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Shearer, Cynthia

 
9781882514304: The Greenleaf Guide to Ancient Literature: An Inductive Approach

Synopsis

An inductive study with detailed reading assignments, observation questions, and discussion questions. A guide for teacher and student as they read the important works of literature from Babylon and Greece and study them together. Texts studied: The Epic of Gilgamesh, The Odyssey, Oedipus Rex, and Antigone. Analysis, and discussion questions are all written from a biblical, Christian worldview.UNIT ONE Daniel 1-4: "Why should a Christian study pagan literature?" the biblical examples of Daniel in Babylon and Paul on Mars Hill in Athens.UNIT TWO The creation account from Genesis 1-11.UNIT THREE The Epic of Gilgamesh - Babylonians beliefs about creation and the nature of God.UNIT FOUR Homer's Odyssey - the Greek notions of virtue, excellence, and the hero.UNIT FIVE Sophocles' tragic trilogy, Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonnus, and Antigone.UNIT SIX modern French playwright Anouilh's retelling of Antigone, a worldview study of the modern notions of the heroic and the tragic.

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Cyndy Shearer received a BA in English (summa cum laude) from Queens College in Charlotte, NC, and an MA in English from the University of Virginia. She has taught elementary, high school, and college students, and has been a homeschooling mother since 1985. Rob and Cyndy Shearer live with their children near the town of Lebanon in middle Tennessee.

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