ARCHETYPAL LITERATURE: THE STORY AS A REFLECTION OF THE SELF
Students will analyze a variety archetypal literature and examine how the archetypes are personifications of the human condition.
CLASSICAL MYTHOLOGY
Students will examine Classical mythologies and analyze the greater significance of the archetypes in these myths – to society and to modern man.
CLASSICAL PHILOSOPHY:“I THINK, THEREFORE IAM.” ~ DESCARTES
Students will examine concepts such as truth, existence, reality, and reason as defined across the ages, from Classical to modern “lovers of wisdom,” in our attempt to define our place in the universe.
CLASSICAL DRAMA
Students will analyze the archetype of the tragic hero in their analysis of Oedipus Rex.