READING ASSIGNMENT: a very helpful passage from the Introduction to Oedipus Rex in our translation of the play is to start on page 138 with the paragraph that begins “But more important for the play’s impact…” and reading through to page 143 and the paragraph that ends “… and found wanting.” This part of the intro…

Sooo… between now and class on TH, your first priority is to finish reading OR, pp. 239-51. Then I would like for you to complete an IW in which you would consider writing an extended analogy between the game-playing that you did today during our block class and the manner in which OR  as a play is…

Reading leading up to tomorrow’s TU class: please make sure you have read up through the entrance of Oedipus at the bottom of page 238. Look for an IW prompt for TH’s class. And make sure that you have read the rest of the play by TH’s class. Please expect to be assigned some background…

FOR TOMORROW: please make sure that you have read up thru Scene 3, pp. 211-24. Today in class, one of the things we did was read some background on the history of Thebes and its founding by Cadmus.

Reading goal: Have all of Oedipus Rex read by Thursday of next week, 10/31. Ideal reading: for THIS TH’s class, it would be ideal if you had read up through Scene 2 of the play. Our Chorus presentations will be during our block on TU, the 5th of November. Here are the raw guidelines… 1. You…

Tonight we are reading the Prologue to Oedipus Rex. That’s lines 1-168 of the Fagles translation of the play we’re reading. Don’t forget from class today our list of “extra”-textual names and places, such as… Thebes Corinth Mt. Parnassus and the Oracle of Delphi Phocis Mt. Cithaeron the Pythia Cadmus Menoetios Laius Polybus and Merope Drunken…

I am going to go ahead and set things up for both TH and FR of this week and there will be some work for over the coming weekend. Reminder, I will see you all tomorrow, TH, but I will be out-of-town visiting my daughter Philippa in Fort Collins on FR. I be back on…

Weird syrup, this week folks. TU we meet. WE we do not meet. TH we meet again. FR you meet, but I am out of town. Don’t worry about homework between now and TH. Come to class on TH with your book and we’ll begin talking about drama and ancient Athens. You’ll also have an…

We have a long weekend ahead and I hope that you all get some rest. Please look over the prompts for our next WAM (below) and perhaps even look back over some of the earlier ones that you received. You can choose one of those, if you’d like. in the meantime, we are leaving Modernism…

Thank you for a delightful block today… I really love to make food and especially for friends and family and that includes all of you people… Remember… Earth (flour, salt, sugar) Air (baking powder) Fire (oven) Water (heavy cream) AND… As Heidegger via Nietzsche stipulated… Air = gods, deities, the eternal, miraculous, the sublime, etc.…