Bibliograph

Myth in human history, the Teaching Company

Type

Label

Myth in human history, the Teaching Company

Language

eng

Characteristic

videorecording

Intended audience

Not rated (Ont.)

Main title

Myth in human history

Medium

DVD

Oclc number

1060762795

Responsibility statement

the Teaching Company

Runtime

http://bibfra.me/vocab/marc/unknown

Series statement

Great courses. Literature & language. Western literature

Summary

In half-hour lectures, this course explores myths from around the world, focusing in particular on myths outside the Greco-Roman world

Table Of Contents

Disc 1. Lecture 1. Myth and meaning -- Lecture 2 : The continuing importance of myth -- Lecture 3 : Creation myths -- Lecture 4 : Mesopotamian creation: Enuma Elish -- Lecture 5 : Hebrew creation myths -- Lecture 6 : Emergence and world-parent creation myths -- Disc 2. -- Lecture 7 : Cosmic egg and ex nihilo creation myths -- Lecture 8 : Earth-diver and dismembered God creation myths -- Lecture 9 : Mesopotamian and Hebrew flood myths -- Lecture 10 : Other flood myths -- Lecture 11 : Myths of cosmic destruction -- Lecture 12 : Greek and Norse pantheons -- Disc 3. Lecture 13 : The great Goddess remembered? -- Lecture 14 : The Goddess: Inanna and Dumuzi -- Lecture 15 : The Goddess: Isis and Osiris -- Lecture 16 : The eclipse of the Goddess -- Lecture 17 : Shamans and vegetation Gods -- Lecture 18 : Sky Gods and earth Goddesses -- Disc 4. Lecture 19 : Creator Gods -- Lecture 20 : Gods and Goddesses of India -- Lecture 21 : Hero myths -- Lecture 22 : Mythic heroes: Gilgamesh -- Lecture 23 : Mythic heroes: King Arthur -- Lecture 24 : Mythic heroes: Jason and the Argonauts -- Disc 5. Lecture 25 : The monomyths of Rank and Campbell -- Lecture 26 : Mythic heroes: Mwindo -- Lecture 27 : Female heroes: Demeter and Hester Prynne -- Lecture 28 : Female heroes: Psyche and Beauty -- Lecture 29 : The trickster in mythology -- Lecture 30 : Tricksters from around the world -- Disc 6. Lecture 31 : Native American tricksters -- Lecture 32 : African tricksters -- Lecture 33 : Mythic tricksters: Eshu and Legba -- Lecture 34 : The places of myth: rocks and lakes -- Lecture 35 : The places of myth: mountains -- Lecture 36 : The places of myth: sacred trees

Technique

live action

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