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love anthology
I found a review in the London Times (Feb 9 books section) of Jeffrey Eugenides' anthology of love stories and poems, My Mistress's Sparrow is Dead:
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/
His interest was originally piqued by a Latin teacher. Who says we're not sexy?
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/
His interest was originally piqued by a Latin teacher. Who says we're not sexy?
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Comment by Breeshia Turner on May 7, 2009 at 3:00pm - Haha, that she did do! Getting our attention was one of her many talents (although it wasn't hard to do with Catulus--he's pretty explicit...Catullus #21 and #32 come to mind immediately haha!).
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Comment by Ann Martin on May 6, 2009 at 4:01pm - Hi, Bree! Yes, "passer mortuus est." Obviously your teacher succeeded in maintaining your attention!
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Comment by Breeshia Turner on May 6, 2009 at 1:41pm
- The poem is by Catulus, right? I remember learning about him in Latin 2. Quite explicit (well, at least our teacher made it so. Perhaps it was the only way to maintain our attention).
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Comment by Laura Gibbs on February 9, 2008 at 6:15pm -
My students LOVE love stories.
There's even the occasional love story in Aesop - my favorite is the Lion in Love:
http://aesopus.pbwiki.com/barlow109
It can definitely get a good discussion going. It makes a good pair with the cat turned into a woman (originally told in the ancient world as a weasel turned into a woman, since they kept weasels, rather than cats, as mousers in their houses):
http://aesopus.pbwiki.com/barlow071
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