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Trips of a Lifetime
Ponder with Aristotle the nature of happiness,
virtue and work.
Experience the wrath of Achilles and live to
tell about it.
Watch with Ovid as folks become the beasts
they really are.
Quest with Sir Gawain for the elusive Green Knight.
Be a member of King Henry V's gallant band on
St. Crispin's Day.
Let Cardinal Newman help you find out why you
are here and where you are going.
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Rationale for English 2123: Odysseys
Odysseys is "about the
greatest theme of all: the act of learning,
which, though it must be mentored, is
interior and individual. It is not a mere
linear movement forward, collecting an
aggregate of information and skills.
Nor is it simply an optimistic outlook that
ignores real complications and obstacles.
Rather, learning is a genuine making,
an act of gathering and forming, by
persistence and struggle. Each act of
learning reorganizes reality, each
is an authentic creation. And, as Dorothy
Sayers' translation of the
Divine Comedy has it, 'the eye by
seeing learns to see.' As we encounter
these fictional characters in their
struggles toward wisdom, we undergo, in the
depths of our psyches, in the channels of
our minds, the same struggle. It is
acted out, at the control center, one might
say, of one's being. And by our
efforts to bring together and to understand
the conflicts from within that are
engendered by images of conflicts from
without, somehow, miraculously, we learn."
--Louise Cowan, Classic Texts
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Plato (left) with Aristotle, who holds
his Nicomachean Ethics
Part of Raphael's painting
School of Athens |
Odysseys faculty include history professor Dr.
James Hardy and English instructors Dr. Ann Martin and Mrs. Dorothy
McCaughey. Former Odysseys instructor Mrs. Christine Cowan (far right)
is with us in spirit. |
