Overview
This preceptorial offers support for Lutheran students reading through the Homeric and Virgilian epics as well as the Christian epics of Dante and Milton. Focused on faith-based dialogue, students will be immersed in the literary concepts relevant to these great works of literature which have stood the test of time. We will examine how these plays have influenced Western culture, as well as apply lessons learned from the readings to our own lives. This preceptorial will have once-a-week live sessions online for one hour.
Objectives
This curriculum features many objectives, including those that follow. The student will ...
- ... read the Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey, Dante’s The Divine Comedy, and Milton’s Paradise Lost.
- … analyze these epics from a Christian worldview.
- … compare and contrast various authors and works
- … grow in an understanding of Greek, Italian, and English culture and its influence on greater Western culture.
- … choose, practice, and recite selections from these works.
- … memorize and recite pertinent Scripture verses.
- … hone in on themes in these epics.
- … practice leadership skills with class discussion and prayer.
- … make life applications from lessons learned from the readings.
- … be immersed in a classically Lutheran learning dialogue.
- … participate and collaborate in a liturgical model of learning.
- … learn through leisure and contemplation.
Instructor
Mrs. Marie MacPherson is completing (summer 2026) an MA in the great books at Memoria College. She has a BA in elementary education with a certification as a Lutheran teacher in the Evangelical Lutheran Synod as well as a classical Lutheran education certificate from the Consortium for Classical Lutheran Education. As a homeschool mother with nearly two decades of experience, she has coordinated music camps, art enrichment courses, and speech teams. She is author of several books, including Teaching Your Children Chastity and a two-volume devotional entitled Meditations on the Vocation of Motherhood. Homeschool moms across America have come to Marie for advice, which finally led her to suggest to her husband that they expand their service to their neighbors by establishing Lifelong Lyceum.