Section 02 [HUM] [H]
Spring 2022
SLN 27503
MWF 11:10 – 12:00 noon.
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Dr. Michael Delahoyde
Avery Hall 355 — Washington State University
E-mail: delahoyd@wsu.edu
MYTHOLOGY SYLLABUS
January 12 — The Power of Names; Jane Seymour in Le Jardin de Max Factor.
January 14 — Creation Myths: Genesis.[January 17 — Holiday.]
January 19 — Creation Myths: Native American, Mayan, cheesy filmic.
January 21 — Greek Creation and the Greek Gods.January 24 — Homer’s Iliad: Books 1, 2 (lines 1-583).
January 26 — Iliad Books 3, [4,] 5.
January 28 — Iliad Books 6, [7,] 8.January 31 — Iliad Books 9, 10.
February 2 — Lost Civilizations: The Aegean.
February 4 — Iliad Books [11,] 12, [13,] 14.February 7 — Iliad Books [15], 16, [17,] 18.
February 9 — Iliad Books 19, [20,] 21.
February 11 — Iliad Book 22. Lost Episodes.February 14 — Iliad Books 23, 24.
February 16 — Trojan War Sequel: Aeneid.
February 18 — The Underworld (How To Get Out of Hell); Review.[February 21 — St. Nixon Holy Day. No Class Whatsoever.]
February 23 — Writing Advice.
February 25 — Midterm Exam & Essay.February 28 — Pause.
March 2 — Greek Music and Drama: Sophocles, Oedipus.
March 4 — Greek Drama: Euripides, Medea.March 7 — The Shakespeare Myth.
March 9 — Ovid, Metamorphoses Books 1, [2]; Werewolves.
March 11 — Other Mythologies.[March 14 – 18 — Spring Break.]
March 21 — Ovid, Metamorphoses Books 3, [4, 5,] 6.
March 23 — Trojan War Mythology in Shakespeare’s Lucrece.
March 25 — Ovid, Metamorphoses Books [7,] 8, [9,] 10.March 28 — The Mythology of Love: Andreas Capellanus.
March 30 — Ovid, Metamorphoses Books 11, 12, 13, [14].
April 1 — Ovid Apocrypha.April 4 — Ovid, Metamorphoses Book 15; Mythologies of Food.
April 6 — The Mythology of Dinosaurs.
[April 8 — Conference.]April 11 — Monsters: Vampires, Zombies, Mummies, et al.
April 13 — The Line, The Cross & The Curve.
April 15 — The Chemical Paradigm.April 18 — Review.
April 20 — End-of-Semester Exam.
April 22 — “Office” Hours.April 26 — Final Mythorama 2022.
April 28 — Final Mythorama 2022.
April 30 — The rest is silence.