Humanities 103
Mythology

Section 02
Spring 2017
SLN 01609
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 9 -- The Power of Names; Jane Seymour in Le Jardin de Max Factor.
January 11 -- Creation Myths: Genesis.
January 13 -- Creation Myths: Native American, Mayan, cheesy filmic.

[January 16 -- Martin Luther King Holiday.]
[January 18 -- Wazzucalypse: no classes.]
January 20 -- The Greek Gods; Homer's Iliad: Book 1.

January 23 -- Homer's Iliad: Books 2 (lines 1-583), 3, [4].
January 25 -- Iliad Books 5, 6, [7].
January 27 -- Iliad Books 8, 9.

January 30 -- Iliad Books 10, 11.
February 1 -- Lost Civilizations: The Aegean.
February 3 -- Iliad Books 12, [13,] 14, [15].

February 6 -- Iliad Books 16, [17,] 18.
February 8 -- Iliad Books 19, [20], 21, 22.
February 10 -- Lost Episode.

February 13 -- Iliad Books 23, 24.
February 15 -- The Fall of Troy--Aeneid excerpts, Books I-II.
February 17 -- The Underworld--Aeneid excerpts, Book VI. Review.

[February 20 -- St. Nixon Holy Day.]
February 22 -- Writing Essays.
February 24 -- Midterm Exam & Essay.

February 27 -- Greek Drama: Sophocles, Oedipus.
March 1 -- Sophocles, Oedipus; Euripides, Medea.
March 3 -- Euripides, Medea.

March 6 -- Ovid, Metamorphoses Book 1; Lycanthropy.
March 8 -- Ovid, Metamorphoses Books 2, 3.
March 10 -- Intermission.

[March 13 - 17 -- SPRING BREAK]

March 20 -- The Shakespeare Myth.
March 22 -- Ovid, Metamorphoses Books 4, [5,] 6, 7.
March 24 -- Trojan War Mythology in Shakespeare's Lucrece.

March 27 -- Ovid, Metamorphoses Books 8, 9.
March 29 -- The Mythology of Love: Andreas Capellanus.
March 31 -- Ovid, Metamorphoses Books 10, 11, 12.

April 3 -- Ovid Apocrypha.
April 5 -- Ovid, Metamorphoses Books 13, [14,] 15.
April 7 -- Scholarly Research.

April 10 -- The Line, The Cross and the Curve.
April 12 -- Mythology of Gender: Kids' Toys and Games.
April 14 -- Mythology of Personality and Depression.

April 17 -- Review.
April 19 -- End-of-Semester Exam & Essay.
April 21 -- Limbo.

April 24 -- Final Mythorama 2017.
April 26 -- Final Mythorama 2017.
April 28 -- Last Words: Evaluations, Eulogies.


Mythology Index


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