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Aeschylus Eumenides discussion questions

Posted on January 26, 2019 by Uncomely and Broken

Aeschylus, EUMENIDES Note the strange choral activity in this play Places Apollo’s temple at Delphi;  later, the Acropolis, and then the Areopagus in Athens Time Shortly after the murder of Clytemnestra Structure Fagles’pages Fagles’ lines (Grk lines) Part pp. 231-233 … Continue reading →

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Aeschylus, Agamemnon teaching notes

Posted on January 26, 2019 by Uncomely and Broken

  AESCHYLUS: ORESTEIA   Agamemnon:  Discussion Questions   How to proceed?  Read the play first, familiarizing yourself with the plot and the major thematic points.  Then go back through it slowly, taking into account the following questions (and coming up … Continue reading →

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Daniel/Amos/Jonah: discussion questions

Posted on January 26, 2019 by Uncomely and Broken

Some old discussion questions for an Honors class at Boston College on the prophets Daniel The Book of Daniel is set explicitly during the Babylonian Captivity, that 400-year period when the Israelites were forcibly removed from the Promised Land to … Continue reading →

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Notes on Ovid’s Fasti 1.1-288

Posted on January 24, 2019 by Uncomely and Broken

These are some notes I made for a class I taught over two decades ago at Boston College on Ovid’s Fasti, his epic poem on the Roman calendar,  At that time, there wasn’t a good commentary on Book 1, although … Continue reading →

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Ovid’s Priapus (Notes on Fasti 1.391-441)

Posted on January 24, 2019 by Uncomely and Broken

These are some notes I made for a class I taught over two decades ago at Boston College on Ovid’s Fasti, his epic poem on the Roman calendar,  At that time, there wasn’t a good commentary on Book 1, although … Continue reading →

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Protected: John Ciardi, “About Rivers and Toes”

Posted on January 7, 2019 by Uncomely and Broken

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Protected: The Afterlife of the Gifts of the Magi

Posted on January 6, 2019 by Uncomely and Broken

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Protected: Good and faithful servant

Posted on December 7, 2018 by Uncomely and Broken

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No middle way out of the waste land?

Posted on November 13, 2018 by Uncomely and Broken

I just love the March 6, 1950 cover of Time magazine, which depicts T.S. Eliot poised between a cross over his left shoulde, and a martini (or is it a grail?) on his right. The caption below reads, “No middle … Continue reading →

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The Green and the Red

Posted on July 23, 2018 by Uncomely and Broken

I suppose if I were to mention the Post Office and the Irish fight for independence, the first thing to come to mind would be the GPO on O’Connell Street in Dublin. But quite another thing occurred to me as … Continue reading →

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