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| (Image Information: The House of the Vestal Virgins, Roman Forum. Source: TripAdvisor) |
Monday, September 7, 2015
Week 2 Review
Even though I am in the indian Epics class rather than the Myth and folklore class, the item I found really interesting from the current announcements was Bulfinch's book of mythology. This was really fun to skim through, because I went to Italy this summer and it talked about a few of the characters I had learned about. This book would have been really helpful in answering some questions I had while I was there! I would have totally downloaded and read it if I had known about it! I didn't know that Vesta was in both Roman and Greek mythology. The temple of the Vesta in the Roman Forum was one of the most fascinating things I remember from my trip to "ancient Rome".
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I am so glad you liked Bulfinch, Heather - that is one of the real "classics" of mythology as people have known the stories in America. Do you know about the awesome theoi.com website? It is the biggest and, I think, the best collection of ancient mythology sources in English all gathered in one place. it is focused on Greek myths, so Hestia is the page relevant to the Vestals:
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I feel lucky that the two classes I teach have so much overlap so that I figure it's safe to share materials with both classes at once: if people are in the Myth-Folklore class, then India is obviously an important topic... and in the Indian Epics class, it's great if people can make connections between the Indian storytelling traditions and similar kinds of stories from other parts of the world. I'm always finding ways in which what I'm working on for one class helps me with the other class! :-)