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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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

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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

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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."