Elizabeth Beese

Elizabeth Beese - Joke to break the ice

• The importance of being art.
• Metamorphoses of Ovid and children (the works influenced by) got into a fight, who would win?
• The power of art is huge
• small reactants = large products

Kari Bowles

Kari Bowles - Personal Epic Poem

• In and Out Burger (It is worth the wait!)
• San Bernadino, CA with her grandfather and sister who worked at Disneyland in a POS car, Beatles marathon on the radio, went through the twelve labors (trials), but succeeded in the end to complete her epic poem.

Maggie Casey

Maggie Casey -

• White(maiden), Red(mother), and Dark Goddess(crone) (thanks for the cookies)
• Psyche (maiden then mother)
• Crone - Golden Ass (Bandit woman)

Steve Liss

Steve Liss - Art is a reflection and it lies

• Rembrant self portrait (50), 6 etchings and several scetches.
• Narcissus & Echo
• Man is a recursion of matter
• art is man reflecting himself in matter
• Pygmalion ----> Narcissus
• the creator of art perceives that it has a voice, but it is the voice of the artist.

Samantha Clanton

Samantha Clanton - Narrative how the myths come alive in her life.

• Fate made her late.
• She was abducted by Sutter, whisked away in a white chariot to the Yellowstone
• They were floating down the river, Sutter had a sudden anagnorsis, they were lost
• Samantha felt like Phaethon 15 miles down the river, cold, it was windy, and she was hungry.
• Tiresias = John (stranger, not another character from class) saved them by taking them back to the car.
• They were rewarded with milkshakes.
• Samantha is glad that she has Sutter to make a Scapegoat.

Sutter Stremmel

Sutter Stremmel - degrees of separation between Persephone and a jar of pickles.

• Sparagmos to Sybil put in a jar that made Sutter think of pickles.
• This is too in depth a thing for me to write.

Cassi Mari Clampitt

Cassi Mari Clampitt - The many rapes of Zeus

• Alcemene
• Leto
• Diane
• Europa
• Io (Priestess of Hera)
• Maia
• Semele (Consented)
• Ganymede (not raped, abducted to become Zeus's cup bearer.
• Callisto (turned to bear) - Ursa Major and son is Ursa Minor (big and little dipper).
• 150 known rapes of Zeus.
• Gods can do anything that they want.
• Zeus + Leta = Helen = War = Literature = Us here!

Dustin Cichosz

Dustin Cichosz - Narrative of how the past possesses the present.

• Lysistrata - roommate's girl friend won't have sex with him unless he gets her a burrito.
• Bacchae - Drank and turned into Lucius (Ass) , but it wasn't his fault because he was possessed by Dionysus.
• Symposium - talking about love when you would not ordinarily. (Loose Lips...)
• Later that night he experienced a mild form of Sparogmos.

Carly Parelius

Carly Parelius - Memory - the collective unconscious.

• Coincidental - song playing when you have been thinking of it.
• Collective experience of humankind - stories that we keep coming back to
• Synchronicity

Clark

Clark - this is you, this is you in love!

• Love will tear us apart.
• Love destroys boundaries.
• Phantom itches - Antigone's loss of a love one is equivocal to feeling an arm no longer there.
• Lysistrata - how much they need women
• Rape
• Lack of trust & communication destroys love.
• Psyche - Lucius (beauty unpolluted by mortality = Isis).
• Real freedom - total acceptance, become one with all things.

Katie Crystal

Katey L. Crystal - How the past possesses her life today.

• Humanity is a single body with the same concerns.
• Dionysus, Athena (diciplined war) : Gods and Goddesses that she sees within herself
• Katey's mom = Demeter, Montana = Hades, however, Katey chose to leave her mother to seek Haydes.
• When she was looking at colleges, she fell in love with Montana.
• Katey wants to inspire others, be immortalized as a Muse
• Art is the most important of ways to immortalize.

Douglas Fejes

Doug Fejes - Pythagoras

• Not transformed physicaly.
• Capstone of Ovid's Metamophoses.
• Added depth that the other stories lacked.
• Transformed the reader.
• Framed - speech on veganism
• life is never ending
• is the most meaningful story

Sarah Flemming

Sarah Flemming - Women who get carried away.

• Persephone - from the Hymn to Demeter
• Europa - Ovid
• Psyche - Transformations of Lucius.
• Agave - Carried away by the madness of Dionysus - Bacchae
• Sarah - Dr. Sexon says that all marriage is abduction.

Ross Jensen

Ross Jensen - The immortal Presense of Socrates

• Gain knowledge and immortality
• Didn't write anything down, and yet Socrates is still immortal.

Socrates -

Recipe:

• 1 cup Plato - most comprehensive works recording Socrates.
• 1 Tbsp. Aristotle - not biographical at all
• 1 tsp. Xenophon - only delves into the ethical issues.
• Pinch of Aristophanes
• Everything taken with a grain of salt.

Info:

• accused of corrupting the youth
• said he should be rewarded, not punished
• Jesus & Aristotle were both influencial, didn't write anything down, and were martyrs.
• Socrates present in the psyche of all.

Sereta Heser

Sereta Heser - The Doors, Jim Morrison's Connection to Dionysus

• Mesculin
• Openmindedness and debauchery
• New Experiences
• Father, yes son, I ant to kill you....
• Morrison was called Dionysus by friends
• Tragedy of a young death.
• To Become classic, you have to envoke the classics.

John Horner

John Horner - Correlation between Mythology and Science Fiction

Dune(Book, film)

• priorities of Gods and Goddesses are different than those of humans.
• Superman is an example of a godlike character from science fiction.
• Kal-El means vessel of God in Aramaic.

Danielle Heinle - Individual Presentation

Danielle Heinle - The Triple Goddess

• 3-in-1 (sounds vaguely familiar.)

• Crone - Mother - Maiden
• Hecate - Demeter - Persephone (Kore)
• Death - Love - Birth

• Poem of the triple goddess from a pagan's perspective:
  
  THE TRIPLE GODDESS :
  
  As the Maiden, I saw through your eyes as a child
  Spring rains, green forests, and animals wild!
  I saw you run freely on the Earth with bare feet!
  I watched as you danced in the winds, blowing free!
  I was there as you grew, getting stronger each day!
  I brought you rainbows, chasing grey skies away!
  I was there in your laughter - I was there in your tears!
  I was the acceptance you gained from your peers!
  I saw your first love and I felt your first blush,
  As passion first stirred in the night's gentle hush!
  I am there with you always in the fresh morning dew!
  I bring you the crispness of beginnings anew.
  As the Mother, I bore all the labor distress
  Of birthing your child, and I felt the caress
  Of your hand on the face of the new life so dear.
  I heard its first cry, and I eased your fear!
  I provided the milk which you fed from your breast
  Till the baby grew strong, and with health it was blessed.
  As she took her first step, I was there in your smile!
  I was there while you nurtured your beautiful child!
  On the first day of school, when the doors opened wide
  I was there in your fear - I was there in your pride.
  I am there with you always in the bright full of moon!
  I bring you fertility - abundance in bloom.
  As the Crone, I brought blessings of wisdom with age
  [Wisdom not found by the turn of a page].
  I was there as you taught the correct way to live:
  To love and to trust - to take and to give!
  I was there in the twinkle of your aged eye!
  I was there in your thoughts of the years flying by!
  I was there when you taught the Mysteries of old!
  I was there in the fire warming you in the cold!
  In the weariness of age, I was there with you, too...
  I brought well-deserved rest and peace unto you!
  I am there with you always in the darkness of night!
  I complete your life cycle, guiding you toward the light.
  Maid, Mother and Crone - We are all One -
  Yet We are all separate, as each role is done.
  We do not leave you - We're always there
  As you walk through this life with your worries and cares;
  As you dance in the spiral, We live inside -
  Deep in your spirit - where nothing can hide!
  No matter your path, no matter it's length -
  We give you courage and We give you strength.
  We are there to support you every hour of day
  And deep in the night, when dreams take you away.
  Our gifts We give freely, for you are our Child...
  Yes, We are the Lady: Wise, Pure, and Mild!
  -Kalioppe-
  
• Dr. Sexon recommends Robert Graves' The White Goddess
• Psyche & Eros : Psyche = Maiden, Aphrodite = Mother, and who is the Crone? or is the child a maiden?

Here is some stuff that I found. It is not from the presentation, and as I have blogged on this topic before, it might be a bit repetitive. The Greeks use the three the most, having many representations of triple Deities.

The concept of the Great Goddess as The Triple Goddess, young woman (Maiden), birth-giving matron (Mother), and an old woman (Crone), dates from the earliest ages of mankind. (These attributes were also ascribed to the three phases of the moon; the Maiden, which corresponds to the new moon; the Mother, which corresponds to the full moon; and the Crone, which is the waning moon. These aspects have been used for centuries by many civilizations.) This concept was embraced by many different mythologies from many different parts of the world. The Vikings had the Norns (Urdu/Verdandi/Skuld), the Romans had the Fortunae (Concordia/Salus/Pax), the druids had Diana Triformis, the Greeks had the Moirae, Graeae, Horae, etc.

Maiden : The Maiden aspect represents enchantment, inception, expansion, the female principle, the promise of new beginnings, youth, excitement, and a carefree erotic aura. She is innocent in some ways, but also a seductress who recognizes the power of her sexuality. Maiden goddesses include: Anatha, Brigid, Nimue, Kore, Persephone, Gerd, Caer, Blodeuwedd. Her traditional color is white.

Mother : The Mother is ripeness, fertility, fulfillment, stability, and power. Mother is ripe, full-breasted, at the peak of her womanly powers. She is the one who tenderly rocks the baby, but she is also the lioness who hunts to feed her offspring and will fight to the death to protect them. Mother goddesses include: Aa, Ambika, Anahita, Asherah, Ceres, Coatlicue, Danu, Demeter, Hathor, Ishtar, Isis, Lakshmi, Luonnotar, Nintu, Sheng-Mu. Her traditional color is red.

Crone : The Crone is wisdom, retrenchment, repose, and compassion. She is old age, experience, accumulated wisdom and death. She is the gateway to Death, and the guide to Rebirth. Crone goddesses include: Annis, Baba Yaga, Cailleach, Greine, Hel, Maman Brigitte, Oya, Sedna, Skuld, Takotsi, Toci. Her color is black.Goddesses who embody the triple aspect within themselves include: Brigid (Ireland/Celtic), Carmenta or Carmentis (Roman), Hekate or Hecate (Greek/Anatolia), Helice (Greek), Kali (India), the Morrigan (Ireland/Celtic).