The Golden Ass

One of the more interesting stories that we had to read this semester was The Golden Ass. It is one of those stories that combines many of the elements that I learned of in another class. That is to say, it is a prime example of stories within stories. The most obvious is the story of Cupid and Psyche mixed in with the primary story of a man who has been turned into a donkey.

Zeus

Maybe some of you will read this and get a little curious, so I thought that I would put a list of Zeus's infidelities on here and you could all look up the stories later.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeus

The list is pretty far down the page, but its also pretty long so it should provide you with at least a couple of hours of reading. Enjoy.

All that is past possesses the present

I was looking through some old movie quotes for a quote I couldn't quite place and I found this one. See if you can guess the idea that's behind the words:

"Hannah, can you hear me? Wherever you are, look up! Look up, Hannah! The clouds are lifting! The sun is breaking through! We are coming out of the darkness into the light! We are coming into a new world; a kindlier world, where men will rise above their greed, their hate and their brutality. Look up Hannah! The soul of man has been given wings and at last he is beginning to fly. He is flying into the rainbow! Into the light of hope! Look up, Hannah! Listen!"

This quote is from the end of the movie The Last Dictator (1940)

Changes of Perspective

I couldn't figure out a way to get my entire blog onto this sight so I thought that I would give you guys a brief synopsis instead. Much like I mentioned in class my paper deals with the transition I had from the beginning of class to the current point with regards to how I viewed, not only the world of literature and how it connects to the past, but also how we can use the lessons of Classical Lit to connect ourselves to our ancestors.

At the beginning of class I saw human existance as simply moving forward through time, ever advancing with no need or necessity to look back on what was behind us. To look back was simply to allow the past to catch up and perhaps destroy all that we have accomplished over the millenia. However, after taking this class, I have come to realize that it is necessary to look to the past, not only so that we would not repeat our previous mistakes, but also that by soing so we connect to a more instinctual part of the human psyche and in so doing we can remember that the world is not something in which we are isolated, but a sphere teaming with life with which we can interact, learning from it and becoming stronger for it.

Problems with posting paper to blog

I'm having problems with posting my paper to a blog. If anyone can help me that would be appreciated. Thanks