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hermionesviolin mentions Songs Inspired By Literature, by "Artists For Literacy." This reminds me that I had once thought that if I got nothing else out of the Lit Hum syllabus, at least it ought to be good for a mix tape. However, after Led Zeppelin's "Achilles' Last Stand," "Tales Of Brave Ulysses" by Cream, and Tom Lehrer's "Oedipus Rex," the idea sort of petered out.

(As a preemptive strike in my defense, I'd like to point out that I merely used the site that came up first in my Google search on "lit hum syllabus.")

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dherblay.livejournal.com

Indeed, I read The Golden Ass in Lit Hum -- I did a presentation on it -- though I don't remember it being assigned to anyone not in my actual class.

I went through this whole Milesian Tales phase because of it.

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nzraya.livejournal.com

Well, you are cooler than I. I did the second semester off-sequence (i.e., in the fall) so we didn't have time for no golden asses -- nor yet that Don Quixote. And when I taught the thing we did Ovid's Ars Amatoria, which, come to think of it, could be metonymically related to The Golden Ass via the intermediate trope of the informal posterior, as orthographically conceptualised by the British and Americans respectively, although really ... not.