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Lectures
These lectures were delivered to the Association for Latin Teaching at their Summer Schools,
and are here offered for interest and reference.
Two Dimensions or Three?
The life and death of Pastoral traces the history of the pastoral mode
from its inception by Theocritus through its use by Virgil and later Latin poets both
in antiquity and during the middle ages and the renaissance, to the English pastoral
tradition, including Spenser, Shakespeare, Milton and eighteenth century versifiers,
and noting its virtual demise with the rise of a different attitude to the countryside
under Wordsworth and others up to Seamus Heaney. The question raised in the title,
two dimensions or three?, refers to the way many writers of pastoral made use of its
conventions to address other important matters, Virgil the settlement of veterans and the
dispossession of native farmers, Milton the state of the Church of England etc.
The Poetry and Power
of Pan surveys the country god as we find him in Greek mythology,
illustrating each aspect of his character and career, with quotations from poets - Greek, Latin,
French and English. The lecture deals with differing accounts of his ancestry,
the panic he inspired, his guardianship of flocks, herds and beehives, his patronage of
hunting, his strong sex drive and pursuit of Cephisa and Syrinx, the invention of panpipes
and the organ, his link with prophecy, and the legend of his death at the moment of the
crucifixion of Jesus. Finally there are two twentieth century tales of Pan, a chapter
from The Wind in the Willows and a Saki short story.
Accelerated
Latin is a practical introduction to various techniques of accelerated
learning as they can be applied to the teaching of Latin. Some of these are explained in
other pages of this site, and they include: using music, playing games, letting pupils
learn by teaching others, learning by sound as well as sight, relaxation, rhythm,
making the classroom conducive to learning.
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