Humanities 103
Mythology

Section 02
Spring 2015
SLN 01710
MWF 2:10 - 3:00 pm.
Todd 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 12 -- The Power of Names; Jane Seymour in Le Jardin de Max Factor.
January 14 -- Creation Myths: Genesis.
January 16 -- Creation Myths: Native American, Mayan, cheesy filmic.

[January 19 -- Martin Luther King Holiday.]
January 21 -- Creation Myths: (Hesiod's Theogony), The Greek Gods.
January 23 -- Homer's Iliad: Books 1, 2 (lines 1-583).

January 26 -- Homer's Iliad: Books 3, [4,] 5.
January 28 -- Iliad Books 6, [7,] 8.
January 30 -- Lost Civilizations: The Aegean.

February 2 -- Iliad Books 9, 10.
February 4 -- Iliad Books 11, 12.
February 6 -- Iliad Books [13,] 14, [15].

February 9 -- Iliad Books 16, [17,] 18.
February 11 -- Iliad Books 19, [20,] 21, 22.
February 13 -- Iliad Books 23, 24.

[February 16 -- St. Nixon Holy Day.]
February 18 -- The Fall of Troy--Aeneid excerpts, Books I-II.
February 20 -- The Underworld--Aeneid excerpts, Book VI. Review.

February 23 -- Writing Essays.
February 25 -- Midterm Exam & Essay.
February 27 -- Greek Drama: Sophocles, Oedipus.

March 2 -- Greek Drama: Sophocles, Oedipus; Euripides, Medea.
March 4 -- Euripides, Medea.
March 6 -- Trojan War Mythology in Shakespeare's Lucrece.

March 9 -- Ovid, Metamorphoses Book 1; Werewolves.
March 11 -- Ovid, Metamorphoses Book 2.
March 13 -- Intermission.

[March 16 - 20 -- SPRING BREAK]

March 23 -- Ovid, Metamorphoses Books 3, 4.
March 25 -- The Shakespeare Myth.
March 27 -- African Myth: "The Woman with One Hand."

March 30 -- Ovid, Metamorphoses Books [5,] 6, 7.
April 1 -- Ovid, Metamorphoses Books 8, 9.
April 3 -- The Mythology of Love: Andreas Capellanus.

April 6 -- Ovid, Metamorphoses Book 10; Ovid Apocrypha.
April 8 -- Ovid, Metamorphoses Books 11, 12, 13.
April 10 -- Ovid, Metamorphoses Books [14,] 15.

April 13 -- Herpetophobia and Dinosaur Mythology.
April 15 -- The Line, The Cross and the Curve.
April 17 -- Review. [No formal class meeting.]

April 20 -- Mythology of Gender: Kids' Toys and Games.
April 22 -- End-of-Semester Exam & Essay.
April 24 -- Limbo.

April 27 -- Final Mythorama 2015.
April 29 -- Final Mythorama 2015.
May 1 -- Last Words: Evaluations, Eulogies.


Mythology Index


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