Category: Hero
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January 13, 2023 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Readers of Euripides might suspect that he disliked gods and heroes. For example, The Bacchae makes Dionysus appear like a megalomaniac. Hippolytus presents Aphrodite as a ruthless gamer. And in Heracles, the great hero returns from war only to brutally murder his family. …
May 21, 2021 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s blog. One thing that I love about Shakespeare is his ability to develop rich characters. King Lear, Hamlet, Falstaff, Henry V, Richard II: though problematic, they have vivid internal battles and complex natures. I can imagine Richard lamenting his fallen status on the beach …
March 20, 2020 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Dr. Deborah Deacon, a former Dean of Harrison Middleton University, co-authored a book entitled A Century in Uniform; Military Women in American Films, published earlier this year. Stacy Fowler and Dr. Deacon’s book dedicates a chapter to each decade (or so) since the …
April 5, 2019 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. Whiplash is a film from 2014 both written and directed by Damien Chazelle. It follows the life of Andrew (played by Miles Teller), a young, brilliant and ambitious drummer, through the trials and errors of college life. Fletcher (played by J.K. Simmons) is …
March 8, 2019 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. “My men have behaved like women, my women like men!” – Xerxes Strong women have always had a complicated relationship with history. They have been feared, reviled, loved, hated, killed, made into men, adored, and crowned (among other things). Artemisia is one such …
June 1, 2018 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. I know that Memorial Day 2018 already passed, but recently I have been rereading some of Standing Down, and felt the time was right for another moment of appreciation. War inevitably involves great trauma and loss. As the following quotes demonstrate, wartime changes …
May 11, 2018 Thanks to Dr. John Reynolds, HMU alumnus, for today’s post. How malleable the notion of science fiction is! What strange places one ends up in when exploring such a seemingly simple question: “Is Star Wars science fiction?” The question grew out of reflections on and discussions about Alissa Simon’s blog post “What …
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November 24, 2017 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. “The code word for America was our mother Ne-he-mah.” “I enjoyed serving my country and my people.” – Chester Nez Protecting our country is an act of honor and bravery. Every one of those citizens who sign up for the arduous task of …
September 29, 2017 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. “I think many of the stories that we tell ourselves as a society – the stories that encode our hopes, aspirations, and fears – preserve the traces of classical culture and myth and are part of our classical legacy.” – Professor Elizabeth Vandiver …
September 8, 2017 Thanks to Alissa Simon, HMU Tutor, for today’s post. According to Merriam-Webster, a clue is: something that guides through an intricate procedure or maze of difficulties or a piece of evidence that leads one toward the solution of a problem Clue offers one example of how language changes and is, therefore, the …
