Class Notes February 4th - February 6th

The Four quartets  by T.S. Elliot 

• "We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring...."
• http://www.coldbacon.com/poems/fq.html
• arrive where you've started, but its a different place
• you've changed, initiation 
• Homework: presentation on the subject of initiation 
• needs to included an element of pain, suffering 
• Eliade "Rites and Symbols of Initiation"
• initiation associated with pain/suffering

The Swerve: How the World Became Modern

• Natural way the world came into being, draws from Lucretius, who also influenced Ovid

etiologies - how things came to be 

Apocalypse - end of world, removal of the veil 

February 6th

Death, Afterlife, and Eschatology

• study of the end of days/end of time

Ritual - repeated in a formal orchestrated way 

myths in everyday life 

sacrifice - to make sacred, sacra/fice

myths of ritual involve passage through 

Test - What to Know

Apollo and Daphne

Io

Callisto

Europa 

Cadmus

Actaeon

Simile 

Tiresias 

Narcissus

Pentheus 

Orpheus

Pygmalion

Myra and Adonis

opening cosmology

question of first days