Required Readings 

Website Resources & References

Initiation: course description, group/personal report

Myths of the Olympian Divinities: The Female Divinities

• Note the Divine Femininity in Greek and Roman Mythology
• Visit Chris Witcombe's Images of Women in Ancient Art

G2
Lecture Text (pdf file):

The Epic of Gilgamesh

• C&V,  Ch-1: The Beginnings of Civilization
  
• Read The Epic of Gilgamesh
• Read Prof. Richard Hooker's summaries and notes

Mesopotamia from the British Museum (geography, mythology, writing)

Quiz 1

• C&V,  Ch-1: The Beginnings of Civilization (Ancient Greek Culture)

Myths of the Olympian Gods

• Dionysus vs Apollo 
• Hermes vs Apollo
• Read Bulfinch, Chap 1, Part One, (Introduction ) Chap 1, Part Two (Roman Divinities)
   

Important information about Greek Mythology

--The Family Tree of Greek Divinities
--Table of the Olympian Divinities
--Attributes in Iconography
--Tables of Genealogies
--Myth of Creation-Table
--Hesiod's Theogony-Table
--Timeline of Greek History and Literature
--Summary of Apollodorus's Library

• Mythology Websites : (images)

Bulfinch's Mythology

Carlos Parada: Greek Mythology Link

Princeton Mythology Project  

The Perseus Project

The Ovid Project

Encyclopedia Mythica: an encyclopedia of mythology and folklore

Classical Myth: the Ancient Sources:  images and texts about Greek and Roman deities, attributes in Iconography of classical myth

G3

Lecture Text (pdf file):

Introduction to Greek Mythology & Reading Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book One

• Read C&V, Ch 2: Early Greece (I): The visual arts
• The Lost Meaning of Classical Architecture
• Prof. Jeffery Howe's "The three orders in Classical architecture" in A Digital Archive of Architecture

Myths of Creation 

• Read Ovid's  Metamorphoses, B1
• Visit The Ovid Project , Book 1 & Book 2

Visit "Ancient Greek and Roman Myths Index" in Olga's Gallery (oil painting)

Browse paintings showing characters from Greek and Roman mythology at ArtMagick

Hesiod's Theogony (Berkerly Digital Library online text)
Hesiod's Works and Days (Berkerly Digital Library online text)
Ovid's Metamorphoses (A complete English translation and Mythological index)

Note-4

 (Vision & Transformation)

G4

Lecture Text (pdf file):

Ovid's Metamorphoses, Book 3

• Read C&V, Ch 2: Early Greece (II): Lyric, Philosophy

Vision and Metamorphoses 

• Read Ovid's  Metamorphoses, B3 (stories of transformation about the House of Cadmus)
• Read Sappho's lyric

The Encyclopedia Mythica

Folklore, myths, mythology & fairytales domain

Myths and Legends

Quiz 2

Answer

Note-5  
(Hero & Monster)

G5

Lecture Text (pdf file):

Introduction to Early Greek Arts & Sappho's lyric

• C&V,  Ch 2: Early Greece (III): Epic

Greek Epic

• Read Bulfinch, Ch. XXVII (Trojan War), Ch. XXVIII (The Fall of Trojan and the Return of the Greeks), Ch. XXIX (Adventure of Ulysses)
• 　Images of the Trojan War Myth:

The great quest and the heroic cycle

•  Campbell: "The heroic cycle" 
• A diagram of "heroic cycle"

Mythical Creatures

Monsters (monsters in movies, mythology

Visit Encyclopedia Mythica , and look for related pages on "Bestiary," "Monsters," and "Heroes"

　

Introduction to
Homer's Odyssey
(I)
(II)

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• Read Homer's The Odyssey Books I,  IX, X,
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• Homeric Value

• Table of the Journey of Odysseus

• Study Guide for The Odyssey

Images of the Trojan War Myth: 

• Read Homer's The Odyssey Books XI, XII,

Mid-term Exam

• Read C&V, Ch 3: Classical Greece and the Hellenistic Period (I): architecture, sculpture,  
  

• Harpy Greek Architecture & Sculpture (image collection); 
• Greek Art & Archaeology, (A very interesting site, with images,  movie, and step by step introduction to coin, vase, architecture, sculpture, painting, etc.
• THE ANCIENT CITY OF ATHENS is a photographic archive of the archaeological and architectural remains of ancient Athens (Greece). Browse "Sites & Monuments"
• Maecenas: Images from Ancient Greece and Rome 
• Vase Painting (through The Classics Pages by Andrew Wilson)
• Browse "GREEK AND ROMAN LINKS"

1. Historical background

2. Greek Tragedy

3. Classical and Hellenistic Sculpture

4. Classical and Hellenistic architecture

• Read C&V, Ch 3: Classical Greece and the Hellenistic Period (II): philosophy and drama
  
• Introduction to Greek Tragedy
• Introduction to Greek Tragedy
  *Slide show in PDF format
• Aeschylus's Oresteia Trilogy *Slide show in PDF format
• Sophocles' Oedipus Trilogy *Slide Show in PDF format
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answer

　Review

Final Exam