Vocabulary, Ch. 5

Find an example of someone who failed to finish the last stage of his or her hero quest, like bin Laden.  Then tell us the story.  You must use at least 3 Ch. 5 vocabulary words in your response.

Odysseus in America

Please read the excerpt from Odysseus in America (Odysseus Among the Rich Civilians) by Dr. Jonathan Shay that I posted on my class website.  Then, in a comment, tell us how that made your see Book 8 differently or how it enriched your understanding of the text.  Please use at least 3 vocabulary words in your response.

Everyday Heroes?

Pick a famous actress, music performer, politician, or athlete and, in a comment, please trace their hero quest according to the major stages of Joseph Campbell's model.

Vocabulary, Ch. 3

Please use at least three Ch. 3 vocabulary words in your answer to the following prompt: what stories do you know that begin in medias res (in the middle of things)?  Why do you think the author or director chose to break chronology and write the story that way?

In Medias Res

Hestia 

by: Mia Bonner and Morgan Vicknair

The goddess Hestia reigns?

Over the cooking of bread and the family meals

She is the Greek goddess of the sacrificial fire or the hearth (or the area in frount of the fire place.

Goddess’s symbol:

The hearth

Origin of Hestia:

She was the first of her siblings to be swallowed by her father at birth. Although, out of all of her siblings, she was the last to be disgorged. She was named the oldest and youngest of the six kronides. when both Apollon and Poseidon asked for her hand in marriage she refused. Instead she asked her brother, Zeus, to let her remain an eternal virgin and Zeus accepted. She tended the hearth in Olympus and every hearth on earth was her alter.

Poems or supplemental writings with Hestia:

Hestia Poem
By Melia Suez, CO

Hestia, maiden pure,
Has no desire for love.
First and last born,
Her hand was sought
By Sea and Light.
Completely unwilling,
Stubborn even,
She refused to be a matron,
Swearing on the head of the Father
To be maiden all her days.
Given was she, honor high,
A place in every home and temple
And the richest offerings,
both first and last.
Hail Hestia, Chief of the Goddesses
May you warm my home
And make all who enter welcome.

Music that is associated with Hestia:

Dionysus

Turner Caldwell & Jack Schuette

Anthropomorphism- The connection of an attribute to a god

Epithet- Adjective expressing a quality characteristic of someone

Eponym- A person after whom something is named

Etiological tale- a story that explains the existence of some phenomenon

Myth- traditional story explaining early history of people or a phenomenon

Pantheon- All of the gods of a people

The song Blame it by Jamie Foxx ft. T-pain explains Dionysus because his way of life is a party using alcohol and living life to the fullest.

Dionysus is the son of Zeus and Semele. He is the only god to have a mortal parent. Zeus came to Semele in the night, invisible, felt only as a divine presence Semele was happy with being a lover of a god even though she couldn't tell which one.

They believed Dionysus was the god of fertility and wine. He was later seen as a patron of art. He invented wine and spread the art of tending grapes.

Dionysus's symbols are the bull, serpent, ivy, and wine. He is also shown sometimes riding leopards.

Many short poems about Dionysus are written.

Dionysus walks his vineyard, his beloved;

Two women in dark clothing - two vintagers - follow him.

Dionysus tells the two mournful guards - The vintagers:

"Take your sharp knife, my vintners, Grief and Torment;

Harvest, Grief and Torment, my beloved grapes!

Gather the blood of scarlet bunches, the tears of my golden clusters -

Take the victim of bliss to the whetstone of grief,

The purple of suffering to the whetstone of bliss;

Pour the fervent liquid of scarlet delights into my ardent Grail!"

by Vyacheslav Ivanovich Ivanov