Displaying 1 of 1 2010 Format: DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials Title: Myth in human history / The Teaching Company. Publisher, Date: Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., [2010] Description: 6 videodiscs (approximately 1080 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (138 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.) NTSC video file DVD video region 1 Summary: "In 36 half-hour lectures, this course explores myths from around the world, focusing in particular on myths outside the Greco-Roman world..."--Guidebook. Series: Great Courses. Literature & English language. Western literature Great courses (videorecording) Literature & English language. Western literature. Subjects: Mythology. Gods. Goddesses. Educational films. Nonfiction films. Filmed lectures. Other Author: Voth, Grant L., teacher. Teaching Company. production company, publisher. Notes: Producer, Tony Hidenrick ; academic content supervisor, Marcy McDonald and Susan Dryer ; editors, Tony Hidenrick and Maureen Tumulty. Instructor: Professor Grant L. Voth, Monterey Peninsula College. DVD, NTSC. Contents: disc 1. Myth and meaning ; The continuing importance of myth ; Creation myths ; Mesopotamian creation--Enuma Elish ; Hebrew creation myths ; Emergence and world-parent creation myths -- disc 2. Cosmic egg and ex nihilo creation myths ; Earth-diver and dismembered God creation myths ; Mesopotamian and Hebrew flood myths ; Other flood myths ; Myths of cosmic destruction ; Greek and Norse pantheons -- disc 3. The great Goddess remembered? ; The Goddess--Inanna and Dumuzi ; The Goddess--Isis and Osiris ; The eclipse of the Goddess ; Shamans and vegetation Gods ; Sky Gods and earth Goddesses -- disc 4. Creator Gods ; Gods and Goddesses of India ; Hero myths ; Mythic heroes--Gilgamesh ; Mythic heroes--King Arthur ; Mythic heroes--Jason and the Argonauts -- disc 5. The monomyths of Rank and Campbell ; Mythic heroes--Mwindo ; Female heroes--Demeter and Hester Prynne ; Female heroes--Psyche and Beauty ; The trickster in mythology ; Tricksters from around the world -- disc 6. Native American tricksters ; African tricksters ; Mythic tricksters--Eshu and Legba ; The places of myth--rocks and lakes ; The places of myth--mountains ; The places of myth--sacred trees. ISBN: 9781598036701 159803670X 9781598036701 Publisher Number: ID2332A-01 2332 Other Number: 664362418 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 528914 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: GREAT DVD 201.3 Myth in Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
