Discover the truths hidden within the world's most enduring myths in the entertaining and illuminating <strong>Myth in Human History</strong>. Delivered by engaging storyteller and award-winning Professor Grant L. Voth, these 36 lectures are a comprehensive survey of great myths and the diverse cultures behind them. Taking you from the islands of ancient Greece and Japan to the plains of North America and Africa to the shores of New Zealand and Great Britain, this course will have you looking at—and understanding—mythology in startling new ways.
Overview
Syllabus
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- 01: Myth and Meaning
- 02: The Continuing Importance of Myth
- 03: Creation Myths
- 04: Mesopotamian Creation—Enuma Elish
- 05: Hebrew Creation Myths
- 06: Emergence and World—Parent Creation Myths
- 07: Cosmic Egg and Ex Nihilo Creation Myths
- 08: Earth-Diver and Dismembered God Creation Myths
- 09: Mesopotamian and Hebrew Flood Myths
- 10: Other Flood Myths
- 11: Myths of Cosmic Destruction
- 12: Greek and Norse Pantheons
- 13: The Great Goddess Remembered?
- 14: The Goddess—Inanna and Dumuzi
- 15: The Goddess—Isis and Osiris
- 16: The Eclipse of the Goddess
- 17: Shamans and Vegetation Gods
- 18: Sky Gods and Earth Goddesses
- 19: Creator Gods
- 20: Gods and Goddesses of India
- 21: Hero Myths
- 22: Mythic Heroes—Gilgamesh
- 23: Mythic Heroes—King Arthur
- 24: Mythic Heroes—Jason and the Argonauts
- 25: The Monomyths of Rank and Campbell
- 26: Mythic Heroes—Mwindo
- 27: Female Heroes—Demeter and Hester Prynne
- 28: Female Heroes—Psyche and Beauty
- 29: The Trickster in Mythology
- 30: Tricksters from around the World
- 31: Native American Tricksters
- 32: African Tricksters
- 33: Mythic Tricksters—Eshu and Legba
- 34: The Places of Myth—Rocks and Lakes
- 35: The Places of Myth—Mountains
- 36: The Places of Myth—Sacred Trees
Taught by
Dr. Grant L. Voth
