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Reading and Teaching The Odyssey
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Lesson 1: How to Read Homer by Eva Brann (Preview Content)4 Topics|1 Quiz -
Lesson 2: Interview with Eva Brann (Preview Content)3 Topics|1 Quiz
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Lesson 3: Interview with Tutor Hannah Hintze (Preview Content)2 Topics|1 Quiz
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Lesson 4: Lecture on Homer: "The Leaf Bed"3 Topics|1 Quiz
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Lesson 5: Seminar #1 on The Odyssey4 Topics|1 Quiz
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Lesson 6: Lecture on Homer: "To Hades and Back Again"4 Topics|1 Quiz
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Lesson 7: Post-Lecture Interview with Hannah Hintze2 Topics|1 Quiz
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Lesson 8: Seminar #2 on The Odyssey4 Topics|1 Quiz
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Lesson 9: Lecture on Homer: "The Cattle of the Sun"4 Topics|1 Quiz
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Lesson 10: Post-Lecture Interview with Hannah Hintze3 Topics|1 Quiz
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Lesson 11: Seminar #3 on The Odyssey4 Topics|1 Quiz
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Lesson 12: Seminar #4 on The Odyssey4 Topics|1 Quiz
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Lesson 13: Post-Seminar Interview with Hannah Hintze3 Topics|1 Quiz
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End of Course TestEnd of Course Test: Reading and Teaching The Odyssey1 Quiz
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- What do you think about the St. John’s curriculum?
- What do you think about how tutors must be able to teach in any part of the curriculum?
- If Odysseus’s “last adventure” will be to go inland where the inhabitants don’t even recognize oars, can we draw a conclusion about the contrast between this late-life journey and one that risks dramatic death by drowning? How do you think this last adventure could bring closure to Odysseus’s journeys?
- Hintze says that Penelope is young for her age and she imagines dying tragically, as young people often do. Yet dying dramatically and “tragically” is, in a way, what kleos is all about. Is kleos in its essence a young person’s ideal? How does this tie in with the epic’s concept of often undignified mortality?
