pt. 1. Lecture 1: Introduction ; Lecture 2: What is myth? ; Lecture 3: Why is myth? ; Lecture 4: "First was Chaos" ; Lecture 5: The reign of the Olympians ; Lecture 7: Demeter, Persephone, and the conquest of death ; Lecture 8: The Eleusinian Mysteries and the afterlife ; Lecture 9: Apollo and Artemis ; Lecture 10: Hermes and Dionysos ; Lecture 11: Laughter-loving Aphrodite ; Lecture 12: Culture, pre-history, and the "Great Goddess"
pt. 2. Lecture 13: Humans, heroes, and half-gods ; Lecture 14: Theseus and the "test-and-quest" myth ; Lecture 15: From myth to history and back again ; Lecture 16: The greatest hero of all ; Lecture 17: The Trojan War ; Lecture 18: The terrible House of Atreus ; Lecture 19: Blood vengeance, justice, and the Furies ; Lecture 20: The tragedies of King Oedipus ; Lecture 21: Monstrous females and female monsters ; Lecture 22: Roman founders, Roman fables ; Lecture 23: "Gods are useful" ; Lecture 24: From Ovid to the stars.
pt. 1. lecture 1: Introduction ; lecture 2: What is myth? ; lecture 3: Why is myth? ; lecture 4: "First was Chaos" ; lecture 5: The reign of the Olympians ; lecture 7: Demeter, Persephone, and the conquest of death ; lecture 8: The Eleusinian Mysteries and the afterlife ; lecture 9: Apollo and Artemis ; lecture 10: Hermes and Dionysos ; lecture 11: Laughter-loving Aphrodite ; lecture 12: Culture, pre-history, and the "Great Goddess"
pt. 2. lecture 13: Humans, heroes, and half-gods ; lecture 14: Theseus and the "test-and-quest" myth ; lecture 15: From myth to history and back again ; lecture 16: The greatest hero of all ; lecture 17: The Trojan War ; lecture 18: The terrible House of Atreus ; lecture 19: Blood vengeance, justice, and the Furies ; lecture 20: The tragedies of King Oedipus ; lecture 21: Monstrous females and female monsters ; lecture 22: Roman founders, Roman fables ; lecture 23: "Gods are useful" ; lecture 24: From Ovid to the stars.
