| Description |
6 videodiscs (approximately 1080 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (138 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.) |
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NTSC rda |
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video file DVD video region 1 |
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Filmed lectures lcgft |
| Series |
Great Courses. Literature & English language. Western literature |
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Great courses (DVD). Literature & English language. Western literature.
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| System Details |
DVD, NTSC. |
| Performer |
Instructor: Professor Grant L. Voth, Monterey Peninsula College. |
| Credits |
Producer, Tony Hidenrick ; academic content supervisor, Marcy McDonald and Susan Dryer ; editors, Tony Hidenrick and Maureen Tumulty. |
| Summary |
"In 36 half-hour lectures, this course explores myths from around the world, focusing in particular on myths outside the Greco-Roman world..."--Guidebook. |
| Contents |
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. |
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Mythology.
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Gods.
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Goddesses.
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mythology (literary genre) (CStmoGRI)aat300055985
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Goddesses. (OCoLC)fst00944180
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Gods. (OCoLC)fst00944223
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Mythology. (OCoLC)fst01031701
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| Genre/Form |
Educational films.
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lectures. (CStmoGRI)aatgf300026673
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Educational films. (OCoLC)fst01726235
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Lectures. (OCoLC)fst01919935
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Nonfiction films. (OCoLC)fst01710269
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Lectures.
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Educational films.
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Nonfiction films.
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| Added Author |
Voth, Grant L., teacher.
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Teaching Company. production company, publisher.
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| ISBN |
9781598036701 |
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159803670X |
| Music No. |
ID2332A-01 Teaching Co. |
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2332 Teaching Co. |
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