Tuesday, November 07, 2006
Considering that my grandfather has Lou Gehrig's Disease, and that I haven't seen The Grandparents in several years, I have been trying to find a decent travel option over Thanksgiving. Nothing seems too appealing, though. Perhaps I ought to wait until winter break.
I read a couple of articles Der Grair Bear wrote, and now have some better ideas about literature I might read next semester. Over the Thanksgiving and winter breaks, I should first read select Latin and Greek authors (in English translation) for background. These would include Virgil's Georgics and Eclogues (I read The Aeneid the summer before last) and Theocritus' Idylls. I have almost finished The Odyssey and read The Iliad this summer most recent. Then I need to look up the authors most influential to Goethe, Schiller, the Schlegel brothers, et cetera.
Among actual German works I would consider are Luise by Voss, Oberon by Wieland, select essays by Winckelmann and Schiller, and probably several things by Goethe, particularly Hermann und Dorothea. Viel Spaß.
I missed at least three days of Greek since the last exam, for various reasons, and need therefore this evening to study with Jason, who as well frequently absents himself from class, though he considerately schedules his absenteeism around mine, so that we should be able to fill in all our blank translations with the combination of what each of us does have. The Greek exam occurs Friday, after the exam for Dr. Reed's class (for which I have yet to study) and a day after the Latin exam. Viel Spaß.
I had all last evening to study, but after about half an hour of Greek I discovered I could not concentrate fully. I therefore (at the coffee shop) abandoned that endeavour to read through most of the fourth chapter of the library book I am reading, which was published very recently and concerns the German abandonment of Virgil in favor of Homer in the eighteenth century. It gave me a few ideas and also provides a decent bibliography of references.
Jetzt muß ich Latein studieren.
Viel Spaß.
[Lauree Frances Keith concluded this diatribe at 11:36 AM]