Humanities 103
Mythology

Section 01
Fall 2012
SLN 25346
MWF 1:10 - 2:00 pm.
Todd 430
Dr. Michael Delahoyde
Avery Hall 355 -- Washington State University
Hours: MWF 11:00-12:00, and by appointment.
Phone: 509-335-4832
E-mail: delahoyd@wsu.edu


Mythology
Syllabus


August 20 -- The Power of Names; Jane Seymour in Le Jardin de Max Factor.
August 22 -- Creation Myths: Genesis, Native American.
August 22 -- Creation Myths: Native American, Mayan, cheesy filmic.

August 27 -- Creation Myths: Hesiod's Theogony.
August 29 -- Homer's Iliad: Books 1, 2 (lines 1-583).
August 31 -- Homer's Iliad: Books 3, 4.

[September 3 -- Holy Day.]
September 5 -- Iliad Books 5, 6, [7].
September 7 -- Iliad Books [8,] 9, 10.

September 10 -- Iliad Books 11, 12.
September 12 -- Iliad Books [13,] 14.
September 14 -- Iliad Books [15,] 16.

September 17 -- Iliad Books [17,] 18, 19.
September 19 -- Iliad Books 20, 21.
September 21 -- Iliad Books 22, 23.

September 24 -- Pause.
September 26 -- Iliad Book 24.
September 28 -- The Trojan War: The Sequel--Aeneid excerpts.

October 1 -- Review & Writing.
October 3 -- Midterm Exam & Essay.
October 5 -- Trojan War Mythology in Shakespeare's Lucrece.

October 8 -- Greek Drama: Sophocles, Oedipus.
October 10 -- Greek Drama: Sophocles, Oedipus; Euripides, Medea.
October 12 -- Euripides, Medea.

October 15 -- Ovid, Metamorphoses Books 1, 2.
October 17 -- Ovid, Metamorphoses Books 3, [4]; Werewolves & Zombies.
October 19 -- Ovid, Metamorphoses Books [5,] 6; Herpephobia (Dinosaur Mythology).

October 22 -- Ovid, Metamorphoses Books 7, 8.
October 24 -- Ovid, Metamorphoses Books 9, 10.
October 26 -- Ovid, Metamorphoses Books 11 [Orpheus, Midas], 12.

October 29 -- Ovid, Metamorphoses Books 13, [14].
October 31 -- Ovid, Metamorphoses Book 15.
November 2 -- The Line, The Cross and the Curve.

November 5 -- The Alan Green Experience: Part 1.
November 7 -- The Alan Green Experience: Part 2.
November 9 -- Mythologies of Depression.

[November 12 -- Sacred War Day. No Learning.]
November 14 -- The Art of Courtly Love.
November 16 -- Popular Cultural Constructs.

November 19 - 23 -- THANKSGIVING BREAK

November 26 -- Film and Analysis.
November 28 -- Review.
November 30 -- Last Exam & Essay.

December 3 -- Final Mythorama 2012.
December 5 -- Final Mythorama 2012.
December 7 -- Last Words: Evaluations, Eulogies.


Mythology Index


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