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Life lessons from the great myths / J. Rufus Fears.

Chantilly, VA : Great Courses, ©2011.

6 videodiscs (18 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (vi, 196 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm).

A series of lectures delivered by Professor J. Rufus Fears of the University of Oklahoma in which he explores the world's greatest myths. Beginning with the Trojan War and the Illiad and moving through the Bronze age in the Mediterranean with Theseus and Oedipus, Mesopotamia and Gilgamesh, the three great religions from the Middle East, the Roman Empire in the Aeneid, Romulus and Remus and Augustus, Alexander the Great, the British Isles, Beowulf and King Arthur, Julius Caesar and Napoleon, ultimately crossing the Atlantic to consider the myths of America created from the oldest legends of humankind.

The great courses

Great courses (DVD). Philosophy & intellectual history.

Mythology in literature.

Mythology, Classical, in literature.

Mythology, Greek, in literature.

Mythology, Roman, in literature.

Literature and society.

Video recordings.

Educational films.

Fears, J. Rufus, 1945-2012.

Teaching Company.

Accompanying course guidebook Includes bibliographical references (pages 190-196.).

J. Rufus Fears, lecturer.

DVD format.

Heroes, history and myth -- Myth of Troy -- Homer and mythology -- In search of historical Troy -- Life lessons from the Trojan War. Jason and the golden fleece -- Theseus and the minotaur -- Myth and Athenian drama -- Fate and free will in mythology -- Atlantis, fact or fiction? -- Epic of Gilgamesh -- Gilgamesh and history.

Book of Genesis -- Exodus, the foundation of the Jewish people -- Historical power of biblical stories -- Aeneas, Rome's national hero -- Romulus, the founder of Rome -- Lays of ancient Rome -- Alexander the Great in history -- Alexander the Great in romance -- Beowulf, historical roots and heroic values -- King Arthur, fact or fiction? -- In search of the holy grail -- Vikings in America?

Vergil the magician -- Battle of Kosovo -- Julius Caesar in history -- Napoleon and the mantle of Caesar -- Arminius and German mythology -- Teuton versus Roman. Davy Crockett and the myth of the frontier -- Alamo -- Jesse James and the myth of the outlaw -- General Custer, hero or villian? -- Reagan, Hollywood, and American ideals -- Mythology as a path to wisdom.

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