollonius","tag-argonautica","tag-assignments","tag-jason","tag-medea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classics.domains.skidmore.edu\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/classics.domains.skidmore.edu\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/classics.domains.skidmore.edu\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classics.domains.skidmore.edu\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classics.domains.skidmore.edu\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=685"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/classics.domains.skidmore.edu\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":692,"href":"https:\/\/classics.domains.skidmore.edu\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/685\/revisions\/692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classics.domains.skidmore.edu\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classics.domains.skidmore.edu\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classics.domains.skidmore.edu\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}