DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Myth in human history / The Teaching Company.

Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., [2010]

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

"In 36 half-hour lectures, this course explores myths from around the world, focusing in particular on myths outside the Greco-Roman world..."--Guidebook.

Great Courses. Literature & English language. Western literature

Great courses (videorecording) Literature & English language. Western literature.

Mythology.

Gods.

Goddesses.

Educational films.

Nonfiction films.

Filmed lectures.

Voth, Grant L., teacher.

Teaching Company. production company, publisher.

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.

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.

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