Epic, Community, and Identitytag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-6197412007-04-24T10:13:00-07:00A class website and discussion forum for HUM 212E, Spring 2007, Mount Saint Mary's College MA Program in the HumanitiesTypePadSummationtag:typepad.com,2003:post-332700622007-04-24T10:13:00-07:002007-04-24T10:13:00-07:00All of the texts we covered this semester have some features of epic that we have discussed - they read and interpret a mythical past to say something about the present, the search for origins, multiple points of view, and...vemoshttp://vemos.typepad.com/hum212e/2007/04/summation.htmlBritons, Trojans, Saxons, Normanstag:typepad.com,2003:post-326954302007-04-09T23:24:36-07:002007-04-09T23:24:36-07:00There's a great deal more to Geoffrey of Monmouth's History than you were given to read. It begins with the supposed origin of the Britons (i.e. the Welsh who had been driven to the periphery of Britain after the successive...vemoshttp://vemos.typepad.com/hum212e/2007/04/britons_trojans.htmlGeoffrey of Monmouth; MacDougaltag:typepad.com,2003:post-320102282007-03-22T16:23:56-07:002007-03-22T16:23:56-07:00In case anyone missed it: Here is the link to download readings for W5 https://wfs.pomona.edu/xythoswfs/webui/_xy-64544_1-t_CKcWsAfQvemoshttp://vemos.typepad.com/hum212e/2007/03/geoffrey_of_mon.htmlBeowulf as epic? tag:typepad.com,2003:post-317675242007-03-16T16:03:33-07:002007-03-16T16:03:33-07:00To get ourselves in the right frame of mind for W5 (which is still two weeks away, I know, but we're doing the big Bee-wulf, so I'm stoked), maybe we should discuss a bit about what makes (or doesn't make)...vemoshttp://vemos.typepad.com/hum212e/2007/03/beowulf_as_epic.htmlTacitus and Virgiltag:typepad.com,2003:post-312372582007-03-05T22:33:08-08:002007-03-05T22:33:08-08:00Both the Agricola and the Aeneid at some level are meditations on what it means to be Roman. Virgil and Tacitus led very different lives: Tacitus, the soldier, senator, Imperial official and functionary. Virgil the rural man of letters, a...vemoshttp://vemos.typepad.com/hum212e/2007/03/tacitus_and_vir.htmlNew Research Journals and documents from W3tag:typepad.com,2003:post-309953302007-02-27T23:24:58-08:002007-02-27T23:24:58-08:00Martin, Nikki, Liliana and Lynda have begun blogging - add them to your RSS reader, Google or Yahoo homepage, or whatever - and give them the benefit of your comments, suggestion and support. . . . http://lilianameetsaeneas.blogspot.com/ http://mightywarriorkingkillerofthebear.blogspot.com/ http://nikkidv.blogspot.com/ http://whyhera.blogspot.com/...vemoshttp://vemos.typepad.com/hum212e/2007/02/new_research_jo.htmlresearch journalstag:typepad.com,2003:post-306670902007-02-21T11:06:24-08:002007-02-21T11:06:24-08:00The purpose of a fish trap is to catch fish, and when the fish are caught, the trap is forgotten. The purpose of a rabbit snare is to catch rabbits. When the rabbits are caught, the snare is forgotten. The...vemoshttp://vemos.typepad.com/hum212e/2007/02/research_journa.htmlAeneid 4:". . varium et mutabile semper femina"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-304073482007-02-12T22:32:21-08:002007-02-12T22:32:21-08:00Woman is "a thing that is always changing, shifting like the wind." (Book 4) It doesn’t take a genius to see a pattern emerge in the Aeneid with regard to women: The good ones (Creusa) are dead; the powerful ones...vemoshttp://vemos.typepad.com/hum212e/2007/02/aeneid_4_varium.htmlFurther reading on Vergil; Documents from W2tag:typepad.com,2003:post-302935262007-02-11T20:28:12-08:002007-02-11T20:28:12-08:00Here are a few suggestions for further reading on Virgil, epic, and on the era of Augustus. Lucan, Pharsalia. Lucan writes an anti-Imperial epic during the reign of Nero. It didn't go over well. He locates the death of the...vemoshttp://vemos.typepad.com/hum212e/2007/02/further_reading.htmlResearch Questionstag:typepad.com,2003:post-153826272007-02-03T19:18:03-08:002007-02-03T19:18:03-08:00The outcome of any serious research can only be to make two questions grow where only one grew before. - Thorstein Veblen There are questions we ask because we can find the answer, and questions we ask because they help...vemoshttp://vemos.typepad.com/hum212e/2007/02/research_questi.html