Elizabeth Vandiver
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Stand in the Trench, Achilles: Classical Receptions in British Poetry of the Great War (Classical Presences) (2010) 17 Exemplare
Greek Tragedy: Part 2 6 Exemplare
Greek Tragedy: Part 1 5 Exemplare
Great Authors of the Western Literary Tradition, 2nd Edition, Part II: Literature of the Classical World 3 Exemplare
Herodotus: the father of history : Part 2 (The Great Courses) (2 discs) -- DVD #GC131 (no captions) 2 Exemplare
Plato 1 Exemplar
Menander and Hellenistic Literature 1 Exemplar
Catullus and Horace 1 Exemplar
Virgil 1 Exemplar
Ovid 1 Exemplar
Herodotus: The Father of History Part I 1 Exemplar
Livy, Tacitus, Plutarch 1 Exemplar
Petronius and Apuleius 1 Exemplar
The Gospels 1 Exemplar
Augustine 1 Exemplar
“Gods are Useful” 1 Exemplar
Thucydides 1 Exemplar
Aristophanes 1 Exemplar
Isaiah 1 Exemplar
Herodotus 1 Exemplar
Euripides 1 Exemplar
Sophocles 1 Exemplar
Aeschylus 1 Exemplar
Sappho and Pindar 1 Exemplar
Homer - The Odyssey 1 Exemplar
Homer - The Iliad 1 Exemplar
Job 1 Exemplar
The Epic of Gilgamesh 1 Exemplar
Near Eastern and Mediterranean Foundations 1 Exemplar
Herodotus's Account of Egypt 1 Exemplar
The Deuteronomistic History 1 Exemplar
Genesis and the Documentary Hypothesis 1 Exemplar
The Iliad od Homer - Course GUidebook 1 Exemplar
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- Elizabeth Vandiver (b. 1956) is a noted professor of classics at Whitman College in Washington. Her works include Heroes in Herodotus, and she has recorded numerous lectures on the classics for The Teaching Company. Vandiver received her undergraduate education from Shimer College, a Great Books school where she enrolled at age 16 through the early entrance program, and her doctorate from the University of Texas at Austin. (from Shimer College Wiki) (from Shimer College Wiki)
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So much information is to be found in this course! It covers Classical Mythology in both its Greek and Roman forms and gives us an overview and introduction to some of the main gods and heroes, along with a timeframe and ending with a summary of how classical mythology is present in many modern day books, films, etc.
Learning the actual story of these gods from mythology and some of their interactions was so interesting and, I realized, something I should have done many years ago. I have always enjoyed the watered down books of mythology, or the children's versions, and the movies that have appeared from time to time. And though I thought I had a very basic understanding of some of the main classical mythology stories, I did not. The factual historical tales are not for the faint of heart. They are filled with violence of every kind, sexual perversion and deviance galore, incest, cannibalism and you name it. And the descriptions get very graphic and unimaginably horrific and gross. Modern horror movies and serial killers have nothing on gods and heroes from classical mythology. I was shocked to find out that I had gone all these years without being aware of that. Or definitely the extent of that. And, by the way, "hero" does not always refer to a great personage of good intention. Great personage and amazing deeds perhaps, but they can be a bad person or bad deeds. All-in-all, I highly recommend Great Courses Classical Mythology. It is very educational and gives us so many facts about something that we should all be familiar with.… (mehr)