Notes April 3

• Tomorrow night is the Fredrick Turner talk
• Everyone must attend!!!! 
• Final Exam- 50 pt 
• Wednesday 8am Finals Week
• Should be pretty easy
• April 15th Presentations Start
• more time than on previous presentations (5 minutes)
• Your Life as a Mythic Detective
• Apocalypse
• Finite as individuals & as a species 
• Mythology of everyday life
• Ovid deals with more extreme forms of behavior, specifically Book 12
• Chapter 14
• story of woman who asks for youth
• tremendous pathos
• "I was cherished by a god and now I am becoming less and less, which is noticed by no one". 
• Jake's blog
• any ordinary day becomes mythological
• Feed the Birds
• mythology isn't always found in the extreme but can be found in the ordinary
• Book 8
• Baucis & Philemon
• ordinary story
• everything is interesting if looked at with an elevated consciousness
• small talk
• parables to public 
• Buchenwald- Beech Wood- Nabokov
• Agricultural mythology
• sacrifice of something that was living to be sacrificed to the earth
• dying and rebirth of the god
• Adonis Attis Osiris
• Apocalypse
• disclosure of knowledge
• deconstruction- religious meaning
• Realized Eschatology
• believe that the apocalypse has already happened
• maybe not a literal ending but symbolic meaning
• Fredrick Turner will be here on Friday.
• Class is mandatory!!!!!
• Wrote a book Epic 
• please bring a question to ask Frederick Turner in class on Friday
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