Humanities 103
Mythology
Section 02
Spring 2018
SLN 03090
MWF 11:10 - 12:00 pm
PEB 136
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
January 8 -- The Power of Names; Jane Seymour in Le Jardin de Max Factor.
January 10 -- Creation Myths: Genesis.
January 12 -- Creation Myths: Native American, Mayan, cheesy filmic.[January 15 -- Martin Luther King Jr. Day.]
January 17 -- Creation Myths: (Hesiod's Theogony), The Greek gods.
January 19 -- Homer's Iliad: Books 1.January 22 -- Homer's Iliad: Books 2 (lines 1-583), 3, [4].
January 24 -- Iliad Books 5, 6, [7].
January 26 -- Iliad Books 8, 9.January 29 -- Iliad Books 10, 11.
January 31 -- Lost Civilizations: The Aegean.
February 2 -- Iliad Books 12, [13,] 14, [15].February 5 -- Iliad Books 16, [17,] 18.
February 7 -- Iliad Books 19, [20], Lost Episode.
February 9 -- Iliad Books 21, 22.February 12 -- Iliad Books 23, 24.
February 14 -- The Fall of Troy--Aeneid excerpts, Books I-II.
February 16 -- The Underworld--Aeneid excerpts, Book VI. Review.[February 19 -- St. Nixon Holy Day.]
February 21 -- Writing Essays.
February 23 -- Midterm Exam & Essay.February 26 -- Greek Music and Drama: Sophocles, Oedipus.
February 28 -- Sophocles, Oedipus; Euripides, Medea.
March 2 -- Euripides, Medea.March 5 -- Ovid, Metamorphoses Intro., Book 1, Lycanthropy.
March 7 -- Ovid, Metamorphoses Books 2, 3, 4.
March 9 -- Monsters.[March 12 - 16 -- SPRING BREAK]
March 19 -- [Intermission.]
March 21 -- The Shakespeare Myth.
March 23 -- Ovid, Metamorphoses Books [5,] 6, 7, 8.March 26 -- Trojan War Mythology in Shakespeare's Lucrece.
March 28 -- Ovid, Metamorphoses Books 9, 10, 11.
March 30 -- Ovid, Metamorphoses Books 12, 13; Ovid Apocrypha.April 2 -- Ovid, Metamorphoses Books [14,] 15.
April 4 -- The Mythology of Love: Andreas Capellanus.
April 6 -- Italy.April 9 -- The Line, The Cross and the Curve.
April 11 -- Mythology of Gender: Kids' Toys and Games.
April 13 -- Mythology of Personality and Depression.April 16 -- Review.
April 18 -- End-of-Semester Exam & Essay.
April 20 -- Limbo.April 23 -- Final Mythorama 2018.
April 25 -- Final Mythorama 2018.
April 27 -- Last Words: Evaluations, Eulogies.