Humanities 103
Mythology

Section 02
Spring 2016
SLN 02324
MWF 2:10 - 3:00 pm
Todd Hall 230
Dr. Michael Delahoyde
Avery Hall 355 -- Washington State University
Hours: MWF 9:00-10:00, and by appointment.
Phone: 509-335-4832
E-mail: delahoyd@wsu.edu


Mythology
Syllabus


January 11 -- The Power of Names; Jane Seymour in Le Jardin de Max Factor.
January 13 -- Creation Myths: Genesis.
January 15 -- Creation Myths: Native American, Mayan, cheesy filmic.

[January 18 -- Martin Luther King Holiday.]
January 20 -- Creation Myths: (Hesiod's Theogony), The Greek Gods.
January 22 -- Homer's Iliad: Books 1, 2 (lines 1-583).

January 25 -- Homer's Iliad: Books 3, [4,] 5.
January 27 -- Iliad Books 6, [7,] 8.
January 29 -- Iliad Books 9, 10.

February 1 -- Iliad Books 11, 12.
February 3 -- Lost Civilizations: The Aegean.
February 5 -- Iliad Books [13,] 14, [15]; Lost Episode.

February 8 -- Iliad Books 16, [17,] 18.
February 10 -- Iliad Books 19, [20].
February 12 -- Iliad Books 21, 22.

[February 15 -- St. Nixon Holy Day.]
February 17 -- Iliad Books 23, 24.
February 19 -- The Fall of Troy--Aeneid excerpts, Books I-II.

February 22 -- The Underworld--Aeneid excerpts, Book VI. Review.
February 24 -- Writing Essays.
February 26 -- Midterm Exam & Essay.

February 29 -- Greek Drama: Sophocles, Oedipus.
March 2 -- Sophocles, Oedipus; Euripides, Medea.
March 4 -- Euripides, Medea.

March 7 -- Ovid, Metamorphoses Intro; Lycanthropy.
March 9 -- Ovid, Metamorphoses Books 1, 2.
March 11 -- Intermission.

[March 14 - 18 -- SPRING BREAK]

March 21 -- Ovid, Metamorphoses Books 3, 4, [5,] 6.
March 23 -- Mythology of Gender: Kids' Toys and Games.
March 25 -- No Class.

March 28 -- Ovid, Metamorphoses Books 7, 8, 9.
March 30 -- Intermission.
April 1 -- Ovid, Metamorphoses Books 10, 11, 12; Ovid Apocrypha.

April 4 -- The Mythology of Love: Andreas Capellanus.
April 6 -- Ovid, Metamorphoses Books 13, [14,] 15.
April 8 -- The Line, The Cross and the Curve.

April 11 -- The Shakespeare Myth.
April 13 -- Trojan War Mythology in Shakespeare's Lucrece.
April 15 -- Mythology of Personality and Depression.

April 18 -- Review.
April 20 -- End-of-Semester Exam & Essay.
April 22 -- Limbo.

April 25 -- Final Mythorama 2016.
April 27 -- Final Mythorama 2016.
April 29 -- Last Words: Evaluations, Eulogies.


Mythology Index


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delahoyd@wsu.edu
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