Thursday 10/27: Ancient World Wrap Up

Zoom link for tonight's 6pm class can be found here. If you are prompted for a passcode, it is 894337

Zoom recording of tonight's class can be found here.

Read/watch for class:

• Bryan Doerries, "American Ajax," Theater of War (PDF can be found below)

• Watch: Does everyone deserve a respectful burial? How a terrorist’s body divided a city | Aeon Videos

Prepare/organize for class:

What is Doerries saying about the connections between Ajax and today's veterans and their families?

Does drama -- the telling of stories -- play a necessary role in human life? Why or why not?

Compare Antigone to Peter Stefan and others at Graham Putnam and Mahoney Funeral parlors, the undertakers in the film who prepared a respectful Muslim burial for Tamerlan Tsarnaev. What similarities do you see between them? What might be different in these situations?

Read: American Ajax