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BBC Adventures in Human Evolution
Human Prehistory 

Myth: lecture notes

Critical Thinking

Gilgamesh Questions
Gilgamesh and Mesopotamia (summary)
Cuneiform
Gilgamesh:
Storytelling and the Meaning of Life

Cuneiform Tablet

A Resource page: Gilgamesh


Other Creation Stories
Genesis Questions

Hans Baldung Grien's The Flood, 1516

The First Murder
The Story of Joseph
Job

Flood Stories from around the World

Homer Pages:
Homer
The Judgment of Paris
The Wedding of Peleus and Thetis
Down through the Ages:
The Mask of Agamemnon
The House of Atreus

Nietzsche (Dionysus/Apollo)

Apollo
Dionysus

Zeus (summary)
Zeus (text references)
Athena
Map of Homeric World
Homer and the Greek Renaissance

Prelude to the Iliad
Achilles
Achilles (extended simile)
Books 6 and 9
Book 9
Books 16-20
Hephaestus
The Bow
Books 21-24
gods and goddesses
Questions
Achilles' Shield

 IliadOn-line
Achilles fights the
RIVER

The Greeks_PBS Resource Page

Prelude to The Odyssey
Odyssey: a summary
Odyssey: Study Questions
Study and Teaching Guide to the Odyssey

Images of the Trojan War
Homer Homepage (Web index)
Pronunciation Guide
Greek to English Dictionary
Definition:
feudal system

Thucydides:
Thucydides
"Melian Dialogue" (416 BC)
Attack on Mycalessus (413 BC)

War:
Peloponnesian War (431-404 B. C. )
Wars: 20th Century
High Memetic/ low memetic
Why Men Love War
Achilles in Vietnam
My Lai (1968)

Imperialism:
To the American People: Mark Twain
Statement of Anti-Imperialism signed by Mark Twain
War Poets

Greek Tragedy:

Judical System of Early Athens
ATHENS
The Acropolis of Athens

MAP of Athenian Empire

Greek Tragedy
Tragic Vision

Oresteia Questions
Oresteia: a summary
Hegel's dialectic

Euripides: The Trojan Women
Hecuba
The Trojan Women (summary)
Trojan Women (Study Guide)

Oedipus
Oedipus and the Sphinx (detailed discussion of the sphinx)
Euripides

Antigone
Antigone


Sophocles
Ode to Man
Pylades and Orestes

Medea
Jason and the Argonauts

Background on Plato's Apology
Commentary on Plato's
Apology of Socrates

Tragedy Questions

The Romans:

Roman Civilization (overview)
Individualism and Western Culture
The Aeneid (overview)
More on The Aeneid (Required reading)
In the Underworld (a brief yet necessary addition to our abridged text)
Laocoon, his sons, and the Snakes (image)
El Greco's Laocoon 1601 (image)

The Flight of Aeneas from Troy by Barocci (image)
Roman Mythology (Resource: primarily definitions of Roman Gods)
Virgil: Web Resource
Map of Aeneas' journey (image)

Film Studies:
Casablanca
Casablanca Study Guide
Casablanca and the West
Who's Who in Casablanca
Vincent's Casablanca Page

War Films
Survey of the Combat Film
W.W.II--propaganda posters  
1944 Movie Poster, Hitchcock's
Lifeboat: Who is missing from the poster and why?
Film Reviews from the 1940s

Film and Ideology
Message Of Mythology
Learning Objectives: westerns
Basic Elements of the Western Drama
Western Films
Genre and Gender

Horse Operas
Cowboys, Power, Politics, and Crime
Gunsmoke and Mirrors
Multicultural American West
The Western
Making it Their Own:
Women in the West

Myth and Nature:

URLs to help us overcome ignorance.

The Ideological Siege on Nature: a summary of Soulé's essay on how mythology disguises the physical siege on nature.
Scientific View of Living Nature

Hern, Warren M. "Is human culture carcinogenic for uncontrolled population growth and ecological destruction?"

Roderick Nash: The Rights of Nature
Tragedy of Commons
The Land Ethic:

The Writings of John Muir
Antigone: Sophocles'
Ode to Man
Terry Tempest Williams:
The Erotic Landscape
Eroticism:
Carlos Fuentes
Science and the Humanities

Ovid and the gender principles
Poussin's
Apollo and Daphne (1664)

Animals And Mythology:
Shepard on Wolves
Ted Hughes:
Crow's First Lesson
Shepard:
On birds
Shepard on Dogs
Shepard on Deer
Shepard on Snakes
Robinson Jeffers,
"Hurt Hawks"
D. H. Lawrence on
Self-Pity
Primal mythology--
Native American Stories

 Ovid:
Study Guide for OVID
Study Guide--Book Two: Phaethon
A commentary on Ovid
Rubens
The Head of Medusa
Bernini:
The Head of Medusa
Book VI-VII
Book X: Orpheus and Eurydice; Ganymede
Underworld
Ovid Book XIII: Ajax and Achilles' Armor; Ulysses and Achilles' Armor
Ovid, Book IX for a description of
Philoctetes receiving Hercules' bow and arrows at Hercules' funeral

 RANCH LIFE AND THE HUNTING TRAIL--Theodore Roosevelt

Humanities Resources:

Humanities resource
Websites for the Humanities Classroom
Military History: Ancient
Science and Human Values: Plato

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