Mythology Syllabus
Spring 2025

Humanities 103
Section 02 [HUM] [H]
Spring 2025
SLN 04830
MWF 9:10 – 10:00am.
Avery 111 (The Bundy Reading Room)


Dr. Michael Delahoyde
Avery Hall 355 — Washington State University
E-mail: delahoyd@wsu.edu


MYTHOLOGY SYLLABUS


January 6 — The Power of Names; Jane Seymour in Le Jardin de Max Factor.
January 8 — Creation Myths: Genesis.
January 10 — Creation Myths: Native American, Mayan, cheesy filmic.

January 13 — Greek Creation and the Greek Gods.
January 15 — Homer’s Iliad: Books 1, 2 (lines 1-583).
January 17 — Iliad Books 3, [4,] 5.

[January 20 — Holiday.]
January 22 — Iliad Books 6, [7,] 8.
January 24 — Iliad Books 9, 10.

January 27 — Lost Civilizations: The Aegean.
January 29 — Iliad Books [11, 12, 13,] 14.
January 31 — Iliad Books [15], 16, [17,] 18.

February 3 — Iliad Books 19, [20,] 21.
[February 5 — Snow Hour.]
February 7 — Iliad Book 22, 23. Lost Episodes. [Zoom.]

February 10 — Iliad Book 24.
February 12 — Trojan War Sequel: Aeneid excerpts.
February 14 — The Underworld (How To Get Out of Hell); Review.

[February 17 — St. Nixon Holy Day. No Class Whatsoever.]
February 19 — Writing Advice.
February 21 — Midterm Exam & Essay. [Zoom.]

February 24 — Greek Music and Drama: Sophocles, Oedipus.
February 26 — Greek Drama: Euripides, Medea.
February 28 — More Myths.

March 3 — The Shakespeare Myth.
March 5 — Ovid, Metamorphoses Books 1, [2]; Werewolves.
March 7 — Office Hour.

[March 10 – 14 — Spring Break.]

March 17 — Trojan War Mythology in Shakespeare’s Lucrece.
March 19 — Ovid, Metamorphoses Books 3, [4, 5,] 6.
March 21 — Ovid, Metamorphoses Books [7,] 8, [9,] 10.

March 24 — The Mythology of Love: Andreas Capellanus.
March 26 — Ovid Apocrypha.
March 28 — Ovid, Metamorphoses Books 11, [12,] 13, [14].

March 31 — Ovid, Metamorphoses Book 15; Mythologies of Food.
April 2 — The Mythology of Dinosaurs.
[April 4 — Conference.]

April 7 — Monsters: Vampires, Zombies, Mummies, et al.
April 9 — Secret Sacred Math, The Stratford Heist.
April 11 — Egyptian Mythology: Joseph Campbell and Alan Green. [Zoom.]

April 14 — Review.
April 16 — End-of-Semester Exam. [Remote.]
April 18 — “Office” Hours.

April 21 — Final Mythorama 2025.
April 23 — Other Options.
April 25 — The rest is silence.