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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