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Roger T. Macfarlane 3021 JFSB macfarlane241@gmail.com
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past notes                                    

                      notes for class on       4 September 2013

Intros: students, TAs, instructor
this website & the syllabus
reception: OGCMA0571NOTHermes_Garfinkel, OGCMA0025NOTActaeon_Moira
—— Clack's "Diana" and other manifestations of the Actaeon myth
Morford & Lenardon
Top Hat student response and engagement system: some questions
expectations: midterms, papers, mastery images, attendance

** for next time:
register your device at TopHat
look into the Actaeon myth, OGCMA0017REIDActaeon
read the syllabus, start on OGCMA worksheet (due 11 Sept), read ML1

Use these tools to study mythological usages for exams and for papers.

   241 Mastery Images

A list of 42 usages Macfarlane feels all students should know.
Questions about Mastery Images appear on each exam.

Students should learn a five-point response for each Mastery Image:
a) artist's name, b) title of work, c) basic myth referenced, and d) (for 2 pts.) this work's particular "narrative gain" — What does the artist gain by using the myth here?

fm/OGCMA

fm/OGCMA is an index of all the OGCMA slides created for use in the course and elsewhere. Start by clicking the tab for HTML files, then scroll through the alphabetized listing.

MythMatters

A blog created and maintained by Macfarlane241 where new ideas on mythological reception are explored at the rate of about one usage per week. The MythMatters blog may help students see what sort of questions the instructor considers interesting and potentally productive for papers. He uses it to exhibit some of the ideas he is hatching in his pretty little head. He posts about once per week.

Ye Olde Mythlisting

The Mythlist may be scarcely useful anymore. (Thus the archaic name.) It is a crowd-sourced listing of a few hundred mythological usages in a spreadsheet with entries identified by OGCMA reference and beefed up with links. The Mythlist may be useful for students who want to explore new ideas. Click here for a look.

Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts

J.D. Reid, comp., The Oxford Guide to Classical Mythology in the Arts: 1300 - 1990s (Oxford University Press, 1993). This is the venerable reference tool to which all usages are keyed. The book is pricey. Therefore, Macfarlane expects all students will consult it in the HBLL at the Humanities Reference Desk. This tool is not available electronically. Staff at that reference desk knows how to use this important tool. Go and ask... or come to Office Hours.

bibliomythos

Scholars at the Austrian Academy of Sciences — Bernard Kreuz, Petra Aigner, and Christine Harrauer — assembled the Bibliographie zum Nachleben des antiken Mythos and posted it online in 2012. Presumably updates will follow.
Users don't really need to know German to access this valuable listing of usages. The downloadable .pdf version may be searched electronically.