Great Courses: Classical Mythology- Course Guidebook

The Great Courses presents : Classical Mythology. Includes paperback course guidebook and 4 DVDs accompanying it in their original case. 24 lectures of 30 minutes per lecture, taught by Professor Elizabeth Vandiver, as Associate Professor of Classics and Clement Biddle Penrose Professor of Latin at Whitman College. DISC 1: Introduction, What is Myth?, Why is Myth?, "First Was Chaos," The Reign of the Olympians, Immortals and Mortals; DISC 2: Demeter/Persephone/and the Conquest of Death; The Eleusinian Mysteries and the Afterlife; Apollo and Artemis; Hermes and Dionysos; Laughter-Loving Aphrodite; Culture/Prehistory and the "Great Goddess"; DISC 3: Humans/Heroes and Half-Gods; Theseus and the "Test-and-Quest" Myth; From Myth to History and Back Again; The Greatest Hero of Them All; The Trojan War; The Terrible House of Atreus; DISC 4: Blood Vengeance/Justice and the Furies; The Tragedies of King Oedipus; Monstrous Female and Female Monsters; Roman Founders/Roman Fables; "Gods Are Useful," From Ovid to the Stars.