Classics and Mediterranean Studies 045 Course Outline

Lecture 1: Classical Myth

Lecture 2: Genesis

Lecture 3: Hesiod and Oral Poetry

Lecture 4: Floods

Lecture 5: Apollo and Artemis

Lecture 6: Hermes

Lecture 7: Thebes

Lecture 8: Bacchae

Lecture 9: Oedipus the King

Lecture 10: Freud and Psychoanalysis

Lecture 11: Antigone

Lecture 12: Perseus and the Homeric Hymn to Demeter

Lecture 13: Ovid 5

Lecture 14: Arachne, Philomela, Jason

Lecture 15: Euripides' Medea

Lecture 16: Theseus and Heracles

Lecture 17: Pygmalion

Lecture 18: Iliad Intro, 1, 2, and 6

Lecture 19: Iliad 9, 16, 18

Lecture 20: The Shield of Achilles

Lecture 21: Aeneid II

Lecture 22: Odyssey Intro, 1, 6, 8, 9

Lecture 23: Odyssey 10, 11, 12, 13

Lecture 24: CAMS 45 Goes to Hell

Lecture 25: Odyssey Concluded

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statue of Apollo
Apollo


Hermes is the one "of many shifts, blindly cunning, a robber, a cattle driver, a bringer of dreams, a watcher by night, a thief at the gates, one who was soon to show forth wonderful deeds among the deathless gods."

Homeric hymn to Hermes


image of Achilles and Patrocius
Achilles and Patroclus

Achilles bandages the arm of his friend Patroclus. The latter turns his head aside to avoid the sight of blood and of Achilles grimacing at his pain.

Wikipedia