Mythology
Sections 02 & 03
Fall 2019
SLN 01920
MWF 11:10-12:00
Bryan Hall 324
Dr. Michael Delahoyde
Avery Hall 355 — Washington State University
Hours: MWF 9:00-10:00, and by appointment.
Phone: 509-335-4832
E-mail: delahoyd@wsu.edu
August 19 — The Power of Names; Jane Seymour in Le Jardin de Max Factor.
August 21 — Creation Myths: Genesis 1-3.
August 23 — Creation Myths: Native American, Mayan, cheesy filmic.August 26 — Creation Myths: (Hesiod’s Theogony), The Greek gods.
August 28 — Homer’s Iliad: Books 1.
August 30 — Homer’s Iliad: Books 2 (lines 1-583), 3, [4].[September 2 — Labor Day Holiday.]
September 4 — Iliad Books 5, 6, [7].
September 6 — Iliad Books 8, 9.September 9 — Iliad Books 10, 11.
September 11 — Lost Civilizations: The Aegean.
September 13 — Iliad Books 12, [13,] 14, [15].September 16 — Iliad Books 16, [17,] 18.
September 18 — Iliad Books 19, [20], Lost Episode.
September 20 — Iliad Books 21, 22.September 23 — Iliad Books 23, 24.
[September 25 — Intermission.]
September 27 — Essay-Writing Advice.[September 30 — Conference.]
October 2 — Aeneid excerpts, Books I-II (The Fall of Troy).
October 4 — Aeneid excerpts, Book VI (The Underworld); Review.October 7 — Midterm Exam & Essay.
October 9 — Greek Music and Drama: Sophocles, Oedipus.
October 11 — Euripides, Medea.October 14 — Ovid, Metamorphoses Intro., Book 1, Lycanthropy.
October 16 — Ovid, Metamorphoses Books 2, 3, 4.
October 18 — Ovid, Metamorphoses Books [5,] 6, 7, 8.October 21 — The Shakespeare Myth.
October 23 — Ovid, Metamorphoses Books 9, 10, 11.
October 25 — Ovid Apocrypha.October 28 — Trojan War Mythology in Shakespeare’s Lucrece.
October 30 — Monsters.
November 1 — Dinosaur Films and Herpephobia.November 4 — Ovid, Metamorphoses Books 12-15.
November 6 — The Mythology of Love: Andreas Capellanus.
November 8 — The Line, The Cross and the Curve.[November 11 — Sacred War Holiday. No Class Whatsoever.]
November 13 — Mythology of Gender: Kids’ Toys and Games.
November 15 — Mythology of Personality and Depression, or Italy.November 18 — Review.
November 20 — End-of-Semester Exam & Essay.
November 22 — Limbo.[November 25 – 29 — THANKSGIVING BREAK]
December 2 — Final Mythorama 2019.
December 4 — Final Mythorama 2019.
December 6 — Last Words: Evaluations, Eulogies.