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Professor Peter Meineck examines in detail the far-reaching influence of Greek myths on Western thought and literature. The nature of myth and its importance to ancient Greece in terms of storytelling, music, poetry, religion, cults, rituals, theatre, and literature are viewed through works ranging... Full description
Table of Contents:
- Lecture 1. The nature of Greek myth
- Lecture 2. Religion and society
- Lecture 3. In the beginning there was chaos
- Lecture 4. The Olympians
- Lecture 5. The Trojan war
- Lecture 5. Myth as history
- Lecture 7. Divine myths
- Lecture 8. Myths of identity
- The Odyssey
- Lecture 9. Myths of the afterlife
- Lecture 10. Myth into politics
- Agamemmon
- Lecture 11. Gender in myth
- The women of tragedy
- Lecture 12. Myths of initiation
- The heroes
- Lecture 13. Myths of the city
- Oedipus
- Lecture 14. Myths of the city
- Athens.