Notes January 18

• Please tell Dr. Sexson what creation myth you want to do
• No class on Monday
• Read Brook's blog
• examples of how engage the materials in the class
• Recursive Stories
• Ovid's Metamorphoses
• Chapter 10 is an example
• stories within stories
• Thesus and Pirithous Story
• Story of Leda
• Lead and the Swan
• Poem by William Butler Yeats
• sons Castor and Pallox
• All mythology is connected by webs of people 
• can find representation of other stories connected by people in other stories
•  Sundays and Cybele
• Discussed through Chapter 10 
• everyone should be about to this place in the book
• Pygmalion
• Pretty Lady
• My Fair Lady
• story retold 
• creation of the perfect woman
• Pygmalion
• play by Henry Shaw
• One of the few stories in Metamorphoses that ends happily
• Moral/Message
• relationship between art and reality
• Synchronicity
• syn. coincidence
• concept of Jung
• in mythology everything is synchronicity
• Story of Sisyphus
• Tantalus
• tantalized
• The Myth of Sisyphus
• Albert Camus
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