{"id":715,"date":"2020-10-21T15:50:45","date_gmt":"2020-10-21T15:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/classics.domains.skidmore.edu\/film\/?p=715"},"modified":"2020-10-21T15:50:45","modified_gmt":"2020-10-21T15:50:45","slug":"assignment-for-tuesday-10-27-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classics.domains.skidmore.edu\/film\/uncategorized\/assignment-for-tuesday-10-27-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Assignment for Tuesday, 10.27.20"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Dear Cinemythologists,<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On Tuesday, October 27, our fourth and final unit, on the Trojan War, 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>Homer, <em>Iliad<\/em> 1, 6, 16, 22, and 24<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>In a perfect world, we would have time to read all of the <em>Iliad<\/em>, which is <em>the<\/em> primary text about the Trojan War \u2014 though it is hardly all-encompassing. In fact, the poem&#8217;s focus is on an argument that rages among the Greek forces for roughly seven weeks in the tenth year of the conflict. You won&#8217;t find the abduction of Helen or the Trojan Horse here. What you will find is an epic about honor and the morality of war, about mortals and gods, and about a city not yet beaten down into the dust.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In subsequent classes we&#8217;ll consider the larger sweep of the Trojan War and the texts in which that sweep is best represented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But not today. Today, we&#8217;ll let Homer do the talking. These books will not only introduce the poem&#8217;s main characters but also the epic scope that would inspire later poets and artists \u2014 the lives of human beings set against a great cataclysm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>(OPTIONAL) <a href=\"https:\/\/ucbclassics.dreamhosters.com\/djm\/10A_2011\/IliadOutline.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Outline and Timeline of Homer&#8217;s <em>Iliad<\/em><\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This optional, bare-bones summary of the <em>Iliad <\/em>by Prof. David J. Mastronarde (Berkeley) will help fill in the gaps left by our selective reading of the poem.<\/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 themes of Homer&#8217;s epic as well as its impact on screen texts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, October 27, our fourth and final unit, on the Trojan War, officially begins. As is customary, we&#8217;ll begin with primary sources: all reading, no viewing. Homer, Iliad 1, 6, 16, 22, and 24 In a perfect world, we would have time to read all of the Iliad, which is the primary text about &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/classics.domains.skidmore.edu\/film\/uncategorized\/assignment-for-tuesday-10-27-20\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Assignment for Tuesday, 10.27.20&#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":[5,138,139,137],"class_list":["post-715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-assignments","tag-homer","tag-iliad","tag-trojan-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classics.domains.skidmore.edu\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715","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=715"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/classics.domains.skidmore.edu\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":716,"href":"https:\/\/classics.domains.skidmore.edu\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/715\/revisions\/716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classics.domains.skidmore.edu\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classics.domains.skidmore.edu\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classics.domains.skidmore.edu\/film\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}