Notes, February 18, 2009 - TEST NEXT

***Don't forget: Test on Friday!!!***

Remember the muses and their locations in the classroom.

• Thermostat - Erato, muse of erotic poetry
• Chalkboard - Clio, muse of history
• Overhead screen - Urania, muse of astronomy
• "Quite" desk - Thalia, muse of comedy
• Projector - Polyhymnia, muse of sacred songs
• Brown desk - Terpsichore, muse of dance
• Bulletin board - Calliope, muse of epic poetry
  
• Snowman - Euterpe, muse of song
• Funny "f" - Melpomene, muse of tragedy (remember Mel Gibson and the pomegranate; it's a tragedy they disappeared)

In Kane, "Wisdom of the Myth Tellers"

1. Moon bone (repetition)
2. property
3. agriculture
4. practical
   
5. white berries
6. caribou, frogs
7. myth - the song the earth sings to itself
8. (Check out Brian Larscheid's blog Memory Orgasm for the terms expanded; also Robert Loomis's Oral Traditions)
   

Ong, "Orality and Literacy"

1. primary orality
2. secondary orality
3. chirographic - writing culture
4. typographic - print cultur
5. p. 72 - distinction between vision and sound
6. Plato's denunciation of books, p. 79; also Yates, p. 38

Yates, "The Art of Memory"

1. Simonedes - story of the banquet
2. the book moves from rhetoric to ethics to cosmos
3. St. Augustin, p. 47

Study questions

1. liberal arts - GGRAMAD >>> Geometry, Grammar, Rhetoric, Arithmetic, Music, Astronomy, Dialectic
2. neoplatism - influence of Plato after Plato, dealing with mysticism
3. importance of February 20 - John Nay's birthday
4. anamnesis - opening gates of recollection - we have forgotten everything
   
5. 1600 - Bruno was burned at the stake
6. parataxis - string list of words together using "and"
7. bicameral - brain is split into two parts - look up in Ong in the index, p. 29, right hemisphere produces uncontrollable voices attributed to the gods, left hemisphere processes that into speech
8. esoteric - secret, private
9. imagination is a one-hour photo for memory
10. Shahar Azad - "1,001 Arabian Nights" - represents story-telling
11. differences between artificial and natural memory - Yates
12. Collective unconcious and personal unconsious
13. writing happens outside the mind - Pheadrus
14. March 17, St. Patric's Day, Dr. Sexson gives blood, green blood
15. 3 epithets - brave soldier, sturdy oak, beautiful pricess; also, keen, kenning Ben, Kate of the Beautiful Eyes