Courses

Classical Mythology Spring 2007

Announcements

Homework update (Friday March 30): Please note that you are expected to complete the homework assignments before the lecture on each day. For example, Monday's homework assignment should be done before Monday's lecture, not Monday night.

Course Materials

• Syllabus [DOC]
• ID list [DOC]
• Names of the Gods [DOC]

Lectures and Slides

• 3/27 [PPT]: Greek Myth as a Symbolic Network.
• 3/28 [PPT]: , Klytemnestra, Helen: the Good, the Bad, and the positively Noxious.
• 4/2 and 4/3 [PPT]: Fantasy and Reality. Monsters and the Civilized. AND The Underworld. The Arch-Sinners. Odysseus' "Rebirth."
• 4/4 [PPT]: Return of the King. Disguise, Deceit, and Revenge.
• 4/9 [PPT]: The Myth of Succession, or How not to be killed by one's son, betrayed by one's wife.
• 4/10 [PPT]: Sacrifice, Agriculture, Marriage: Prometheus and his "Gift" to mankind.
• 4/11 [PPT]: establishes his reign, order, and (definitive) stability.
• 4/16 [PPT]: Aphrodite and the dangers of eros.
• 4/17 [PPT]: Demeter, Persephone: the Grain, the Seed, and the Taste of Mortality
• 4/18 [PPT]: Apollo earns his place among the Olympians.
• 4/23 [PPT]: Trickster extraordinaire
• 4/24 [PPT]: "Stranger" from the “East”: Dionysos and the “Gift” of Release
• 4/30 [PPT]: Line of Tantalos: Cannibalism, Incest, and Crime against Kin
• 5/01 [PPT]: The Athenian Myth of Succession: Autochthons and "sons" of Athena
• 5/02 [PPT]: Arkadian Myth of Succession: Athletes, Werewolves, and Cannibals.
• 5/07 [PPT]: Minos, Pasiphae, and the Bull motif: Eros Gone Awry
• 5/08 [PPT]: Hippolytus and the Return of the Bull
• 5/09 [PPT]: and the Fear of the Mother
• 5/14 [PPT]: The Victory of the Unconscious: Oedipus, Actaeon, Tiresias
• 5/15 [PPT]: : Drunkards, Rapists, and One Good Doctor.
• 5/16 [PPT]: Medea, Procne: How (not) to get back at one's husband
• 5/21 [PPT]: . Sisyphos: How to conquer Death—and lose.
• 5/23 [PPT]: Herakles: Excess, Redemption, and Immortality. Herakles: Excess, Redemption, and Immortality

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