Myth in human history [videorecording] /
Grant L. Voth.
- Chantilly, VA : Teaching Co., 2010.
- 6 videodiscs (ca. 1080 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (138 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.)
- Great Courses. Literature & English language .
- Great Courses (DVD). Literature & English language. .
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.
Producer, Tony Hidenrick ; academic content supervisor, Marcy McDonald and Susan Dryer ; editors, Tony Hidenrick and Maureen Tumulty. 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.
"In 36 half-hour lectures, this course explores myths from around the world, focusing in particular on myths outside the Greco-Roman world..."--Guidebook.