Status
Available
Call number
Collection
Publication
The Great Courses (2010), 18 hours, 36 lectures, 146 pages
Description
"In 36 half-hour lectures, this course explores myths from around the world, focusing in particular on myths outside the Greco-Roman world..."--Guidebook.
Language
Original language
English
Physical description
146 p.; 7.8 inches
Local notes
[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