Midterm essay questions will be sent out by email.Ī POSEIDON STORY: (Minos and Pasiphae, Ariadne, Theseus & Hippolytus): 349-350 (the Gorgon, Athena as assistant of heroes). THE THIRD GENERATION (Zeus and the Olympians). THE THIRD GENERATION (Zeus and the Olympians) Levy-Strauss and the Structuralist Theory Dumezil and the Tripartite Function Theory Myth Tools: Modern Theories of Mythology (follow the Myth Tools handout) 134 (quotation under title) 660 and 686 ( Euhemerus) pp. The Loves of Zeus in European Art", between pp. Be sure to look at the photos under Iconography) But if you have purchased the SEVENTH EDITION, that is all right, but you must use the separate "Suggested Readings" page for the seventh edition, not the list below.īasic Principles: Some Ancient Ideas (etymology, aetiology, meteorology) NOTE: Below is the reading list for the EIGHTH EDITION (August 2014). Click on Powell's name to access this site, or use the link listed in the Introduction of your textbook. Powell, Classical Myth (Pearson Longman 2011) SEVENTH Edition Paper The publisher has provided an extensive web site with useful chapter outlines (goals), study sheets, practice quizzes and other materials for the textbook. There is a new edition of the textbook: Barry B. You're staying ahead in your readings.įor various on-line assignments, click on "Assignments" button at left. Hence the frequent grumble, "We're so behind." Not so.
The Suggested Readings is designed so that all of the appropriate material will be read in reasonable-sized bites, and ahead of class discussion. Lectures will follow the order of items in the Course Outline, not the schedule of Suggested Readings. Significance of sets of myths and themes. You can organize and compare on a larger scale so that you can see the Major facts in a chapter or topic or lecture the midterm and final test whether The quizzes basically test whether you have read and discovered the
The readings also form part of the basis for the quizzes and exams. Questions at any time : better to say you aren't following somethingĪnd get a clarification, than to have the course move on into deepening Questions that can be addressed efficiently. Interests your Instructor, at least), and will perhaps have problems or Language and literature department, and the literature in itself Sources about that character (This is, after all, a course in a Mythological character is, will have read some at least of the ancient Student will have a sense of what the basic outline of the myth or Have read all (or at least some) of the items listed for each week before that class actually meets.
Is the expectation and hope of the Instructor that the student will