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Department of Classics College of Liberal Arts and Sciences

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Week 16: Perpetuating

Roth, Ghost Writer

  • Amy Bellette
  • E. I. Lonoff

Bhagavad-Gita

  • Arjuna
  • Krishna
  • Kurukshetra War (from lecture)

Weeks 14-15: Questioning

Beckett, Waiting for Godot

  • Vladimir (Didi)
  • Estragon (Gogo)
  • Pozzo
  • Lucky

LeGuin, “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas”

  • Omelas
  • the child

Melville, “Bartleby the Scrivener”

  • Turkey
  • Nippers
  • Gingernut
  • Bartleby
  • the Tombs

Thoreau, Walden

  • Concord (from lecture)
  • Emerson (from lecture)
  • Transcendentalism (from lecture)
  • Immanence (from lecture)
  • “live deliberately”
  • “life is frittered away by detail”
  • Kouroo

Week 13: Constructing

Savage, “The Politics of Memory: Black Emancipation and the Civil War Monument”

  • William Dean Howells
  • John Quincy Adams Ward, The Freedman
  • Thomas Ball, The Freedman’s Memorial
  • The National Lincoln Monument
  • The Shaw Memorial

Hester, “Subconscious Landscapes of the Heart”

  • Manteo, NC
  • Sacred Structure
  • Jule’s Park
  • Ice Box Island

Carr, Multimedia Lecture

  • Frederick Law Olmsted
  • Plaza Mayor
  • Village Green
  • Plaza of the Americas

Week 12: Sustaining

Leopold, “Land Ethic” from Sand County Almanac

  • Ethical Sequence
  • Land Ethic
  • Land Pyramid
  • Energy Circuit

Maathai, Unbowed: A Memoir

Barnett, Mirage

  • Lake Lanier
  • Chattahoochee
  • Apalachiocola Bay
  • ACF Compact
  • Benjamin Moeur
  • Nova Group

Week 11: Owning

Berger, Ways of Seeing

  • Glamor (need to define as described in Berger)
  • Publicity (need to define as described in Berger)
  • Spectator-Buyer (need to define as described in Berger)
  • Cinderella (need to define as described in Berger)
  • Enchanted Palace (need to define as described in Berger)

Sandel, “Markets and Morals”

  • Era of Market Triumphalism
  • Moral Limits of Market

Painted Desert

  • Fitzroy Crossing
  • Aborigines
  • Ngurrara I and II
  • Mangi
  • Wangarr
  • Dreamings

Week 10: Fighting

Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom

Head, “The Prisoner Who Wore Glasses”

  • Brille
  • Span One
  • Hannetjie

Wo-Haw, “Between Two Worlds”

Martin Luther King Jr., “Letter from a Birmingham Jail”

Week 9: Fighting

Sophocles, Antigone

  • Antigone
  • Ismene
  • Kreon
  • Haimon
  • Teresias
  • Eteokles
  • Polyneices

Pagán, Multimedia Lecture on the Antigone (Part 1 and Part 2)

Week 8: Governing

Freeman, “The Original Position”

Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

Universal Declaration of Human Rights

Week 7: Celebrating

Burrichter and Smith, Multimedia Lecture

  • Friedrich Schiller
  • Ninth Symphony
  • D Minor

Heschel, “Palace in Time”

  • Sabbath
  • Menuha

Barbery, Elegance of the Hedgehog

  • Monsieur Trianon

Week 6: Sharing

Fletcher, “Befriending Luna the Killer Whale”

  • Vancouver Island
  • Nootka Sound
  • First Nations
  • Orca

Twain, Diaries of Adam and Eve

  • Hannibal (from Monday’s lecture)
  • Samuel Clemens (from Monday’s lecture)
  • Niagara Falls Park
  • “The First Chestnut”
  • Kangaroorum Adamiensis

Thompson, “I’m So Totally, Digitally Close to You”

  • ambient awareness
  • micro-blogging
  • Shannon Seery
  • Dunbar number

Plato, Symposium

  • Socrates
  • Diotima
  • Ladder of Love

Week 5: Embodying

Susan Bordo, “Reading the Slender Body”

  • “20/20” study
  • Robert Crawford
  • “Consumer capitalism”
  • “Consuming woman”
  • Bram Dijkstra

Emily Prager, “Our Barbies, Ourselves”

  • Jack Ryan
  • Zsa Zsa Gabor
  • Raytheon Company
  • Madame Alexander

Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (audio interview and excerpt)

  • Debra Lacks
  • George Gey
  • HeLa Cells

Michel Paterniti, “War Dogs”

  • Jose Armenta
  • Zenit

“War Dogs” (video)

  • Layka

Week 4: Seeking

Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

  • Siddhartha (the character or historical figure)
  • Govinda
  • The childlike people / the child people
  • Kamala
  • Kamaswami
  • Samsara
  • Siddhartha’s dream
  • Kamala’s bird
  • The river
  • The Ferryman
  • Vasudeva
  • The smile
  • Siddhartha’s son

Week 3: Seeking

Wislawa Szymborska, “The Onion”

  • daimonion
  • daimon  (explained in Monday’s lecture)
  • “A centripetal fugue. Polyphony compressed.” (Be able to explain two things about this line)

Pablo Neruda, “Parthenogenesis”

  • Parthenogenesis (the meaning of the word, not the title of the poem)
  • “I’ll go on as I was in the beginning.” (Be able to explain two things about this line)

Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha

  • Siddhartha (either the character in the book or the historical figure [mentioned in Monday’s lecture])
  • Four Noble Truths (explained in Monday’s lecture; see also the Siddhartha Glossary)
  • nirvana (explained in Monday’s lecture; see also the Siddhartha Glossary)
  • Buddha (explained in Monday’s lecture; see also the Siddhartha Glossary)
  • Govinda
  • Samanas
  • Gautama (the character in the novel)
  • Brahmin (explained in Wednesday’s lecture; see also the Siddhartha Glossary)
  • Brahman (explained in Wednesday’s lecture; see also the Siddhartha Glossary)
  • Atman (explained in Wednesday’s lecture; see also the Siddhartha Glossary)

Week 2: Thinking

Oscar Wilde, Importance of Being Earnest

  • Oscar Wilde
  • Algernon Moncrief
  • John Worthing
  • Ernest Worthing
  • Gwedolen Fairfax
  • Cecily Cardew
  • Bunburyism
  • Cucumber sandwiches
  • Hand-bag
  • “Sisters”
  • The importance of being earnest (the line from the play not the title)

Week 1: Thinking

Vivien Sung, Five-Fold Happiness

  • Rebus
  • bat
  • Vase
  • Nine
  • Double Happiness

Herodotus, The History

  • Solon
  • Croesus
  • Tellus
  • Cleobis
  • Biton
  • Cyrus

The Ayurveda

  • Three Kinds of Strength
  • Three Sources of Disease
  • Three Ambitions
  • Rebirth