Record details

• ISBN: 1598036696
• ISBN: 9781598036695
• Physical Description: 18 audio discs : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + course guidebook (138 p. : ill.)
• Publisher: Chantilly, VA : Great Courses, c2010.

Content descriptions

General Note:

36 lectures (30 min. each)

Compact discs.

Formatted Contents Note:

Vol. 1. Disc 1. Myth and meaning ; The continuing importance of myth -- Disc 2. Creation myths ; Mesopotamian creation : Enuma Elish -- Disc 3. Hebrew creation myths ; Emergence and world-parent creation myths -- Disc 4. Cosmic egg and ex nihilo creation myths ; Earth-diver and dismembered God creation myths -- Disc 5. Mesopotamian and Hebrew flood myths ; Other flood myths -- Disc 6. Myths of cosmic destruction ; Greek and Norse pantheons.

Vol. 2. Disc 7. The great goddess remembered ; The goddess : Inanna and Dumuzi -- Disc 8. The goddess : Isis and Osiris ; The eclipse of the goddess -- Disc 9. Shamans and vegetation gods ; Sky gods and earth goddesses -- Disc 10. Creator gods ; Gods and goddesses of India -- Disc 11. Hero myths ; Mythic heroes : Gilgamesh -- Disc 12. Mythic heroes : King Arthur ; Jason and the Argonauts.

Vol. 3. Disc 13. The monomyths of Rank and Campbell ; Mythic heroes : Mwindo -- Disc 14. Female heroes : Demeter and Hester Prynne ; Psyche and Beauty -- Disc 15. The trickster in mythology ; Tricksters from around the world -- Disc 16. Native American tricksters ; African tricksters -- Disc 17. Mythic tricksters : Eshu and Legba ; The places of myth : rocks and lakes -- Disc 18. The places of myth : mountains ; sacred trees.

Participant or Performer Note:

Taught by professor Grant L. Voth.

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Subject:

Mythology.

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