My Personal Curriculum for September
Bandwagon officially jumped. How could I not? Literature: (Finally finish!) The Iliad with marginalia & commonplacing. Milton (Ai) was kind enough to make a list of coordinating studies. I shared them all here in case you're interesting. The ones I will be including this month are starred. Poems Inspired by The Iliad * Christopher Logue, War Music (modern reimagining of The Iliad in poetry) Alice Oswald, Memorial (a poem focused on the deaths of characters in The Iliad ) * W. H. Auden, “The Shield of Achilles” (contrasts Homer’s shield with modern imagery) Alexander Pope’s Translation of The Iliad (poetic rendering that’s a work of art in itself) Art & Sculpture* - All “The Wrath of Achilles” by Peter Paul Rubens (1630s painting, explosive emotion) “Achilles Lamenting the Deat...