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From my Personal Stash
A collection of high-res scans of handouts from Dr Alexander MacGregor's Roman Rhetoric class. Very awesome.
Monday, 2004-09-13 | Careerism, Classic Gin, Literature
I've scanned the following handouts. The papers were originally given to me by Dr Alexander MacGregor.
The handouts cover a wide range of topics and I'll be discussing some of them during the coming week. What follows then, is a kind of index. Ye be warned, however, that the scans are at a pretty devestating resolution (about 2400x2900 in most cases); they're not for those with slow connections or for those who are operating at a low resolution.
That having been said, I urge you to peruse at your leisure:
- A map of the plot of Virgil's Aeneid
- A map that shows the path of Jason's Argonauts
- A small bit of the genealogy of Zeus
- A short list of ancient proverbs and axioms
- A timeline that concentrates on the period of civil wars and other upheavals that plague Rome's late Republic
- A flow chart of Roman magesterial hierarchy
- A list of watershed dates in Roman history
- A few tables of what A.M. calls 'common knowledge' in the ancient world
- A table of the various accounts of the story of Orpheus and his lyre
In the midst of one of the finest theological educations money can buy, I find myself affirmed in my pagan habits almost daily. If I've learned anything from my Old Testament exegesis class, such is the irony of wisdom.
