From jsiegel@nimbus.ocis.temple.edu Wed Mar 8 09:40:18 2000 Received: from mxu3.u.washington.edu (mxu3.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.7]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id JAA39154 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 09:40:16 -0800 Received: from nimbus.ocis.temple.edu (root@nimbus.ocis.temple.edu [155.247.166.101]) by mxu3.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW00.02/8.9.3+UW99.09) with ESMTP id JAA28718 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 09:40:16 -0800 Received: from nimbus.temple.edu (lr911-m4.ppp.temple.edu [155.247.229.114]) by nimbus.ocis.temple.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA06027 for ; Wed, 8 Mar 2000 12:40:14 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <38C6906E.A05539A@nimbus.temple.edu> Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2000 12:39:58 -0500 From: Janice Siegel X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Temple University Computer Services} (Win98; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: classics@u.washington.edu Subject: Re: Classics and Who Wants to be a Millionaire? References: <495F81875B74D311A94200805F952E18552F29@trexchaus1.tracor.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Thanks for this Michael - I was just this minute putting my midterm exam review on line and The Apology and Crito are both on the test...I have linked this article from the midterm review and for extra credit will ask my students to identify the characteristics of Socratic method and irony prevalent in his discussion with Regis which are familiar to them from the dialogues they read. It would be interesting to see if they can compare his indictment of his own society with that of ours (you'd be surprised how much is obvious to us that escapes our students - none of my honors students fully understood "American Beauty". I am convinced it is a generational thing.) Perhaps I will award chocolate chip cookies... (and EV's story kind of tangentially reminds me of the time I was standing on line at a Dunkin Donuts and was marvelling at the intricate tatoos on the forearm of the man standing next to me. He regaled me with quite an accurate explanation of the events of Beowulf, most of which were etched into his skin in painstaking detail...) Cheers, Janice MYounger@tracor.com wrote: > For what it's worth, the following URL leads to an article in the > Austin American-Statesman yesterday depicting > Socrates as a contestant on "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?" -- > > > ttp://www.austin360.com/statesman/editions/tuesday/life_entertainment_1.html > > .