Classics/Foreign Lit, 4-20, Period 2

[game-of-you.livejournal.com]

Dream half-smiled at the class as they came in, which from him should be counted as an infectious grin.

"Hello, students. Welcome to your very last class that will focus on new material. Next week, you will devote both days to preparing your final projects."

"For today, though, there is work to be done. Literature students, please select a poem by an African author and write a few sentences in reaction. Classics students, you are to read a biography of the great writer Horace, and react to any of his surviving poems."

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Re: Classwork, Classics/Foreign Lit, 4/20

[janet_fraiser]

"He's very depressing," said Janet, after she'd frowned at a few of Horace's poems. "Does it matter that everyone dies? I think how we live, or what we accomplish while living is more important."

Re: Classwork, Classics/Foreign Lit, 4/20

[game-of-you.livejournal.com]

Dream nodded. "That is true," he said. "But you must remember, times uncertain when he wrote, and human lives much shorter and darker. There was a certain comfort in knowing that Death was there,a companion to all at the end of days."

"He also wrote, Even if times are bad, they won't always be so:
for Apollo doesn't always tense his bow, but sometimes inspires the silent Muses. Which is uplifting, in a way."

Re: Classwork, Classics/Foreign Lit, 4/20

[cantgetnorelief.livejournal.com]

"Sure, if you look at it that way," Anders said. "But if you think of it as a way to remind you to take advantage of every moment, it's not that depressing."