Section 02 [HUM] [H]
Fall 2021
SLN 03561
MWF 11:10 – 12:00 noon.
Dr. Michael Delahoyde
Avery Hall 355 — Washington State University
E-mail: delahoyd@wsu.edu
MYTHOLOGY SYLLABUS
August 23 — The Power of Names; Jane Seymour in Le Jardin de Max Factor.
August 25 — Creation Myths: Genesis.
[August 27 — Technocalypse: No Class.]August 30 — Creation Myths: Native American, Mayan, cheesy filmic.
September 1 — Greek Creation and the Greek Gods.
September 3 — Homer’s Iliad: Books 1, 2 (lines 1-583).[September 6 — Labor Day Holiday.]
September 8 — Iliad Books 3, [4,] 5, 6.
September 10 — Iliad Books [7,] 8, 9.September 13 — Iliad Books 10, [11,] 12; Trojan War background.
September 15 — Lost Civilizations: The Aegean.
September 17 — Iliad Books [13,] 14, [15], 16.September 20 — Iliad Books [17,] 18, 19.
September 22 — Iliad Books [20,] 21. Lost Episodes.
September 24 — Iliad Books 22, 23.September 27 — The Iliad Book 24.
September 29 — Trojan War Sequel: Aeneid.
October 1 — The Underworld (How To Get Out of Hell); Review.October 4 — Writing Advice.
October 6 — Midterm Exam.
October 8 — Pause.October 11 — Greek Music and Drama: Sophocles, Oedipus.
October 13 — Greek Drama: Euripides, Medea.
October 15 — The Shakespeare Myth.October 18 — Ovid, Metamorphoses Books 1, [2]; Werewolves.
October 20 — Trojan War Mythology in Shakespeare’s Lucrece.
October 22 — Ovid, Metamorphoses Books 3, [4, 5,] 6.October 25 — The Mythology of Love: Andreas Capellanus.
October 27 — Ovid, Metamorphoses Books [7,] 8, [9,] 10.
October 29 — Monsters: Vampires, Zombies, Mummies, et al.November 1 — Ovid, Metamorphoses Books 11, 12, 13, [14].
November 3 — Ovid Apocrypha.
November 5 — Mythologies in Pop Psych, The Chemical Paradigm.November 8 — Ovid, Metamorphoses Book 15; Mythologies of Food.
November 10 — The Mythology of Dinosaurs.
[November 12 — Holy War Holiday: No Class Whatsoever.]November 15 — The Line, The Cross & The Curve.
November 17 — Other Mythologies and Uses of Myth.
November 19 — “Office” Hours.[November 22-26 — Thanksgiving Week.]
November 29 — Review.
December 1 — Final Exam.
December 3 — “Office” Hours.December 6 — Final Mythorama 2021.
December 8 — Final Mythorama 2021.
December 10 — The rest is silence.