课程介绍

希腊罗马神话

课程目录

1 Introduction

1.0 Promo Video

1.1 What is Myth_

1.2 Course Overview

1.3 Ancient Ideas on Myth

1.4 Ideas on Myth from the Modern Era

1.5 The Trojan War & The World of Homer

1.6 Trojan War Aftermath and The Homer Question

1.7 On Reading Homer

2 Becoming a Hero

2.1 On Reading Homer, Part II

2.2 Telemachus' Troubles

2.3 Telemachus' Tour

2.4 Odysseus on Ogygia

2.5 Odysseus on Scheria

2.6 Alcinous

2.7 Knee-Grabbing

2.8 Functionalism

2.9 Reassembling the Hero

2.10 Poetry and Demodocus

3 Adventures Out and Back

3.1 Odysseus and the Cyclops

3.2 Cycle Two_ Circe

3.3 The Underworld

3.4 Cycle 3_ The Cattle of the Sun

3.5 Food_Not Food

3.6 Structuralism

3.7 Inner and Outer Worlds

3.7 Structuring if Statements

3.8 Extracting Knowledge

3.9 Meanwhile Telemachus...

3.10 Reunion_ Father and Sons

4 Identity and Signs

4.1 Odysseus Meets the Suitors

4.2 Signs as a Way of Knowing

4.3 What Does Penelope Know_

4.4 The Scar

4.5 Penelope's Dream

4.6 The Bow

4.7 Reunion (Almost)

4.8 Reunion

5 Gods and Humans

5.1 Introducing the Greek Gods

5.2 Hesiod and Ancient Near East Connections

5.3 Intro to Hesiod

5.4 Hesiod's Opening Hymn to the Muses

5.5 Earth and Sky

5.6 Kronos and Rhea

5.7 Humans and Sacrifice

5.8 War, Cosmos, Reproduction

5.9 Freud

6 Ritual and Religion

6.1 Introduction to the Homeric Hymns

6.2 Ritual and Religion

6.3 The Hymn to Demeter)

6.4 Themes in The Hymn to Demeter

6.5 The Hymn to Apollo_ Delos

6.6 The Hymn to Apollo_ Delphi

6.7 Myth and Ritual

7 Justice

7.1 Introduction to Tragedy

7.2 Family Ties, Betrayals)

7.3 Introducing Agamemnon

7.4 Agamemnon Themes

7.5 Ideas of Justice

7.6 Libation Bearers

7.7 Intro to the Eumenides

7.8 Measuring Evil

7.9 Historical Background

7.10 Readings of the Oresteia

8 Unstable Selves

8.1 Introduction to Oedipus

8.2 Oedipus and Fate

8.3 Oedipus and Oracles

8.4 The Land and Identity

8.5 Chthonic Identity

8.6 Readings of Oedipus

8.7 Greek and Dionysian Ritual

8.8 Bacchae Themes

8.9 Reading The Bacchae

9 The Roman Hero, Remade

9.1 Myth and History

9.2 Myth, History, and Virgil

9.3 Aeneid Opening

9.4 On Reading Vergil

9.5 Landing on an Unknown Shore

9.6 Trojan War Again

9.7 Retelling Tales

9.8 Two Themes

9.9 Dido and Marriage

9.10 Funeral Games for Anchises

10 Roman Myth and Ovid's Metamorphoses

10.1 The Afterlife and the Underworld

10.2 Themes in the Underworld

10.3 Vergil and the Theories of Myth

10.4 Ovid—Background and Themes

10.5 Re-visiting Thebes

10.6 Trojan War Again

10.7 Battle for the Arms of Achilles

10.8 The Fall of Troy and the Founding of Rome

10.9 Conclusion