
Lecture Description
In this lecture, Prof. Vandiver introduces Roman mythology with a constant reference to Greek mythology. The primary work dealt here is Virgil's Aeneid.
Obtained from archive.org.
Suggested readings:
"Aeneid" by Virgil trans. Dryden: a.co/j0tBJ7E
There is also an upcoming translation by David Ferry this fall.
Course Index
- Introduction to Classical Mythology
- What is Myth?
- Why is Myth? by Elizabeth Vandiver
- "First Was Chaos" by Elizabeth Vandiver
- The Reign Of The Olympians
- Immortals and Mortals by Elizabeth Vandiver
- Demeter, Persephone, and The Conquest Of Death
- The Eleusinian Mysteries and The Afterlife
- Apollo and Artemis
- Hermes and Dionysus
- Laughter-Loving Aphrodite
- ulture, Prehistory, and the "Great Goddesses"
- Humans, Heroes, and Half-Gods
- Theseus and the "Test-and-Quest" Myth
- From Myth to History and Back Again
- The Greatest Hero Of All
- The Trojan War
- The Terrible House Of Atreus
- Blood, Vengeance, Justice, and The Furies
- The Tragedies Of King Oedipus
- Monstrous Females and Female Monsters
- Roman Founders, Roman Fables
- Gods Are Useful
- From Ovid To The Stars
Course Description
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.