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149 - Making Sense of Greek Mythology

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Course Description: This course concentrates on a selection of narratives in an attempt to estimate how much of and in what ways the habitual texture of the Western mind has its origins and finds expressive form in Greek myth, e.g., attitudes about creation, power, self, society, gender, death, work, nature, art, mind. The lectures contain many images drawn from the history of Western art.

Course Instructor: In Professor Jack Peradotto’s forty-year academic career, he taught classical languages and literature at Western Washington University, Georgetown University, University of Texas at Austin, and the University at Buffalo, SUNY. He is the author of Classical Mythology: An Annotated Bibliographical Survey, and Man in the Middle Voice: Name and Narration in the Odyssey, as well as articles and reviews on Greek myth, epic and tragedy. He was named a Distinguished Teaching Professor by the SUNY Board of Trustees. He has lectured extensively on Smithsonian Study Cruises in the Mediterranean.
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