MODULE 6: ITHACA
Assignments
ASSIGNMENT 1
#1 Read the final chapters of the Odyssey detailing the return of Odysseus to Ithaka, the re-encounter with Penelope, and the slaughter of the suitors. Listen to some of Sarah Kirland Snider’s song cycle “Penelope.” http://www.wnyc.org/story/316705-new-sounds-live-penelope-songs/
Note how she applies pop, rock and sentimental ballad, as well as classical orchestration, to her composition. Now it is time for you to explore a pop idiom of your own. You will write a poem that experiments with high and low diction in the pursuit of a noble theme. The meeting anew of Odysseus and Penelope is not your normal spousal reconnection. Odysseus is the King of Ithaka, returned to vindicate himself, slaughter one hundred men, and reclaim his crown. Penelope has endured humiliation and longing for two decades, while weaving and unweaving at her loom. The trick is to talk about a common situation in an uncommon context without trivializing it. Choose a domestic theme, and make it eternal.
ASSIGNMENT 2
#2 Telemachus, after a long wait in which he never knew his father, was suddenly called upon, when Odysseus returned, to step up and help him slay the suitors. Write a poem on the subject of a homecoming, in rhymed, metered couplets, titled “Dead Weight Bliss.” Take whatever inspiration you can from this song and video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y41Z3Qo-ypk
ASSIGNMENT 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjPgeXHjM9k
Write about anything.
Ambient music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wWjgsepyE8I&list=PLMFmJLFhkDPG2tHFRin_Ecoqbg7kDxYr_&index=5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D77_c94R9Go&index=6&list=PLMFmJLFhkDPG2tHFRin_Ecoqbg7kDxYr_
Act 1
ambient music 1: https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PLMFmJLFhkDPG2tHFRin_Ecoqbg7kDxYr_¶ms=OAFIAVgB&v=HhqdQZGJJXU&mode=NORMAL
ambient music 2: https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PLMFmJLFhkDPG2tHFRin_Ecoqbg7kDxYr_¶ms=OAFIAVgE&v=9qk-vZ1qicI&mode=NORMAL
Act 2
ambient music 1: https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PLMFmJLFhkDPG2tHFRin_Ecoqbg7kDxYr_¶ms=OAFIAVgF&v=wWjgsepyE8I&mode=NORMAL
ambient music 2: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BnmglWHoVrk
Act 3
ambient music: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ujsCRw-eA0o
ambient music 1: https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PLMFmJLFhkDPG2tHFRin_Ecoqbg7kDxYr_¶ms=OAFIAVgB&v=HhqdQZGJJXU&mode=NORMAL
ambient music 2: https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PLMFmJLFhkDPG2tHFRin_Ecoqbg7kDxYr_¶ms=OAFIAVgE&v=9qk-vZ1qicI&mode=NORMAL
Act 2
ambient music 1: https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PLMFmJLFhkDPG2tHFRin_Ecoqbg7kDxYr_¶ms=OAFIAVgF&v=wWjgsepyE8I&mode=NORMAL
ambient music 2: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BnmglWHoVrk
Act 3
ambient music: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ujsCRw-eA0o
PART 1 INTERACTIVES
PART 1
GRAPHICS:
1-Opening message
1-Assignment graphic scroll
3-quotes
1-hedge texture
1-tree-line long graphic
1-grass texture
1-Axe with hole
1-3D greek structure
1-museum portal
Audio:
-ambient music 1: https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PLMFmJLFhkDPG2tHFRin_Ecoqbg7kDxYr_¶ms=OAFIAVgB&v=HhqdQZGJJXU&mode=NORMAL
-ambient music 2: https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PLMFmJLFhkDPG2tHFRin_Ecoqbg7kDxYr_¶ms=OAFIAVgE&v=9qk-vZ1qicI&mode=NORMAL
-discovery sound
OPENING MESSAGE: Find 12 axes and bring them to the front of the temple to collect your reward.
QUOTES (on gravestone):
GRAPHICS:
1-Opening message
1-Assignment graphic scroll
3-quotes
1-hedge texture
1-tree-line long graphic
1-grass texture
1-Axe with hole
1-3D greek structure
1-museum portal
Audio:
-ambient music 1: https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PLMFmJLFhkDPG2tHFRin_Ecoqbg7kDxYr_¶ms=OAFIAVgB&v=HhqdQZGJJXU&mode=NORMAL
-ambient music 2: https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PLMFmJLFhkDPG2tHFRin_Ecoqbg7kDxYr_¶ms=OAFIAVgE&v=9qk-vZ1qicI&mode=NORMAL
-discovery sound
OPENING MESSAGE: Find 12 axes and bring them to the front of the temple to collect your reward.
QUOTES (on gravestone):
- 'If only the gods would give me such strength as he has to take revenge on the suitors for their overbearing oppression. They force their way upon me and recklessly plot against me. No, the gods have spun out no such strand of prosperity for me and my father. Now we must even have to endure it.
- ‘But if you are determined to murder me with the sharp bronze, then that would be my wish also, since it would be far better than to have to go on watching forever these shameful activities, guests being battered about, or to see you rudely mishandling the serving all about the beautiful palace.’
- ‘Suddenly you have changed, my friend, from what you were formerly; your skin is no longer as it was, you have other clothing. Surely you are one of those gods who hold the high heaven. Be gracious, then: so we shall give you favored offerings and golden gifts that have been well wrought. Only be merciful.’
PART 2 INTERACTIVES
PART 1
GRAPHICS:
1-Opening message
1-Assignment graphic scroll
3-quotes
1-target dummy
1-target bull's eye
1-Bow
1-quiver of arrows
1-Axe with hole
1-3D greek structure
1-museum portal
Audio:
-ambient music 1: https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PLMFmJLFhkDPG2tHFRin_Ecoqbg7kDxYr_¶ms=OAFIAVgF&v=wWjgsepyE8I&mode=NORMAL
1ambient music 2: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BnmglWHoVrk
-discovery sound
-hitting target sound
OPENING MESSAGE: Shoot each practice dummies 3 times to set up the axes. Then shoot an arrow through all the axes' eyelets and hit the target. Collect your reward.
QUOTES (on gravestone):
GRAPHICS:
1-Opening message
1-Assignment graphic scroll
3-quotes
1-target dummy
1-target bull's eye
1-Bow
1-quiver of arrows
1-Axe with hole
1-3D greek structure
1-museum portal
Audio:
-ambient music 1: https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PLMFmJLFhkDPG2tHFRin_Ecoqbg7kDxYr_¶ms=OAFIAVgF&v=wWjgsepyE8I&mode=NORMAL
1ambient music 2: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BnmglWHoVrk
-discovery sound
-hitting target sound
OPENING MESSAGE: Shoot each practice dummies 3 times to set up the axes. Then shoot an arrow through all the axes' eyelets and hit the target. Collect your reward.
QUOTES (on gravestone):
- Eurymachos, all my excellence, my beauty and figure, were ruined by the immortals at that time when the Argives took ship for Ilion, and with them went my husband, Odysseus. If he were to come back to me and take care of my life, then my reputation would be more great and splendid.
- But come, handmaidens, give him a wash and spread a couch for him here, with bedding and coverlets and with shining blankets, so that he can keep warm as he waits for dawn of the golden throne, and early tomorrow you shall give him a bath, anoint him, so that he can sit in the hall beside Telemachos and expect to dine there; and it will be the worse for any of those men who inflicts heart-wasting annoyance on him; he will accomplish nothing here for all his terrible spite...
- So I wish that they who have their homes on Olympos would make me vanish, or sweet-haired Artemis strike me, so that I could meet the Odysseus I long for, even under the hateful earth, and not have to please the mind of an inferior husband. Yet the evil is endurable, when one cries through the days, with heart constantly troubled, yet still is taken by sleep in the nights; for sleep is oblivion of all things, both good and evil, when it has shrouded the eyelids. But now the god has sent the evil dreams thronging upon me. For on this very night there was one who lay by me, like him as he was when he went with the army, so that my own heart was happy. I thought it was no dream, but a waking vision.
PART 3 INTERACTIVES
PART 1
GRAPHICS:
1-Opening message
1-Assignment graphic scroll
3-quotes
1-Bow
1-quiver of arrows
1-Suitors
1-3D greek structure
1-museum portal
Audio:
-ambient music: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ujsCRw-eA0o
-discovery sound
-scream of pain
OPENING MESSAGE: Find 12 axes and bring them to the front of the temple to collect your reward.
QUOTES (on gravestone):
GRAPHICS:
1-Opening message
1-Assignment graphic scroll
3-quotes
1-Bow
1-quiver of arrows
1-Suitors
1-3D greek structure
1-museum portal
Audio:
-ambient music: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ujsCRw-eA0o
-discovery sound
-scream of pain
OPENING MESSAGE: Find 12 axes and bring them to the front of the temple to collect your reward.
QUOTES (on gravestone):
- ‘You dogs, you never thought I would any more come back from the land of Troy, and because of that you despoiled my household, and forcibly took my serving women to sleep beside you, and sought to win my wife while I was still alive, fearing neither the immortal gods who hold the wide heaven, nor any resentment sprung from men to be yours in the future. Now upon you all the terms of destruction are fastened.’
- Now the choice has been set before you, either to fight me or run, if any of you can escape death and its spirits. But I think not one man will escape from sheer destruction.'
- And now Athene waved the aegis, that blights humanity, from high aloft on the roof, and all their wits were bewildered; and they stampeded about the hall, like a herd of cattle set upon and driven wild by the darting horse fly
CONCEPTS AND INSPIRATIONS
Links to other inspirations:
https://www.pinterest.com/fons87/travel-posters/
https://www.pinterest.com/grif4545/greece/
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/537617274237769683/
https://www.pinterest.com/fons87/travel-posters/
https://www.pinterest.com/grif4545/greece/
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/537617274237769683/