Heracles

Heracles: Readings and Discussion for Sept. 5

Internet Resources

Next time we will meet in the interactive computer classroom in Westside.  They tell me we will be able to log on, you can pull up your site and we can all look at it.  I don't know the room number, so just go to Westside & look for me . . . 8-0  ;-)

Our purpose will be to check out Internet resources we have come up with.  This includes 

• sites that have given you trouble (you can put it up on the screen and we can go over how to read it and what information you can get from it, or see what the problem is and how to overcome it)

• sites you find particularly helpful or well-designed (whether or not they are particularly focused on Heracles); pages that we might want to emulate, resources we could improve on)

• sites that bring up issues your groups talked about last time;

• the results of your general search (described below).

Search the web for Heracles (Hercules, Herakles) in two phases:

(1) A general search.  Try your luck with Heracles, Herakles and Hercules using any standard Internet search engine.  If there are limiting words you want to use (Greece, Rome, hero, whatever), use them.  What do you find?  Comment on the sort of sites you come up with, and note any that are particularly intriguing.  Remember that in addition to searching for the ancient Heracles, you are also searching for survivals of Heracles/Hercules in the modern world, in modern popular culture.  Hercule tires or the infamous Hercules mollusk are valid hits; note them and we may use them somehow on our web page.

(2) A search which begins from the “Internet Resources” section of our class web page.  You already know what you find from Perseus, so see if you can come up with other resources for Heracles/Hercules that are useful clearing-houses of information.

(3) From each category, choose a site (more if you like) to bring in to class.  Make a note of the web address.  Either print it out or write it accurately so we can look at the site together in class.  Your comments on how helpful this site is for our purposes will be very welcome.