12d • General discussion
Firsts matter.
μῆνιν ἄειδε θεὰ Πηληϊάδεω Ἀχιλῆος - Iliad 1.1
RAGE! sing, goddess, of the [rage] of Peleus' son, Achilles
ἄνδρα μοι ἔννεπε, μοῦσα, πολύτροπον, ὃς μάλα πολλὰ - Odyssey 1.1
the MAN... tell me, Muse, of the [man] of many-turns, who so many ...
The first word introduces our theme. The first line frames the stage.
The first surviving epics (there were more!) 'root' us in the soil of culture and history.
If you're here, you likely already believe this and care about this.
I'm new to Skool, so I need a few days to figure out how best to leverage the platform. I'll be uploading materials, linking to tools, probably relying on a mix of documents, video, and apps...and communicating so you can all keep up. Hopefully this can be built in such a way that lets people progress fully asynchronously if need be.
The community is currently set to 'free'. If it gets crowded, I may end up gating it a bit. The process will hopefully result in a full curriculum and some useful tech, but the TAM on Homeric Greek is likely terrible, so monetization is unclear at the moment--although most universities would charge you thousands of dollars for access to my time.
I have a PhD in Greek and Latin (Classics) from The Ohio State University, and have taught Greek (and other things) for many years. Homer is one of my favorite things. At Baylor I occasionally taught an accelerated Greek sequence where we would cover 2 years of content in 10 weeks! (Mostly to PolySci grad students.) The best part was always when we did Homer at the end. We're going to flip this upside down, and START with Homer, and frankly I think it will be much easier and faster to get up to speed...although don't expect to be able to suddenly go and read Plato or the New Testament afterwards (the language changed a lot in 500 and 1000 years!).
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