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Odyssey
Augustus/Rome
vocabulary building
Caribbean Epic
past-oral tradition

e-mail:
jvsickle
@brooklyn.
cuny.edu


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Core Curriculum 1.1

Classical
Cultures

 

 

Building English  Vocabulary 
via 
Latin &  Greek 
Roots 

Classics 0.11

Terms for Getting
It & With It:
'to eye & ear'; 'to mouth, taste. tongue', 'to hand'   click here

SAMPLE QUIZ ANSWERS

 

 

Roots of Style 
Latin & Greek
Elements in
English.
[introductory
lecture
&
lists of elements
(atoms!) that combine, 
CLICK HERE]

metaphor & metonymy
click here
   consonant chart
click here  

 Robert
Frost's
First Book

read with

English Seminars

Jagiellonian University
(Cracow)
&
Lodz University
(Lodz)
click here
Scene from Greco-Roman Pastoral


Also Taught

Recently 

Elective: Homer to Omeros

Exile & Return in Caribbean & Classical Epic: From Homer to Derek Walcott's Omeros

[for syllabus
click here]
 
a course growing from my earlier work on the pastoral or bucolic poetry of Virgil & its tradition, , also from an earlier course on pastoral forms & transforms , & leading to my current work on Derek Walcott.
PASTORAL TRADITION:
A sampler of readings for a lecture delivered at  Ritsumeikan University, 
Kyoto, June 2003
click here
Scene from Greco-Roman Pastoral Classics 15W &
Religion 16W 		 
Humanities Seminar:

Mythemes of Minding:
In Search of Pastoral Tradition 

Humanities Seminar:
From Homer to Omeros by Derek Walcott
Environmental Studies: Environmental Ideologies & Their Classical Root

Gauguin in Martinique=

  

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