LITERARY ARCHETYPES

OLD ENGLISH TIME PERIOD (1066 - 1487)

 

The Archetypal Questing/Mythic Hero

• Joseph Campbell, "The Hero," from The Power of the Myth: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSWcIcOcDvU

• The Hero Abridged: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJwPIiUPfK4&list=PLR6rytGOJn7mjaDchlzMSCyslMc2hdIxm

 

 

The Iliad 

Film Review

• Patroclus fights Hector: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Cz7u8RPYKo&list=TL2rOosqlKQ3k

• Dance Battle for Patroclus : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ygRholyh5g

• Priam and Achilles: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zGFVTYn8Yvk

 

Text and Analysis

• The Iliad Full Text: http://classics.mit.edu/Homer/iliad.html

• Heroic Code and the Iliad: http://www.public.iastate.edu/~gbetcher/353/ilhero.htm

• Homeric Ethics: http://www.uvm.edu/~jbailly/courses/homeric%20ethics.html

• Modern Relevance: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=14682035

• STUDENT SITES: https://sites.google.com/a/mail.fcboe.org/greekpeoplemeet/

 

Beowulf

Anglo-Saxons

• Know background from class notes

 

Film:

• Anglo-Saxon Intro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wdmtgb4a4q4

• Common Historical Misconceptions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYzfKiIWN4g

• History of the Anglo-Saxon Invasion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2EAwokOFjvA

• Beowulf Background: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uI230HyX1DA

• Animated Beowulf: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QKjcoFZmKuA

 

Beowulf Study Sites

• Electronic Beowulf, Index and Guide: http://ebeowulf.uky.edu/studyingbeowulfs/overview

 

Anglo-Saxon Poetry

• Elegiac Style: "The Seafarer," The Wanderer," "The Wife's Lament": http://www.stjohns-chs.org/english/anglo-saxon/colleenanglosaxon.html

 

The Advent of Christianity into England

• from Background Notes and Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People

• "Caedmon's Hymn': http://public.wsu.edu/~delahoyd/medieval/caedmon.html

• "Caedmon's Hymn": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29v_adW9dn0

 

Review Game:

 

Unit Review Game: http://www.superteachertools.net/jeopardyx/jeopardy-review-game.php?gamefile=1412684525