- Orality & Literacy
- Wisdom of the Mythtellers
- Moonwalking with Einstein
- the Art of Memory
We are supposed to start with Walking With Einstien and have it finished by Wednesday 1/18/2012
- Topics that were discussed during class
- How most, if not all, epic poems start by invoking the muses for creativity, specifically reference Odysseus
- Know all 9 for the first test: names & attributes
- Discussed Athena's birth from Zeus's head as he had ate her mother, Metis, the muse, who is known for her cleverness.
- Epithet: we will all have one by the end of the semester
- Example: Odysseus's: Clever Odysseus
- Muses
- Clio: history
- Euterpe: lyrical poetry: flute
- Thalia: comedy
- Melpomene: tragedy
- Erato: love poems
- Terpsichore: dance
- Polyhymnia: hymns
- Urania: astrology
- Calliope: epic poetry
- CCutetemp (See the cute temp)
- look up all nine to work on remembering them
- Memory
- Kubla Khan: poem we will have to recite
- things being metrical help memory
- start reading Moonwalking with Einstein
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