TTC Classical Mythology torrent

Lectures

1. Introduction
2. What Is Myth?
3. Why Is Myth?
4. “First Was Chaos”
5. The Reign of the Olympians
6. Immortals and Mortals
7. Demeter, Persephone, and the Conquest of Death
8. The Eleusinian Mysteries and the Afterlife
9. Apollo and Artemis
10. Hermes and Dionysos
11. Laughter-Loving Aphrodite
12. Culture, Prehistory, and the "Great Goddess"
13. Humans, Heroes, and Half-Gods
14. Theseus and the "Test-and-Quest" Myth
15. From Myth to History and Back Again
16. The Greatest Hero of All
17. The Trojan War
18. The Terrible House of Atreus
19. Blood Vengeance, Justice, and the Furies
20. The Tragedies of King Oedipus
21. Monstrous Females and Female Monsters
22. Roman Founders, Roman Fables
23. “Gods Are Useful”
24. From Ovid to the Stars

From Athena to Zeus, the characters and stories of classical mythology have been both unforgettable and profoundly influential. They have inspired and shaped everything from great art and literature, to our notions of sexuality and gender roles, to the themes of popular films and TV shows.

Classical Mythology is an introduction to the primary characters and most important stories of classical Greek and Roman mythology. Among those you will study are the accounts of the creation of the world in Hesiod's Theogony and Ovid's Metamorphoses; the gods Zeus, Apollo, Demeter, Persephone, Hermes, Dionysos, and Aphrodite; the Greek Heroes, Theseus and Heracles (Hercules in the Roman version); and the most famous of all classical myths, the Trojan War.