Chryse - The Illiad

Starting in the middle of the Trojan War, The Illiad begins at the city of Chryse, where Agamemmon leads the Achaean forces in sacking the city for being aligned to Troy. Here, he captures the maidens Chryseis and Briseis, taking Chryseis for himself while giving Briseis to Achilles. After Apollo sending down a plague upon the Archaean forces, Agamemmon returns Chryseis, and in turn demands Briseis from Achilles. This begins one of the central points of The Illiad, when Achilles refuses to fight for the Greeks after being slighted in Agamemmon in this way.

Timeline: Perception and aesthetics

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This is a collaborative resource for HONS3260: Oscar Wilde: the art of perception

For this timeline, you will research a topic of your choosing (perhaps related your own major) and then select a date that represents an important moment for your research topic. Explain what happened then and why it is significant. Also be sure to explain how it relates to questions of perception or aesthetics.

I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O'Farrell - Chile

I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death is a memoir written by Maggie O'Farrell in which she recalls 17 instances in which she had nearly died throughout her life. Each chapter is named by the part of the body that was compromised in the near-death experience and the year each instance occurred is listed next to the chapter's body-part title in the Table of Contents. In Chapter 5: Neck, Maggie is in Chile as part of a week-long trip traveling around South America.

Winter Park High School, Orlando, Florida, USA - "Paper Towns" by John Green

The characters are all high schoolers and this is where they attend school. Margo is part of the "popular" group, but she wants revenge on her "friends." She enlists Quentin's help because 5/11 of her tasks need a getaway driver. The high school is very important because it is one of the reasons Margo hates her town. This is a coming of age novel and being that most of the characters involved are seniors in high school, there's that feeling of a chapter closing that is heavy throughout the novel.

Agloe, New York, USA - "Paper Towns" by John Green

Paper towns are towns added to maps to avoid plagerism; it's also reffered to as a copyright trap. The paper town in the novel where Margo is is called Agloe, New York and it is very much real. However, when looking for the town on the map below, it doesn't come up because again, it's techincally not real, but at the same time it is. Therefore, I used Rockland because it is quite close to Agloe. 

SeaWorld, Orlando, Florida, USA - "Paper Towns" by John Green

In Chapter 8 of the novel, Margo urges Quentin to break into SeaWorld with her. Margo has made a list of 11 things she wants to do and enlists Quentin's help, and part of that list, the last part actually, is breaking into SeaWorld. This whole chapter is dedicated to the adventure. Margo used satellite maps to fugure out how to sneak into the park. As they are sneaking in, Once they are in, they go about doing what they want and that is when they end up in the seal tank.

Jefferson Park, Orlando, Florida, USA - "Paper Towns" by John Green

This is the hometown and the main setting in the novel. The main character and his love interest reside in Jefferson Park (along with everyone else in the novel). It's described as a "massive subdivision, because that's what Florida does with land" (Prologue 2). It is not a remarkable town and this is important because it's the reason why Margo (the main character's love interest) decides to leave in the first place. 

Lodz, Poland- "If I Should Die Before I Wake"

This is the place where Chana is originally from. To protect herself from the Nazis and prison gaurds, she must lie about her place of origin. When asked, "You are Chana Shayevitsh, are you not? A Jew from Lodz, Poland?", she lies. Lodz is the third largest city of Poland. Just before the war, Lodz made up the second largest Jewish community in Poland. Nazis occupied this city just one week after Germany invaded Poland. Although this novel is fictional, it very accurately portrays how a victim would have to lie when asked where he or she was from. 

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