Classics/Foreign Lit, 4/18, Period 2

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

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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."