History of Western Arts2-2-28

Special Topic: Greco-Roman Mythology and Western arts

  1. A good course on Greek and Roman Mythology. (http://web.uvic.ca/grs/bowman/course_info/GRS200.1997/index.html)
  2. Attributes in Iconography (http://web.uvic.ca/grs/bowman/myth/attributes.htm)
  3. Myth of Creation--Table (http://home5.swipnet.se/~w-58907/GGGM-F/MythsOfCreation.html)
  4. Time Line of Greek History and Literature (http://web.uvic.ca/grs/bowman/myth/info/timeline.html)
  5. Greek Mythology Links (Abstractions, Sidereal and natural personification, Major divinities, Waters and landscape, Monsters, Immortals)
  6. The "Heroic Cycle" (a diagram according to Joseph Campbell)

    7. The heroic pattern and the heroine's pattern.

    The Labors of Hercules (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/Hercules/labors.html)

    Mythology 101 (http://www.mca.com/tv/hercules/classicSite/myth101/)

    The song lyric from the Disney cartoon Hercules (http://zeus.informatik.uni-frankfurt.de/%7Eefp/Disney/Lyrics/)

    Persus

    Theseus

    Oedipus Rex

  7. The myth about transformation
  1. "Narcissus and Echo"
  2. "Cupid and Psyche"
  1. Epic and Homeric Values

    2. Example: The Odyssey (a table of Odysseus's journey)

  2. Aristotle's definition of tragedy