TTC – Classical Mythology

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Classical Mythology is an introduction to the first characters and most vital tales of classical Greek and Roman mythology. Amongst these you’ll examine are the accounts of the creation of the world in Hesiod’s Theogony and Ovid’s Metamorphoses
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TTC – Classical Mythology

From Athena to Zeus, the characters and tales of classical mythology have been each unforgettable and profoundly influential. They’ve impressed and formed the whole lot from nice artwork and literature, to our notions of sexuality and gender roles, to the themes of in style movies and TV reveals.Classical Mythology is an introduction to the first characters and most vital tales of classical Greek and Roman mythology. Amongst these you’ll examine are the accounts of the creation of the world in Hesiod’s Theogony and Ovid’s Metamorphoses; the gods Zeus, Apollo, Demeter, Persephone, Hermes, Dionysos, and Aphrodite; the Greek Heroes, Theseus and Heracles (Hercules within the Roman model); and probably the most well-known of all classical myths, the Trojan Conflict.

How Ought to We Research Mythology?Professor Elizabeth Vandiver anchors her presentation in some fundamentals. What’s a delusion? Which societies use myths? What are a few of the issues inherent in learning classical mythology? She additionally discusses probably the most influential Nineteenth- and twentieth-century fascinated by delusion’s nature and performance, together with the psychological theories of Freud and Jung and the metaphysical method of Joseph Campbell.You think about the connection between mythology and tradition. What are the implications of the parable of Demeter, Persephone, and Hades—as recounted within the Homeric Hymn to Demeter—for the Greek view of life and loss of life, marriage and gender roles?What are the origins of classical mythology? Professor Vandiver examines similarities between the Theogony and Mesopotamian creation myths and considers the potential influences that the prehistoric Greek cultures, the Minoans and Mycenaeans, could have had on classical mythology.She additionally cautions you concerning the risks of probing for distant origins. For instance, there’s little proof, as many at the moment consider, {that a} prehistoric “mother goddess” lies on the coronary heart of mythology. This notion could merely be wishful pondering—a contemporary delusion about historical delusion.As well as, Professor Vandiver explores the challenges we face in learning mythology—which is rooted in oral custom and pre-literate society—via the literary works that recount them. How can we disentangle the unique delusion from its portrayal in Aeschylus’s The Oresteia, or Sophocles’s Oedipus the King? The extra famend the writer, the harder this activity turns into.

From the “Truth” of the Minotaur to Ovid’s Impression on ShakespeareProfessor Vandiver’s method makes classical mythology contemporary, absorbing, and infrequently shocking. The numerous such subjects you’ll think about embrace:

• The truth that most students see important flaws within the work of Joseph Campbell, top-of-the-line-recognized and hottest theorists of delusion. They consider he makes a wide range of assumptions—that delusion has a non secular which means, or that sure narrative components are the identical in all cultures—that he fails to help, or which can be extremely questionable.
• The variations between the classical notion of the gods and our ideas of what gods, or God, must be. The traditional gods didn’t create the universe or earth, weren’t omniscient or all-powerful, weren’t constantly good, and didn’t even care a lot about humanity.
• The absence of a nicely-outlined perception within the afterlife in Greek mythology and faith. Usually, it was the other of what we consider: each much less vital and fewer nice than this life.
• The small kernel of reality, as represented within the “bull-leaping” fresco of Knossos, which will lie on the coronary heart of the parable of the Minotaur, the half-man, half bull-like monster.
• Chronological inconsistencies in mythology. For instance, within the story of Theseus, characters work together who in different tales didn’t even stay on the similar time.
• The way in which numerous mythological depictions of females—the Amazons, the parable of Medea, and such monsters as Medusa and Scyllare—current Greek males’ anxiousness about girls’s energy, significantly their sexual energy. This theme is embodied in Medea’s title, which implies each “genitals” and “clever plans.”
• The Romans’ close to wholesale “borrowing” of Greek mythology, within the context of their ambivalent view of Greek tradition. They thought-about the Greeks to be higher artists, poets, and rhetoricians than they have been, but in addition noticed them as decadent, “soft,” and treacherous.
• The intensive affect of Ovid’s Metamorphoses on the works of William Shakespeare. Due to this relationship, Ovid has had an incalculable impact on English literature.

 In her last lecture, Professor Vandiver surveys facets of the large affect that classical mythology has had, and nonetheless exerts, on Western Civilization. She presents her opinions as to why that is the case. She additionally demonstrates that the traditional gods, monsters, and heroes are very a lot alive and lively at the moment in up to date beliefs in UFOs and visits from extraterrestrials and in in style leisure comparable to Star Trek and movies such because the Street Warrior and the Terminatorcollection.

A Widespread and Prime-Award Profitable Instructor“Professor Vandiver is an outstanding teacher with a clear mastery of her subject,” writes Instructing Firm buyer Barbara Brumbaugh of Auburn, Alabama. “She examines the subject in impressive depth, yet keeps the lectures interesting and accessible to non-specialists.”

Professor Vandiver is the 1998 recipient of the American Philological Affiliation’s Excellence in Instructing Award, probably the most prestigious educating award given to American classicists. She additionally teaches the associated Instructing Firm programs The Iliad of Homer, The Odyssey of Homer, and Virgil’s Aeneid.

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