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APPC Minutes - September 19, 2023
No full textMinutes of the Academic Policy and Program Committee Meeting, September 19, 2023
Faculty Meeting Minutes – March 30, 2023
No full textMinutes of the Gettysburg College Faculty Business Meeting, March 30, 2023
Desire in the Iliad: The Force that Moves the Epic and Its Audience
No full textThis book is the first study to examine desire in the Iliad in a comprehensive way and to explain its relationship to the epic’s narrative structure and audience reception. It offers a new reading of the poem that shows how the characters’ desires, especially those of the mortal hero Achilleus and the divine king Zeus, motivate plot and keep the audience engaged with the epic until and even beyond its end. The author argues that the characters’ desires are primarily organized in narrative triangles that feature two parties in conflict over a third. A variety of desires animate these triangles, including sexual passion, longing for a lost loved one, yearning for lamentation, and aggressive desires for vengeance and status, and they are signified with terms such as erōs, himeros, pothē, menos, thumos, boulē, and eeldōr as well as through the epic’s thematic emotions of grief and anger. This book shows how the mortals’ and gods’ triangular desires together drive and shape two Iliadic plots, the main plot of Achilleus’ withdrawal from the fighting and then return to battle, and the “superplot” of the larger Trojan War story. The author also argues that these plots and their motivating desires arouse the listener’s—or reader’s—own corresponding desires: narrative desire to know and understand the Iliad’s full story, sympathetic desire for characters’ welfare, and empathetic passions, longings, and wishes. Our desires invest us in the epic narrative and their resolution brings us satisfaction.https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/books/1190/thumbnail.jp
The Development of Uniforms and Equipment in Trench Warfare From 1914-1918
Get PDFThe First World War was one of incessant destruction, but the birth of a new modernized era with an abundance of technological advancements. These advancements ranged from the introduction of the first ever tank, to the individual details that soldiers changed on their uniforms. The uniform is also a vehicle to express a soldier’s memories and experiences, preserving their story
Utilization of Propaganda Throughout the Great War: A Revolutionary Experience
Get PDFThis project delves into the impact of propaganda on countries and citizens throughout World War I. It shows how the impacts of this bloodless revolution still resonate in society today, and how it has changed the world eternally, especially with the modern usage of the internet
Leonardo’s Ancient Inspiration
Get PDFInvestigating the hidden ancient inspiration in Leonardo de Vinci’s \u27Battle of Anghiari\u27 and it’s significance to the city of Florence. How and why Leonardo chose to incorporate Greco-Roman aesthetics into his art
An Expedition to the Public Lands: Public Lands of the Mid-Atlantic Region
Get PDFThis hypothetical expedition explores the complex history and managerial challenges of four different public lands in the Mid-Atlantic region: Pinelands National Reserve, Assateague Island National Seashore, Shenandoah National Park, and Monongahela National Forest. Additionally, the conceptual ideas of nature as commodity and nature as static or unpeopled in the context of public lands will be discussed in this expedition
