Classics/Foreign Lit, 4/18, Period 2

[game-of-you.livejournal.com]

Dream nods in greeting to the students as they file in. An array of fresh fruit -- including plums, kumquats and starfruit as well as apples and bananas -- is offered in baskets at the front of the classroom.

Foreign Lit: Dream lectures on African literature for precisely half of the class.

Classics: Dream lectures on Roman mythology for the other half of the class.

At the end, Dream addresses all students as a group. "This is the final unit of new material for all of you. Next week, you will begin work on your end-of-term projects, which will be due on May 3. Each of you will be expected to handwave write a paper on one of the topics we have discussed in class; classics students may write in Latin, Greek or English, though you will be expected to refer to relevant texts in the original tongues if you write in English. I will expect proposals from each of you a week from today, on April 25."

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Sign In, Classics/Foreign Lit, 4-18

[game-of-you.livejournal.com]

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Re: Sign In, Classics/Foreign Lit, 4-18

[nadiathesaint]

Nadia signed in for Foreign Lit

Re: Sign In, Classics/Foreign Lit, 4-18

[janet_fraiser]

Janet signed in for Classics.

Re: Sign In, Classics/Foreign Lit, 4-18

[ihatedenmark.livejournal.com]

Hamlet signs in for foreign lit.

Re: Sign In, Classics/Foreign Lit, 4-18

[notcalledlizzie.livejournal.com]

Elizabeth signed in for Foreign Lit.

Re: Sign In, Classics/Foreign Lit, 4-18

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders signs in for Classics, with a commuter mug of coffee in hand and a distasteful look on his face.

Because he didn't rinse the soap completely out of his coffee mug kind of like exactly like his player this morning before he poured the coffee into it, and while apple-scented Dawn smells really great, it doesn't make such a good coffee syrup. Blech.

Re: Sign In, Classics/Foreign Lit, 4-18

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

JOhn signs in. He's a bit sleepy.

Classwork, Classics/foreign lit, 4/18

[game-of-you.livejournal.com]

Listen to the lectures, pass notes, ask questions. Etc.

Re: Classwork, Classics/foreign lit, 4/18

[janet_fraiser]

Janet took a lot of notes on Roman mythology, looking for any Tok'ra names she recognized. She'd listened curiously to the African literature lecture for a while too.

"Professor, do you have any information on Egeria? I think she was supposed to be a Roman patron deity of fountains." She didn't look over at Liz when she asked.

Re: Classwork, Classics/foreign lit, 4/18

[game-of-you.livejournal.com]

Dream nodded. "She was a water nymph, known as the second wife and counselor of the second king of Rome, Numa Pompilius.

"She gave wisdom and prophecy in return for simple libations of water or milk at her sacred grove, near where the Baths of Caracalla were erected in the 3rd century. Egeria was associated by Romans with Diana, and women in childbirth called for her aid."

Re: Classwork, Classics/foreign lit, 4/18

[janet_fraiser]

"She sounds much nicer than some of the more major deities," said Janet. "Thanks, Professor."

Re: Classwork, Classics/foreign lit, 4/18

[notcalledlizzie.livejournal.com]

Elizabeth was too busy making a mess with the plums to react to anything.

Re: Classwork, Classics/foreign lit, 4/18

[janet_fraiser]

"Hungry?" whispered Janet. She hadn't even bothered to try slicing her starfruit up and was nibbling on it instead.

Re: Classwork, Classics/foreign lit, 4/18

[notcalledlizzie.livejournal.com]

Elizabeth looked up, sucking plumb juice from her fingers. "I missed breakfast," she said sheepishly.

Re: Classwork, Classics/foreign lit, 4/18

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders, having given up on the soapy coffee, retrieves a bottle of Gatorade from his backpack and sips from that all through class as he takes notes.

"What's with the Romans co-opting everybody else's gods, anyway?" he asks. "Were their own gods kinda crappy? Like Jeff the God of Biscuits and Simon the God of Hairdos??"

Re: Classwork, Classics/foreign lit, 4/18

[game-of-you.livejournal.com]

Dream almost chuckled at that. "In a way," he said. "They built their civilization largely by borrowing, rather than creating."

Re: Classwork, Classics/foreign lit, 4/18

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

Anders grinned sheepishly. "Well, at least they had pretty good taste when they picked 'em. It's pretty interesting that farming and fighting both got so much focus in their religion."

Re: Classwork, Classics/foreign lit, 4/18

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

John, still sleepy, puts his head on the desk. Just for a moment.


[[what happens if John sleeps and dreams in Dream's class?]]

Re: Classwork, Classics/foreign lit, 4/18

[game-of-you.livejournal.com]

Not interrupting his lecture, Dream lightly went to stand by the young man and concetrated on seeing what was inside that always-drowsy head.

[OOC: Something like this, if you want.]

Re: Classwork, Classics/foreign lit, 4/18

[apocalypsesoon.livejournal.com]

It only takes a minute for John to dream, and what a normal dream it was. At first. It never starts off as a nightmare.

[[sure. Something I've been wanting to do all semester is have John fall asleep in Dream's class]]

Re: Classwork, Classics/foreign lit, 4/18

[game-of-you.livejournal.com]

Dream looked more closely, testing, tasting the realm of the dream. It seemed as though there could be great evil in it, or great good.

The other students in the room would notice nothing.

After class, Classics/Foreign Lit, 4/18

[game-of-you.livejournal.com]

The professor has a few moments to answer any final questions.

Re: After class, Classics/Foreign Lit, 4/18

[notcalledlizzie.livejournal.com]

"Do the Foreign Lit students get to choose which language they write in?" Elizabeth asked, pausing for a moment as she packed up her bag.

Re: After class, Classics/Foreign Lit, 4/18

[game-of-you.livejournal.com]

"They do," Dream said. "My suggestion would be it be a reaction to a work we read in class, but I am certainly open to other possibilities. What do you haev in mind?"

Re: After class, Classics/Foreign Lit, 4/18

[notcalledlizzie.livejournal.com]

Elizabeth grinned slightly sheepishly. "My first instinct is to always go for a Russian piece," she admitted. "Which is what I did for my midterm. I enjoyed the Italian literature though, so I might look into something we did during that period of study and use it to increase my Italian vocab at the same time."