Life Lessons From the Great Myths

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Compact discs.
Disc 1: lecture 1. Heroes, history and myth -- lecture 2. The myth of Troy -- lecture 3. Homer and mythology -- lecture 4. In search of historical Troy -- lecture 5. Life lessons from the Trojan War. Disc 2. lecture 6. Jason and the golden fleece -- lecture 7. Theseus and the minotaur -- lecture 8. Myth and Athenian drama -- lecture 9. Fate and free will in mythology -- lecture 10. Atlantis, fact or fiction? -- lecture 11. The epic of Gilgamesh -- lecture 12. Gilgamesh and history.
Disc 3. lecture 13. The book of Genesis -- lecture 14. Exodus, the foundation of the Jewish people -- lecture 15. The historical power of biblical stories -- lecture 16. Aeneas, Rome's national hero -- lecture 17. Romulus, the founder of Rome -- lecture 18. Lays of ancient Rome -- Disc 4. lecture 19. Alexander the Great in history -- lecture 20. Alexander the Great in romance -- lecture 21. Beowulf, historical roots and heroic values -- lecture 22. King Arthur, fact or fiction ? -- lecture 23. In search of the holy grail -- lecture 24. Vikings in America?
Disc 5. lecture 25. Vergil the magician -- lecture 26. The Battle of Kosovo -- lecture 27. Julius Caesar in history -- lecture 28. Napoleon and the mantle of Caesar -- lecture 29. Arminius and German mythology -- lecture 30. Teuton versus Roman. Disc 6. -- lecture 31. Davy Crockett and the myth of the frontier -- lecture 32. The Alamo -- lecture 33. Jesse James and the myth of the outlaw -- lecture 34. General Custer, hero or villian? -- lecture 35. Reagan, Hollywood, and American ideals -- lecture 36. Mythology as a path to wisdom.
J. Rufus Fears, lecturer.
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, ultimatelycrossing the Atlantic to consider the myths of America created from the oldest legends of humankind.

COMMUNITY REVIEWS

Life Lessons from the Great Myths submitted by patricia alvis on August 25, 2016, 7:46pm In the Great Course Series, but more properly this one a Not so Great Course. Thirty six lectures on great heroes of legend and history culminating in the most modern example--Ronald Reagan! How the mighty are fallen. This lecturer is just not a very effective speaker, and his thesis is so muddled that at times my attention wandered. He acknowledges that some of what was heroic in its time would not pass muster now, so one is left to assume that aggressiveness and self-interest are admirable qualities however exercised. I'm not inspired.

Interesting Ideas, But... submitted by timdufresne on July 12, 2018, 12:24pm I'm not sure how I felt about this series. I found myself wishing for a more straightforward course on mythology. One with less of a focus on the lessons eluded to in the title and more on thinking critically about these narratives and myths. Felt a little too much like a "Gilgamesh in the Boardroom" kind of thing, which wasn't what I was looking for.