fiction files redux discussion

I thought I should take us out of the "Happy Birthday" thread. I sort of have a crush on Professor Struck. I can tell he wants to delve into the really nasty bits, but the online moderator won't let him. His hair reminds me of when Paul was in grade school, and the teachers always tried to comb his hair on picture day. Please don't bother.

good idea! hello! :)

i'm glad you like his floppy hair too, and i am not the only one! in lecture two it is clearly refusing to part properly. i also like watching him trying to dart around the quotes on the screen, and when he's obviously reading a page off screen and we can a sliver of his head. :P

he's not going to delve into the nasty bits? i thought he warned us he was going to, and people better make sure they are coming up... i suppose it's unavoidable when oedipus is coming down the pipe. i hope when we get to ovid he does my favourite tereus, procne, and philomela. i'd almost qualify that as my first favourite horror story. everybody is psycho!

starting to read my odyssey today so i am ready for next week. did you notice the link to the perseus project for reading texts online if you don't have the recommended. i like the online links are the classics translated by the classics. :)

Have y'all started working on your class project for the Skype conference? Mine is entitled "Swingin' in the Breeze: The Use of Bronze Wind Chimes in Ancient Roman Gardens." It's all about those naughty phalluses that were used as lucky charms. (I'm sure floppy-haired Peter Struck will appreciate it.)

Jingling penis or tintinabulum

This particular phallus was so virile, it had its own phallus.

Ahhahaha! I know that "y'all" was directed at me. My project will be a diorama of the "Sons of Anarchy" as the modern embodiment of noskoi.

Mo, I'm not going to keep taking those goddamned quizzes until I get a perfect score. I'm perfectly happy with my 18.6.

@Adrian: I wear one as a necklace to the weekly bacchanalias I attend.

I am halfway through the first week's videos, I don't think there is anyway I am going to be able to keep up.