WE ARE CONCLUDING OUR STUDY OF THE ILIAD this week, and will also review for the final on Monday and Tuesday of next week. The written analysis of Homer will be due early in second semester. Our next reading will be Esquivel's Like Water for Chocolate and the Very Short Introduction to Jung. You will want to make sure you have both from our bookstore.

TUESDAY

We will breifly return to the end of "Who Mourns for Adonis?" Why do Kirk and the other Enterprise officer's reject the God? Why would modern man reject God? Is Kirk right that we should "spare a few laurel leaves" for God(s)? Revisiting Achilles return to battle in books 20 and 21, wheren the Greek and Trojan mortals directly engage the Gods in warfare. We will then turn to Bernard Knox's essay, "Achilles."
HW: 2nd period: Read book 22. 6th period: Read book 20.

WEDNESDAY

2nd: Discussion of the battle between Achilles and Hector. Why doesn't Hector retreat behind the walls of Troy? Why must the Gods resort to trickery to prompt their confrontation, and ultimately Hector's defeat? Why doesn't Achilles agree to Hector's plea to respect the dead? What does all this tell us about a) the Gods, b) Hector, and c) Achilles? 6th: Discussion of the Gods intervention on behalf of Aeneas and Hector. Why doe the Gods interfere with human affairs on such a minute level? Or is that their purpose? What does that intervention mean for our world view?
HW: 2nd period: Read book 23: the ghost of Patroclus will come to haunt Achilles. Somebody call TAPS! 6th period: Read book 21: Achilles battles and nearly destroys nature itself.

THURSDAY

2nd period: What do we observe about Patroclus' burial and funeral games? 6th period: What do we think of a divinity and theology wherein god is so powerful, We will then return to the Knox essay on Achilles.
HW: 2nd period: Read book 24: the return of Hector's corpse and the respective funeral games. 6th period: Read book 22 (see prior notes for content related information).

FRIDAY

Comparing the deaths of Hector and Patroclus. Then, revisiting the structure of the Iliad. What does this tell us about the poem's meaning? We'll finish the Knox essay.
HW: Reviewing your notes, looking at Campbell's hero journey (monomyth). Period 6: Also finish reading books 23 and 24 of Iliad.

MONDAY

Today and tomorrow we will review Campbell's work in the context of the Iliad (today) and the other books we've studies (The Alchemist, The Ramayana, and Homer's Iliad.)
HW: Re-watch the Campbell video, here. Bring your copies of the three, afomentioned books to class tomorrow. We'll use them to study for the final.

TUESDAY

Studying for the final.
HW: After the final, we will return to Homer and begin looking at Achilles through the lens of Jungian psychology.

THURSDAY

Final is at 10:00 AM. Check posted signs for room number. You should bring your charged laptop/ipad as well as some headphones (there will be audio for the live reading, and you can type your written responses). This is a skill based test, not a cumulative final, so you do not need to bring copies of texts we have read.