In volume 1 of our course textbook, Davis, Harrison, Johnson, Smith, and Crawford (the editors of the textbook) point out that the ancient Roman stories in Ovid\u2019s Metamorphoses make us aware of \u201cthe violence of natural and historical processes of change and the fragility of life\u201d (Davis et al. 1268-69). Then, in volume 2 of our course textbook, the editors introduce St. Augustine\u2014a key figure in Western history\u2014whose life and writings have been viewed as a bridge between ancient Roman culture and medieval Christian culture. For St. Augustine, the fragility of life is grasped through an awareness that we need to be saved from our own violent selves by calling upon not a Roman god, but the one Christian god. After reading the assigned excerpts from Ovid\u2019s Metamorphoses and The Confessions by St. Augustine, focus on the need to make violence powerless as you respond to both of the following prompts:<\/p>\n
\u2022 First, in Ovid\u2019s Metamorphoses, focus on one story that is provided after \u201cThe Flood\u201d excerpt. So, you can choose \u201cApollo and Daphne\u201d or \u201cThe Story of Orpheus and Eurydice,\u201d or \u201cThe Story of Pygmalion.\u201d In your chosen story, focus on a character you are frightened for\u2014that is, a character you are afraid will fall into ruin or destruction if he or she pursues the violent, destructive desires of his or her heart. Then, write post composed of four (4) complete sentences where you use your most persuasive voice to shout out warnings to your chosen character\u2014making sure to express your fears and anxieties about your chosen character\u2019s imminent destruction. Don\u2019t forget to refer to and cite a specific idea from the assigned reading from our textbook from Ovid\u2019s Metamorphoses.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Second, in The Confessions by St. Augustine, locate \u201cThe Stolen Fruit\u201d chapter where St. Augustine tells us that when he was sixteen years old, he \u201cloved to go down to death,\u201d and he \u201cloved [his] fault itself\u201d (St. Augustine 79). After that, read the preceding section where he talks about how his father felt about him as an immoral, unprincipled young man. Then, write a post composed of four (4) sentences where you use your most persuasive voice to shout out warnings to St. Augustine before he takes off with his friends to the pear orchard\u2014making sure to express your fears and anxieties about what will happen to St. Augustine\u2019s soul if he pursues the course of continuing to love fault itself and to love the path to death. You can pretend, if you like, to be the good father St. Augustine never had. Don\u2019t forget to refer to a specific idea from the assigned reading from our textbook from St. Augustine\u2019s work, The Confessions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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