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The Odyssey

by Betsy Chapman

In this Issue:

  • Going to see “The Odyssey”? Get insight from Professor Michael Sloan.
  • First-year student mailbox numbers now available to view
  • Find how to address packages to your student

We’re back to very hot weather here in Winston: today’s high is supposed to be 97, and it will be 94 throughout the weekend.

If it is as hot where you live as it is in Winston, it might be a great time to go to the movies – where the seats recline and the AC is plentiful. And it just so happens there is a big movie opening this Friday. Read on…

Going to see “The Odyssey”? Get insight from Professor Michael Sloan.

For movie buffs and/or fans of classical literature, you might be headed to see Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” this weekend. Our news team suggests that “the biggest question isn’t how Nolan pulled off the massive cinematic scale, secured the $250 million budget, or created the mythical monsters—it’s why a 2,700-year-old poem still commands this kind of attention.” So they went to one of our experts for the answer:

“According to Classics professor Michael Sloan, Odysseus’s journey is the ultimate ancient study in psychological resilience. Sloan argues that Homer’s epic endures because it is an active, living dialogue—and that in an increasingly uncertain world, wrestling with Odysseus’s complex moral dilemmas and existential crises is a model for training our own minds to be nimble and adaptable as we seek to overcome parallel difficulties in the storms of life.

Professor Sloan offers three insights into why the Odyssey still resonates in the 21st Century.”

Michael Sloan is one of those professors that students just rave about. I sat in on one of his classes maybe 15 years ago to see what all the buzz was about, and his reputation as a stellar teacher is richly deserved. His class was awesome. So for students who may not initially be considering classes in the classics, they might want to rethink that 🙂

First-year student mailbox numbers now available to view

First-year students can now find their PO Box number: students can see step-by-step instructions on Finding Your Student Mailbox Number in Workday.

Find how to address packages to your student

Parents and families (and grandparents!), this is a site you may want to bookmark for future use: instructions on how families should address mail and packages to their students.

May you coast gently towards the end of the work week, Daily Deacdom!

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