Section 02 [HUM] [H]
Fall 2024
SLN 05637
MWF 11:10 – 12:00 noon.
CUE 207
Dr. Michael Delahoyde
Avery Hall 355 — Washington State University
E-mail: delahoyd@wsu.edu
MYTHOLOGY SYLLABUS
[August 19 — Nope.]
August 21 — The Power of Names; Jane Seymour in Le Jardin de Max Factor.
August 23 — Creation Myths: Genesis.
August 26 — Creation Myths: Native American, Mayan, cheesy filmic.
August 28 — Homer’s Iliad: Books 1, 2 (lines 1-583).
August 30 — Greek Creation and the Greek Gods.
[September 2 — Holiday.]
September 4 — Iliad Books 3, [4,] 5.
September 6 — Iliad Books 6, [7,] 8.
September 9 — Iliad Books 9, 10.
September 11 — Lost Civilizations: The Aegean.
September 13 — Iliad Books [11, 12, 13,] 14.
September 16 — Iliad Books [15], 16, [17,] 18.
September 18 — Iliad Books 19, [20,] 21.
September 20 — Iliad Book 22. Lost Episodes. [Zoom.]
September 23 — Iliad Books 23, 24.
September 25 — Trojan War Sequel: Aeneid excerpts.
[September 27 — Conference. No Class.]
September 30 — The Underworld (How To Get Out of Hell); Review.
October 2 — Writing Advice.
October 4 — Midterm Exam & Essay. [Zoom.]
October 7 — Greek Music and Drama: Sophocles, Oedipus. [Zoom.]
October 9 — Greek Drama: Euripides, Medea.
October 11 —
October 14 — The Shakespeare Myth.
October 16 — Ovid, Metamorphoses Books 1, [2]; Werewolves.
October 18 — Ovid, Metamorphoses Books 3, [4, 5,] 6.
October 21 — Trojan War Mythology in Shakespeare’s Lucrece.
October 23 — Ovid, Metamorphoses Books [7,] 8, [9,] 10.
October 25 — Ovid Apocrypha.
October 28 — The Mythology of Love: Andreas Capellanus.
October 30 — The Mythology of Dinosaurs.
November 1 — Ovid, Metamorphoses Books 11, [12,] 13, [14].
November 4 — Ovid, Metamorphoses Book 15; Mythologies of Food.
November 6 — Monsters: Vampires, Zombies, Mummies, et al.
November 8 — Egyptian Mythology: Joseph Campbell and Alan Green.
[November 11 — Holiday.]
November 13 — Secret Sacred Math, The Stratford Heist.
November 15 —
November 18 — Review.
November 20 — End-of-Semester Exam. [Remote.]
November 22 — Extra Myth.
[November 25 – 29 — Thanksgiving Break.]
December 2 — Final Mythorama 2024.
December 4 — Other Options.
December 6 — The rest is silence.