Myth in Human History

by Grant Voth

Streaming video, 2010

Status

Available

Call number

201.3

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

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