Robot

要跟上这门课程确实有一定难度。
毕竟咱们知道的时候已经错过了前面的 3讲，加上导论就是4讲。
不过，纳吉教授已经年过七旬（他是1942年生人），这门课程由他亲自主讲对我们来说也当是“时不再来”的吧。。。

目前是一个缺乏大师的时代，如果我们还能跟上趟，在这两三个月内格外辛苦也是值得的。

注册之后看了看，这门课程还是比较专业的。但是大家如果不是冲结业证书而去，我想参与其间总是会有收获的。

比如讲，我们专修民间文学，如果跟上这门课程就能很好地理解什么是“英雄叙事”，在比较研究的视野中多少还是会深化我们对英雄叙事的阐释。。。
登录之后觉得来自世界各地的学生都有不同的取向，但我们如果参与其间能否贡献一些什么呢？
我想还是中国史诗（或许英雄叙事）的多样性吧？
个人认为：大家不必去纠缠自己的古典学基础，“参与”二字可能更为重要。
毕竟不论任何一个时代都是需要故事讲述的，“英雄”或“英雄叙事”的根基所在吧？
纳吉教授的课程就在于解释何谓“英雄”，何谓今天的人类（价值取向）？
感兴趣的同学就去注册吧，我们也不是为了一纸证书。

再啰嗦一句：
去年参加了国际史诗峰会，觉得纳吉老先生真是很“可耐”，他跟平常的古典学家不一样，是有人文情怀的。

Robot

March 12, 2013
A MESSAGE ABOUT THE COHORTS

Dear participants,

The teaching staff of this course wants it to be a human and humane experience for everyone involved, and also, to the extent that individual participants wish, a social experience that fosters communities of learning around its subject, the ancient Greek hero.

Last night, unfortunately, something happened that was contrary to both of those ideals of ours. Without warning or explanation, many thousands of participants were suddenly moved out of the cohort that they had been part of and in which they had been joining discussion and into another forum.

What happened was this: the software team tried to fix an error that had placed several thousands of you in one forum (Briseis) and the rest in much smaller groups. Their thinking was that the course had not yet started, so that there was no risk. Big mistake.

We need to and are addressing the communication breakdown that caused this to happen, but we also want you to understand two things about our course.

First, we want to have the forums divided into cohorts of about 1000 students so that the staff of readers and mentors can be responsive to you and personally interact with as many of you as possible during the course. If we just had one giant forum, as other HarvardX and edX courses do, that would be next to impossible. The idea is also to make it possible for those who are less willing to engage in online conversation to feel more comfortable about doing so in a relatively smaller group. We don't know if this will work, but we definitely want to try.

Secondly, we need to let you know that we are all -- you as participants and we as staff members -- experimental subjects in this course. Even though it has been taught over many years on various platforms, the course has never been done on a scale like this. We are in adventure mode, and there will be bumps in the road as we and the software mature and develop. This is definitely exciting, but it can also produce breakdowns like this one. For instance, we can anticipate that when the course actually launches tomorrow morning at 5 am EDT, there may be problems with the servers, and the edX site may be unavailable at times. We hope that doesn't happen, and we are doing our best to be proactive and will try to warn you about such problems before they happen, but there will be problems like this, of that we can be sure, from time to time.
We dearly hope you can keep your patience with us as we proceed.

All best wishes,
Greg Nagy and Lenny Muellner

Robot

俺来搭把手，虽然不是专门研究史诗传统的人。希望大家都能帮忙。
或者通过您认为适当的方式。。。

Robot

美国时间4月8日推出第4个课时的教学内容：Updated Timeline：Hour 4 will be posted Monday, April 8。
详情请跟踪HarvardX CB22x 的课程信息。http://t.cn/zTyF9GM （需要注册才能看到的哈）

Robot

第4个课时的教学内容将于美国东部时间4月8日上午10点在线提供。Hour 4 will be available at 10:00am Eastern Time on Monday, April 8.

当前美国东部时间是夏令时EDT（3月3日至11月3日），跟北京的时差是13个小时。也就是说，今晚23:00那边更新课程内容。

网址：http://t.cn/zTyF9GM （需要注册，登录后才能看到的哈）。


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这是一门“慕课”，你知道什么是“慕课”吗？

MOOC：高等教育的危机或古希腊式的复兴?
http://www.chinafolklore.org/forum/viewthread.php?tid=34286

Robot

GregoryNagy
5 days ago
After submission of your responses to the Question Set and Close Reading Exercise, here is a general question that I would like for you to think about and to discuss with each other and with me in our online Discussion. Consider in Hour 4 Text A (Pindar Isthmian 8.56-62) the lament of the Muses about the death of Achilles, which is parallel to what we read in Hour 4 Text H about the lament of the Nereids (= the daughters of the Old One of the Sea, led by Thetis) about the death of Achilles (Odyssey xxiv 58-64). In Text H, we see that both the Muses and the Nereids (led by Thetis) lament Achilles at his funeral. So how does the lament of Thetis in Text G (Iliad XVIII 54-64), which is the text that we have just analyzed, preview the laments that both the Muses and the Nereids (led by Thetis) will sing at the funeral of Achilles?

Robot

ClaudiaFilos
4 days ago
In an effort to promote learning and interaction around the assessments, we are creating a new thread for each question set and close reading exercise. We will open the discussion thread for a given Hour's assessments when the next Hour has been posted. So since Hour 4 was just released yesterday, we have posted six discussion threads, one for each of the assessments in Hours 1-3. Within those threads you can discuss answers openly, so participants who haven't yet done the assessments shouldn't read those threads. Likewise, since new participants are free to enroll from now through late June, please do not "give away" answers on other threads.
The purpose of these threads is to generate further intellectual community among our members and to promote discussion of content. If you have technical issues with a question set or close reading exercise set, please post those concerns in the general Discussion.
Leonard Muellner, Chair of the Board of Readers
Claudia Filos, Editor of Content and Social Media

Robot

APRIL 14, 2013

As mentioned previously, Hours 1 through 5 are intended as an introduction to slow reading and to the concepts introduced in the early stages of the course. Because Hour 5 contains the most focus passages to date (13), because many participants have joined us since the course began, and because the pace will quicken beginning with hour 6, we will be releasing the videos for hour 5 next week (April 22).